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Stephan
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How can someone transition from a career in Quality Assurance to becoming an Auditor?
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Cathy Gladwin
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Absolutely! Use your experience and insight to become an auditor - your career in QA is exactly where you get the competences needed to audit. There's training and audit experience too of course. Now it also depends on what level of auditing you'd like to do.
Just briefly:
1st party - internal auditing
2nd party - supplier audits
3rd party - certification audits
For 1st and 2nd party auditing, we offer a 1-day STC L3 Auditing & Inspection course and also a 2-day BRCGS Internal Auditor course.
For 3rd party auditing, you will need a 5-day lead auditor qualification and also training to the latest version of whichever standard you're working with.
We elaborate more on the process to become a BRCGS lead auditor for a certification body here.
Just briefly:
1st party - internal auditing
2nd party - supplier audits
3rd party - certification audits
For 1st and 2nd party auditing, we offer a 1-day STC L3 Auditing & Inspection course and also a 2-day BRCGS Internal Auditor course.
For 3rd party auditing, you will need a 5-day lead auditor qualification and also training to the latest version of whichever standard you're working with.
We elaborate more on the process to become a BRCGS lead auditor for a certification body here.
Cathy Gladwin
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Hello again, just to follow on (as this is a question we get asked a lot), I made a video explaining the various Auditor courses that we offer.
I should also clarify that these courses are typically for manufacturing industries (though our Level 3 STC Auditing & Inspection course is applicable to any business.
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Chisala Ng'andwe
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We need to keep an eye on the upcoming GFSI benchmarks. There is currently quite a bit of deliberation going on especially if one is looking into becoming a 3rd party auditor
Cathy Gladwin
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Indeed @Chisala Ng'andwe and I appreciate the news you and @Oskar STC & QTC shared on your return from the recent BRCGS Connect conference in Milan where they shared the news that GFSI will now require BRCGS 3rd party auditors to have a degree. Very challenging indeed when it's already very difficult to bring new auditors through the approval process.
Going right back to the original question in this thread, @Kristy posted a useful guide right here: https://1stc.uk/forum/threads/how-can-i-become-a-brcgs-auditor.98/
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Steph
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@Cathy Gladwin, transition is fantastic but can be scary! Having a mentor who understands this can be incredibly valuable and support the process - a bit like learning to walk - we all need someone there with their hands ready!