Hi everyone. Not sure if this is the right place to be asking this question, but I've looked through the various communities and I couldn't see anything in the way of bringing together engineers who are either serving or who have left the forces. I've been out the army ten years now, but when I look back on it there was very little instilled in the way of professional development during my time in the forces. I think the army I served in was very backwards in that respect, and it would be interesting to know how or if it had changed, and I'd be interested to know if anyone thinks that this is the sort of community that would add value to the IET. I think if I'd had better opportunities for guidance in a professional sense I'd have really benefitted.
Whilst I don't disagree with what you're saying, I think it's a bit of a tangent to the original post- it wasn't my intention to debate the merits of individual engineers, it was whether the IET actively promoted the benefits of personal development and competence building to serving personell or service leavers. In my own personal experience, it wasn't instilled in you at junior level at all. I didn't even really know what an engineering institution did until I started a degree many years after leaving- it gets drilled into graduates, yet as you've said yourself being a graduate is far from the only route. I was curious whether my experience was common, a thing of the past, or of little consequence in the opinion of others.
Whilst I don't disagree with what you're saying, I think it's a bit of a tangent to the original post- it wasn't my intention to debate the merits of individual engineers, it was whether the IET actively promoted the benefits of personal development and competence building to serving personell or service leavers. In my own personal experience, it wasn't instilled in you at junior level at all. I didn't even really know what an engineering institution did until I started a degree many years after leaving- it gets drilled into graduates, yet as you've said yourself being a graduate is far from the only route. I was curious whether my experience was common, a thing of the past, or of little consequence in the opinion of others.
