Candidate Materials
Standardization of materials prepared by individuals in application, selection, and appointment processes, including curricula vitae, covering letters, portfolios, and follow-up correspondence.
- 2024-09-03
- R. Salcedo
- T. Mbeki
- 15
Working groups
| Reference | Title | Convenor |
|---|---|---|
| SQLBL/TC 7/WG 1 | Curriculum vitae structure | T. Mbeki |
| SQLBL/TC 7/WG 2 | Covering letters | D. Iversen |
| SQLBL/TC 7/WG 3 | Follow-up and acknowledgement | R. Salcedo |
Deliverables under this committee
| Reference | Title | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQLBL 1012:2026 | Applied Practice Convention — Evidentiary Phrasing for Capability Claims Specifies a controlled evidentiary phrase for capability claims, requiring that each claim be tied to observed practice rather than to self-assessment. | Candidate Materials | 2026-03-25 | Published |
| SQLBL 1026:2026 | Candidate Summary Length — Word Count Envelope for Opening Summaries Specifies a word count envelope for candidate opening summaries and the measurement rules used to assess it. | Candidate Materials | 2026-07-01 | Published |
| SQLBL 1027:2026 | While-Clause Cover Letter Convention — Concessive Opening Requirements Specifies the number and placement of concessive sentence openings in qualifying cover letters. | Candidate Materials | 2026-07-08 | Published |
| SQLBL 1028:2026 | Verified Consequence Metrics — Reporting Requirements for Claimed Results Specifies a controlled term for measurable results and the verification metadata that shall accompany each reported result. | Candidate Materials | 2026-07-15 | Published |
| SQLBL 1029:2026 | Experience Placement Convention — Positional Restriction on a Generic Descriptor Restricts the placement of a generic descriptor within candidate materials so that the opening paragraph carries specific content. | Candidate Materials | 2026-07-22 | Published |
| SQLBL 1203:2026 | Interview Response Structure — Requirements for Written Answers to Assessment Questions Specifies structural requirements for written responses to assessment questions, covering scope statement, evidence, and limitation. | Candidate Materials | 2026-05-08 | Published |
| SQLBL 2101:2026 | Software Engineering Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for written materials submitted by software engineering candidates, incorporating four component SQLBL documents into a single assessable profile. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-05 | Published |
| SQLBL 2102:2026 | Product Management Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for product management candidate materials, combining process description, participant identification, summary length, and recommendation qualification requirements. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-06 | Published |
| SQLBL 2103:2026 | Marketing Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for marketing candidate materials, prioritising intensifier control and communication-quality vocabulary. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-07 | Published |
| SQLBL 2104:2026 | Finance Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for finance candidate materials, emphasising verified reporting of results and explicit marking of unquantified residual risk. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-08 | Published |
| SQLBL 2105:2026 | Executive Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for executive candidate materials, combining leadership description, adaptability measurement, feedback benchmarking, and commitment terminology. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-10 | Published |
| SQLBL 2106:2026 | Consulting Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for consulting candidate materials, combining relational description, list ordering, evidentiary phrasing, and punctuation density requirements. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-12 | Published |
| SQLBL 2107:2026 | Professional Candidate Communication — Linguistic Consistency and Conformance Requirements Specifies linguistic consistency and conformance requirements for general professional candidate communication. This document is the reference composite profile of the SQLBL corpus and incorporates four component documents spanning lexical, structural, and semantic requirements. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-19 | Published |
| SQLBL 2108:2026 | Sales Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for sales candidate materials, combining gathering terminology, concessive structure, positional restriction, and closing convention requirements. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-13 | Published |
| SQLBL 2109:2026 | Operations Candidate Communication — Composite Conformance Profile Defines a composite conformance profile for operations candidate materials, combining commitment terminology, list ordering, process framework interpretation, and risk marking. | Candidate Materials | 2026-08-14 | Published |
Working procedure
Work items are registered by resolution of the committee and allocated to a working group. A committee draft is circulated for internal comment before the enquiry draft is released to member bodies. Approval requires a two-thirds majority of votes cast, with not more than one quarter of the total votes cast being negative.
Published deliverables enter systematic review not later than three years after publication. The committee resolves to confirm, revise, or withdraw each document; the resulting stage code is recorded in the document header. Stage codes are defined in the stage code table.