After becoming a Chartered Engineer, what is the next milestone or achievement?

Graham Prebble said:

not to moralise on the reasons for applying

I was reflecting on the professional ethics viewpoints.

It is not our business why they are applying ....

Graham Prebble said:

why they are applying

As a PRA, it is a potential part of their context for me providing advice. As you imply, it's not a PRI thing.

This is with a view to improving their chance of registration.

The question is "what are they doing", and implicitly how they feel they know they are ready for registration as professional engineer.

As an interviewer, I can tell you it is irrelevant. Focus on the facts and the facts are how they demonstrate the competence areas, not the reason they applied

Said my view.. not gonna comment more

I'm not a great believer in 'goals at all costs', most people's life plans never include old age and demise..

Anecdote - I was sent on some 'career management' course at some point many years ago, and was (at nearly 30, ah so long ago) the oldest 'student' in the room.
Fill out your ultimate ambition they said, and later I found others had put things like "earn £50k" (I did say it was a while ago) or 'become a director" or "own a yacht".
I was the only one (ever, apparently)  who put down "be cremated and scattered somewhere sunny"

The lady running the course was somewhat lost for words. I've not been sent on a course like that for a while.

M.

Had a similar 'outplacement' course which also said there would be no pensions by now (actually implied 2013, but..). Helped with the reflection about the difference between a direction of travel, and a goal [aka stopping point?].

For Keith Mak's original question, it's worth noting that, for the proverbial technical route,  'experts' are kept by someone, while consultants are sort out and consulted (and thus have a subtly different skill set to facilitate that).