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** Ask the Expert ** - Professional Registration

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Hello and welcome to the IET Women's Network’s first ''Ask the Expert'' discussion area, focusing on professional registration!

 

This area of the discussion forum allows you to interact with skilled IET Professional Registration Advisors, (PRA’s) helping you to get a feel for the benefits of becoming professionally registered but to also address any misconceptions associated with the application process.





This discussion forum provides you with:

 


An online, professional, global networking platform, in which you can ask questions that may be answered by members, volunteers, PRA’s and members of the interview panel;

 



An opportunity for further networking and knowledge sharing / acquisition;

 



A means of encouragement and support for you and others;

 



Builds confidence in initiating the application process;


 

There are significantly lower numbers of professionally registered women, within the IET, when compared to that of their male counterpart.

 

If the reason for this is due to a misconception surrounding the application process or uncertainty as to what the benefits are, then this forum will serve as a means of helping to alter those perceptions and inform you of how professional registration can be of benefit to you.

 

We do hope that you will take advantage of this ‘’Ask the Expert’’ discussion area.



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Jo Foster
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    Hi Nicola,  I suggest you go and download the latest application pack from the IET web site.  http://www.theiet.org/membership/profreg/ceng/index.cfm



    You will find that the new aplicaiton form is formatted in a way which is much more suited to the project by project approach covering many competencies than the older forms where the focus was on competency matching.  Note it is a good idea to highlight int he form which competencies you think you are matching.



    The last issue about gaps in competency is a difficult one without more detail (feel free to contact me seperately if you want to discuss (vquinn@theiet.org).  Normally in the application process I try and get people to think outside their interpretation a bit on competencies, e.g. management experience, is not restricted to managing people directly, you could be managing a multi-million dollar project with a team of 30 people, none of whom directly report to you.  That is still management experience. 



    For the "what is competency" question, try and look at key words in the UK Spec, these can give you some idea of the kind of information you should be trying to put together.  It also sometimes helps to look at the difference in wordng between say IEng or EngTech and CEng to see the difference more clearly.  also hink about whether you are able to do the work alone, or could you train someone to do the same work?  If you want to you can register with Ca\\reer manager - they use four levels of "skill level".  levels 1 and 2 are "trainee" and "supervised", level 3 is "practitioner" (competent) and level 4 is "expert".  Think about these kind of words when you are talking about competency - they can be really useful.  http://www.theiet.org/membership/career/cmanager/index.cfm



    remember also that it is not necessary that you are an expert, or even "competent" in ALL matters, most people have some weaknesses - however if you have at least some level of exposure and can identify that this is not such a stong area then this is something you can either work on before the application, or at least be aware of and make future plans to address.





    Hope this helps - good luck



    Vikki
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    Hi Nicola,  I suggest you go and download the latest application pack from the IET web site.  http://www.theiet.org/membership/profreg/ceng/index.cfm



    You will find that the new aplicaiton form is formatted in a way which is much more suited to the project by project approach covering many competencies than the older forms where the focus was on competency matching.  Note it is a good idea to highlight int he form which competencies you think you are matching.



    The last issue about gaps in competency is a difficult one without more detail (feel free to contact me seperately if you want to discuss (vquinn@theiet.org).  Normally in the application process I try and get people to think outside their interpretation a bit on competencies, e.g. management experience, is not restricted to managing people directly, you could be managing a multi-million dollar project with a team of 30 people, none of whom directly report to you.  That is still management experience. 



    For the "what is competency" question, try and look at key words in the UK Spec, these can give you some idea of the kind of information you should be trying to put together.  It also sometimes helps to look at the difference in wordng between say IEng or EngTech and CEng to see the difference more clearly.  also hink about whether you are able to do the work alone, or could you train someone to do the same work?  If you want to you can register with Ca\\reer manager - they use four levels of "skill level".  levels 1 and 2 are "trainee" and "supervised", level 3 is "practitioner" (competent) and level 4 is "expert".  Think about these kind of words when you are talking about competency - they can be really useful.  http://www.theiet.org/membership/career/cmanager/index.cfm



    remember also that it is not necessary that you are an expert, or even "competent" in ALL matters, most people have some weaknesses - however if you have at least some level of exposure and can identify that this is not such a stong area then this is something you can either work on before the application, or at least be aware of and make future plans to address.





    Hope this helps - good luck



    Vikki
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