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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 .

  • 0 in reply to Artem Kuznetsov

    Hi,

    No, I am a trained volunteer Fellowship Adviser (although due to other workload I'm not currently taking on any cases except in my own company) but I hold no committee role in the IET. But anyway, I don't see any contradiction - we're all saying that your supporters need to show that they actually have known that you did what you said you did throughout the period you are providing the evidence for that they are supporting. It really is as simple as that. They need to be able to say: "the applicant is saying they did xxx work with xxx impact from 20xx to 20xx, I knew their work throughout that time and I can support that they did this".

    This often needs more than one supporter, for example in my application I needed to use one supporter who had known my work in one period, and another who had known my work in another period. 

    Finally, I do not suggest arguing with the IET on points of wording in a Fellowship application. The award of FIET is an honour awarded strictly at the IETs judgement, it is not a right based on "tick boxes". So it is much better to engage with them than to argue with them.

    The one quote I am very happy for you to quote on to the IET as my advice to you is this one:

    Andy Millar said:
    However I would also strongly suggest, if you haven't already, that before you do this you consult a Fellowship Adviser at the IET to review your application. https://pra.theiet.org/search-advisor  They can also offer an opinion on your choice of second supporter.

    A Fellowship Adviser can also review the whole application in detail and discuss this in confidence with you. Any advice or guidance on these forums can only be general, and specific cases my differ,

    Good luck,

    Andy

  • 0 in reply to Andy Millar
    Andy Millar said:
    I don't see any contradiction - we're all saying that your supporters need to show that they actually have known that you did what you said you did throughout the period you are providing the evidence for that they are supporting. It really is as simple as that

    No, the IET support team clearly said that this is not enough and that I should professionally and personally know the person for at least 2 years. It's different from what you wrote.

  • 0 in reply to Andy Millar
    Andy Millar said:
    for example in my application I needed to use one supporter who had known my work in one period, and another who had known my work in another period

    It seems the process has changed since you applied. They no longer allow sharing verification across supporters, and they ask each supporter to verify all the information.

    I asked the IET support team if "each supporter needs to confirm all of the criteria I’m applying under". They clearly answered "Yes, both supporters need to be able to verify all provided information".

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