Hi All , I recently applied for IET Fellowship with two supporters, one being an IET Fellow and the other my direct manager , unfortunately the fellowship team declined the IET fellow supporter , stating that they were no professionally connected with me .
i find this unclear , as i had explained my field of work , experience and projects in detail to the supporter before they agreed to endorse me and that itself its the first line of pass through and i don't understand what does it means by professionally connected , definitely the supporter has not worked with me before and that would be case for the majority of the IETF application where their IETF supporter has never worked with them .
Has anyone else faced a similar situation and how did you resolve it ? Alternatively , if any IET fellows here would be willing to support my application , i will be truly grateful for your guidance and endorsement , thank you in advance .