In my experience, PRA's are in short supply in our region, I was looking to the opposite end of East Anglia and beyond when I went through this process. Young RAF engineers at Marham voiced the same issue.
I agree entirely with your observations re. the Fellowship process. My candidate has in the past been the founding technical director of a tech business, but is now operating in semi-retirement as a solo consultant, albeit to global authorities such as CERN. He has observed that all the Fellows he knew have passed on, so as you say, some proactive outreach from the IET Fellowship team could be helpful. I have LN committee colleagues who are Fellowship assessors so I might voice this suggestion there, although in my experience the IET is not driven or moved by suggestions from the engine room.
In my experience, PRA's are in short supply in our region, I was looking to the opposite end of East Anglia and beyond when I went through this process. Young RAF engineers at Marham voiced the same issue.
I agree entirely with your observations re. the Fellowship process. My candidate has in the past been the founding technical director of a tech business, but is now operating in semi-retirement as a solo consultant, albeit to global authorities such as CERN. He has observed that all the Fellows he knew have passed on, so as you say, some proactive outreach from the IET Fellowship team could be helpful. I have LN committee colleagues who are Fellowship assessors so I might voice this suggestion there, although in my experience the IET is not driven or moved by suggestions from the engine room.