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My CPD Return has been Not Reviewed

Simon Barker
I got a really strange email from the IET today, saying:

It is our pleasure to confirm that your CPD Return has been Not Reviewed - Completed for Year: 2018



If you have any comments please direct them to  using Career Manager

 



There is some really odd wording in there.  I guess having your CPD return "Not Reviewed" is like the tax man not reviewing your tax return for the year - it's considered a good thing.  Something seems to have gone wrong with the next line, too.  It looks like there is supposed to be some contact information there, that somebody forgot to fill in.


I have seen phishing emails with better grammar than that.
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    Hi Simon,


    And just to add to David's excellent note, a good way to think about this is - how many new projects have you worked on over the last year? What did you have to do to get "up to speed"? Slightly different technologies, or slightly different applications all need learning. Two days getting "into" a new project is almost half your annual CPD! Or a one day visit to a supplier of new equipment or customer with a potential new application could be a quarter of it. 


    And there's all the soft skills development, perhaps attending client meetings with sales staff where you realised a bit more about how to deal with clients. Or similar with procurement staff and how to deal with suppliers. Or working with an experienced manager and realising how to resolve a staff conflict. Or taking part on an interview panel for the first time - or not for the first time but in a different situation.


    And even if you are doing exactly the same tasks with exactly the same people with exactly the same technology for exactly the same applications (which personally would be making me want to look for another job ? ) the world around is still changing, I'll bet your employers have new procedures you've needed to follow, and very often there will also be new legal or technical requirements to follow.


    I'd suggest that about the only way not to achieve 30 hours CPD in a year is to retire and spend all day watching football on TV...I was originally going to write my usual example of "leave engineering and run a sweet shop" but actually there's a lot of transferable skills to be achieved from doing that!


    Bottom line...Don't Panic!


    Cheers,


    Andy
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    Hi Simon,


    And just to add to David's excellent note, a good way to think about this is - how many new projects have you worked on over the last year? What did you have to do to get "up to speed"? Slightly different technologies, or slightly different applications all need learning. Two days getting "into" a new project is almost half your annual CPD! Or a one day visit to a supplier of new equipment or customer with a potential new application could be a quarter of it. 


    And there's all the soft skills development, perhaps attending client meetings with sales staff where you realised a bit more about how to deal with clients. Or similar with procurement staff and how to deal with suppliers. Or working with an experienced manager and realising how to resolve a staff conflict. Or taking part on an interview panel for the first time - or not for the first time but in a different situation.


    And even if you are doing exactly the same tasks with exactly the same people with exactly the same technology for exactly the same applications (which personally would be making me want to look for another job ? ) the world around is still changing, I'll bet your employers have new procedures you've needed to follow, and very often there will also be new legal or technical requirements to follow.


    I'd suggest that about the only way not to achieve 30 hours CPD in a year is to retire and spend all day watching football on TV...I was originally going to write my usual example of "leave engineering and run a sweet shop" but actually there's a lot of transferable skills to be achieved from doing that!


    Bottom line...Don't Panic!


    Cheers,


    Andy
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