I have been a lurker on this forum for many years and this is my first post.  Health and happiness to all.


After years of procrastination, largely due to some very difficult personal circumstances, I submitted my CEng application four months ago and I had my CEng interview yesterday.  Whether or not I was successful will remain to be seen and I should find out in a few weeks.  However, I found the process fair and quite enjoyable.  Just like a chat between three engineers (yourself and the two interviewers with a facilitator). They were friendly, polite, professional and encouraging and they know you will be slightly nervous.   Be advised though that you need to be prepared to rigourously defend and justify your assertions in any presentation you deliver.  They can and will challenge you.  You would be so challenged in the workplace and they want to know how you can deal with objections.


The area where I kick myself slightly is that I did use the term "we" a few times instead of "I".   I prepared myself numerous times ahead of time to remind myself to use "I" and I still fell back to the "we" at times.  I'm a modest man and it is made further difficult because in most workplaces we are constantly encouraged to be team players so the 'I" word is not so heavily used in the real world workplace.  Fingers crossed they let me off for that.


But bravo to the IET and the interview process.  I was impressed.  If I fail, then I fail and that is down to me, not the interviewers.


Thought I'd share for folks prepping themselves for the interview.


Stay safe, Stephen