May I ask how long your actual career history is?  This should be in the region of 5-7 pages long. The rest can be supporting material.  A long application with a career history of 14 pagers runs a real risk of being returned to you as being too long. Its not reasonable to ask assessors to read though a 14 page career history. 

Thanks for responding. So my career is 11 years so far. The actual employment history was 8 pages long and my CPD took almost two pages.

Also  I made a mistake clicking the verification option and now I can't edit anymore. Its in read-only. Do you know if this is something they can release for me to edit and make changes?  

Alfred Osho said:

The actual employment history was 8 pages long

Hi,

You need to get that down to 5 pages, you've probably gone into too much technical detail or included too many projects. It doesn't matter how long your career is, enough information for CEng can always be given in 5 pages! All you are trying to show is one example of each of the competences. Part of competence D is checking that you can write briefly and precisely, which is partly why you will be marked down for an overlong application.

I'd suggest contacting a PRA, they'll be able to tell you which bits you've given too much detail on:

https://www.theiet.org/career/professional-registration/getting-help-with-your-application/find-a-professional-registration-advisor

Alfred Osho said:

Also  I made a mistake clicking the verification option and now I can't edit anymore. Its in read-only. Do you know if this is something they can release for me to edit and make changes? 

That I can't help with - I suggest you contact rssu@theiet.org hopefully they should be able to.

Thanks,

Andy

Thank you for your feedback. I managed to get the total to 9 pages and employment history to 6 pages. Appreciate your comments 

Two decades career history across three career blocks of different industries and I came to 10,000 words.

That is way too long! You don't need to record everything you did, just enough to show you meet the competences, you only need to meet each competence once.

Look at it this way, you're trying to demonstrate to the assessors that you can give them the critical information they need clearly.

Or another way, if someone tells you the same thing 10 times do you thank them, or do you say "you didn't need to repeat yourself, I understood you the first time?" It does get a bit like that reading some applications.

Hope that helps,

Andy

Understood, appreciate your feedback.

No problem, it is the most common issue I see as a PRA. 

The other thing I perhaps should have mentioned is that most of your evidence for meeting the competences should come from your current role, then for your early roles you're just showing how you got there. So the key for roles before your current role is "in this role I gained experience in / learned about..." You don't need to say much about what you actually did - just enough to make it credible that you did gain that learning / experience there.

Thanks,

Andy