Do you hold any patents?

Do you hold a PhD degree and, if you do, have you published papers over the past 5 years?

Are there publications in the media that you authored or that mention your name?

Have you been active in the digital community outside of your primary occupation? Over the past five years, did you mentor others, give papers or lectures, taught college level courses or contributed to open source projects?

Can your activity be directly linked to the financial or technical characteristics of a product or a service at a company where you were employed?

Did you take part in or led projects that directly impacted a company’s financial performance?

Are you remunerated higher than an average specialist in your area?

Over the past 5 years, did you occupy senior or C-level positions at a company?

In the last 5 years, were you employed as a digital tech specialist at a non-digital company?

Over the past 5 years, were you employed at a product led digital business (a business that generates most of its revenue by selling its own product such as an app)?