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Professional Registration Interview Delay

Eddy

I have diligently completed my Chartered Engineer (CEng) application and promptly paid the required fee. After my application was processed, I reached the critical interview stage. However, I have now been waiting for over 15 weeks for my Professional Registration Interview, and I find this prolonged delay concerning.

Is it typical for the scheduling process to take this long? I value the communication I received from the Professional Registration Assessment Executive in December, but I have yet to receive any updates on the interview date.

Timely progress on this process is essential to my professional development, and I kindly request your assistance in clarifying the reasons for the extended timeline. Your support in expediting this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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    Hi Eddy,

    I made my application on 10th March 2025, progressed thru the appropriate diligence and been waiting on my PRI since 8th August when I received an email to say everything progressed to PRI. Only this week did I receive an offer of an interview on the 20th March next month. So that's over a year. I know been changes/updates at the IET and a backlog, and for myself didn't chase them too much as I know depends on volunteers with the correct training and alignment.

    Hopefully your PRI will happen sooner than my timescale,

    Cheers GTB 

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    Good Evening Eddy,

    Sorry about the delay. On the surface, it's a service, a form, and a fee, a booking system, a process that can be analysed, management consultants often study processes and try to streamline them.

    However Eddy, PRIs rely entirely on matching engineering peers, <unpaid> volunteers who donate their time, skills and sometimes, contemplation over a recommendation. There is a lot more involved than a tick list, or there should be.

    Our latest challenge is AI for the applications, meaning the PRI is more important than ever for establishing <authenticity> which again, needs special skills.

    It's only a personal view, but I think PRIs in particular attracts a limited range of personality types making volunteers harder to find. Similarly, I think there's been a realisation that career and socio-economic pressures are making volunteers harder to find, book for a PRI, fulfill a PRI on the day - and retain once training has been invested by the IET.

    At the same time, a volunteer Interviewer is extremely accountable and has just as many codes and guides to comply with as a staff member doing the same task.

    Incidentally I've done 400 PRIs for the IET, about 800 overall.

    I hope you get your PRI soon, and that this shines light on the invisible Interviewers and Assessors.

    Chris

        

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    Good Evening Eddy,

    Sorry about the delay. On the surface, it's a service, a form, and a fee, a booking system, a process that can be analysed, management consultants often study processes and try to streamline them.

    However Eddy, PRIs rely entirely on matching engineering peers, <unpaid> volunteers who donate their time, skills and sometimes, contemplation over a recommendation. There is a lot more involved than a tick list, or there should be.

    Our latest challenge is AI for the applications, meaning the PRI is more important than ever for establishing <authenticity> which again, needs special skills.

    It's only a personal view, but I think PRIs in particular attracts a limited range of personality types making volunteers harder to find. Similarly, I think there's been a realisation that career and socio-economic pressures are making volunteers harder to find, book for a PRI, fulfill a PRI on the day - and retain once training has been invested by the IET.

    At the same time, a volunteer Interviewer is extremely accountable and has just as many codes and guides to comply with as a staff member doing the same task.

    Incidentally I've done 400 PRIs for the IET, about 800 overall.

    I hope you get your PRI soon, and that this shines light on the invisible Interviewers and Assessors.

    Chris

        

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