Is 30 hours of CPD easily reached?

Thank you for your post Stephen, you raise a very valid point. From an IET perspective, we encourage members to record their CPD online using Career Manager under six categories: Training, Work experience, Academic study, Volunteering, Events and seminars and Self-study.

Thing is, anyone gainfully employed in an active engineering capacity will probably engage in an amount of most, if not all, of these six categories.



If your employer doesn't provide structured training, you can record your self learning as CPD. You must be doing this self improvement or you wouldn't be able to do your job effectively.



It's a matter of getting into the habit of recording it, and this is where Career Manager v3 works so well because it is so easy to use (unlike version 2 which, in my opinion, was awful!). A real bonus is that, at the end of the year, when it comes to appraisal time, with a click of the mouse you can create a report to show your boss just what you have done!!

Caroline, thank you.



I'm also a member of BCS so have to record my CPD for that.  I've been transferring my CPD record over to Career Manager.  One of the things that worries me somewhat is that the bulk of my CPD is self study is quite 'businessey' (a lot of stuff around business process, project management, Lean &c).  I'm a Requirements Analyst (really a Business Analyst but our main customer thinks they know what that is but their idea is closer to a subject matter expert) which I would argue is an engineering type role but someone else may look at my CPD and think it's more suited to CMI than IET.  This relates, I think, to the root of some of the discussions I've seen in some forums of this site about "What is an engineer?"



Stephen