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Calvin Asks: Time to throw in the towel?

CalvinTheEngineer
I’m a young professional engineer and have been working with my current employer for the past seven years. I’ve applied for a few different internal roles during my time here that I feel would improve my personal and professional development but on every occasion I’ve been turned down.


I’ve been keeping up to date with my CPD and have attended many events and conferences etc related to my industry and have been on many internal training courses. However, the feedback I’m getting is that I don’t have enough experience for the roles I’m applying for? But how do I move forward with my career if I keep getting turned down for the roles that will give me more experience?


Is it time to throw in the towel and start looking to move to another employer or should I stick it out for a bit longer?


Overlooked and frustrated - Manchester

 
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    Calvin T. Engineer:

    I’m a young professional engineer and have been working with my current employer for the past seven years. I’ve applied for a few different internal roles during my time here that I feel would improve my personal and professional development but on every occasion I’ve been turned down.


    I’ve been keeping up to date with my CPD and have attended many events and conferences etc related to my industry and have been on many internal training courses. However, the feedback I’m getting is that I don’t have enough experience for the roles I’m applying for? But how do I move forward with my career if I keep getting turned down for the roles that will give me more experience?


    Is it time to throw in the towel and start looking to move to another employer or should I stick it out for a bit longer?


    Overlooked and frustrated - Manchester




    It will probably help to look at the people who were successful in the positions that you applied for. Try to find out why they were chosen rather than you were. If there are good reasons then that explains it but if the successful candidates have genuinely questionable credentials then it could point in a direction that management are more interested in croneyism or promoting mediocrity rather than merit, or that they somehow distrust you.


    What you don't want to be doing is working in a place where the management take you as a fool.


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    Calvin T. Engineer:

    I’m a young professional engineer and have been working with my current employer for the past seven years. I’ve applied for a few different internal roles during my time here that I feel would improve my personal and professional development but on every occasion I’ve been turned down.


    I’ve been keeping up to date with my CPD and have attended many events and conferences etc related to my industry and have been on many internal training courses. However, the feedback I’m getting is that I don’t have enough experience for the roles I’m applying for? But how do I move forward with my career if I keep getting turned down for the roles that will give me more experience?


    Is it time to throw in the towel and start looking to move to another employer or should I stick it out for a bit longer?


    Overlooked and frustrated - Manchester




    It will probably help to look at the people who were successful in the positions that you applied for. Try to find out why they were chosen rather than you were. If there are good reasons then that explains it but if the successful candidates have genuinely questionable credentials then it could point in a direction that management are more interested in croneyism or promoting mediocrity rather than merit, or that they somehow distrust you.


    What you don't want to be doing is working in a place where the management take you as a fool.


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