Alex Barrett:
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The registration review requires the candidate to make a sales pitch highlighting their own talents, and back that up with a live presentation and discussion with a panel of assessors.
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I feel the process favours those gifted in marketing and social skills.
Human personality play a large part in career success or failure. Those who feel: confident and self assured; have drive and ambition; believe the glass is always half full, will always win against those with opposite personalities.
So you could get someone with a good degree from a top university, and highly conciensious, may not necessarily rise up the career ladder, and to successful registration, simply because, they lacked confidence. A strong but positive personality; coupled with team building engagement; and a few pints down the pub (or 2 or more) with management and the lads, would be enough to secure job promotion, and ultimately to successful registration.
This can be the reason, why young females do not choose STEM subjects, to progress towards an engineering career, because it's seen as an aggressive personality role.