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in need of IET Fellow to Support my IET Fellow membership application

Arindam Mukherjee

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 .

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    Hi,

    I appreciate the difficulty here, the wording is:

    "Your two supporters must be people of recognised repute who know you professionally and can vouch for the evidence you provide. One should be an IET Fellow or a Fellow of any Professional Engineering Institution"

    The challenge is "can vouch for the evidence you provide", which is why it needs to be someone who knows you well enough to know that you did what you said you did.

    If you absolutely do not have a professional relationship with any fellow of any any UK institution then I suggest you contact fellowship@theiet.org  They are experienced in engaging with people who are in this situation and working to find a way through it.

    The one suggestion I would make is that an effective way of gaining potential supporters is to engage in IET activities - or the activities of any of the other UK PEIs. It won't be an instant answer, for the reasons above fellows you meet won't be able to endorse you until they have known you for a while, however it is the way that many of us met our future supporters. 

    Thanks,

    Andy

  • 0 in reply to Andy Millar

    Dear Andy,

    Thank you so much for your response. As you mentioned, I did reach out to the Fellowship team and even spoke with them directly to explain my situation, given that I don’t have any IET Fellows within my close professional circle who have worked with me.

    The IET Fellow who endorsed my application is from the same line of work, and therefore had a strong understanding of the projects I have delivered. On that basis, they kindly agreed to support my case. I explained this in detail to the application team, but unfortunately they have declined, stating that because the Fellow has not worked with me directly, they cannot accept their endorsement. They also confirmed that they are unable to support me in finding another IET Fellow for my applications .. So as of now its a dead end for me ..

    Quite interestingly i happened to engage with few IETF and they have received their fellowship without any IETF endorsement ,, They mentioned that their managers in the senior level has endorsed their application and they were accepted and even granted the fellowship .. 

  • 0 in reply to Arindam Mukherjee

    Hi,

    Yes, I'm not surprised at that, the most important issues are that the supporter has a level of reputation in the industry and that they know you well. Of course in these cases there will be a judgement made if they are not Fellows as to whether thewy hold a similar level of repute in the industry.

    Thanks,

    Andy

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  • 0 in reply to Arindam Mukherjee

    Hi,

    Yes, I'm not surprised at that, the most important issues are that the supporter has a level of reputation in the industry and that they know you well. Of course in these cases there will be a judgement made if they are not Fellows as to whether thewy hold a similar level of repute in the industry.

    Thanks,

    Andy

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