14th April 2011, 02:02 PM
A detailed CV is not quite the same thing as a CPD log, as a Health and Safety Plan is not the same as a Risk Assessment...
Jack, training courses are not essential to CPD - it's anything that you might do might to keep yourself up to speed or enhance your knowledge etc. Not that there is anything wrong with a training course provided it's a real one, not a fake thing that people ar econned into paying for in the mistaken belief that they need it for CPD, which I presume is what you're alluding to. In the construction industry, where CPD has been around for architects and surveyors for years, all sorts of suppliers and manufacturers came up with little "CPD seminars" on a topic related to their field - often they will visit your office at lunch time and provide sandwiches etc while giving a Powerpoint talk on their latest products. This all counts as CPD! I recall a lunchtime one on brick parapet copings, and a happy afternoon at White Hart Lane learning about fire extinguishers....... so yes, it is all a bit of a con and waste of time, but doesn't necessarily cost anything.
Jack, training courses are not essential to CPD - it's anything that you might do might to keep yourself up to speed or enhance your knowledge etc. Not that there is anything wrong with a training course provided it's a real one, not a fake thing that people ar econned into paying for in the mistaken belief that they need it for CPD, which I presume is what you're alluding to. In the construction industry, where CPD has been around for architects and surveyors for years, all sorts of suppliers and manufacturers came up with little "CPD seminars" on a topic related to their field - often they will visit your office at lunch time and provide sandwiches etc while giving a Powerpoint talk on their latest products. This all counts as CPD! I recall a lunchtime one on brick parapet copings, and a happy afternoon at White Hart Lane learning about fire extinguishers....... so yes, it is all a bit of a con and waste of time, but doesn't necessarily cost anything.