"to help you relax by talking about something you are very familiar with and proud of."


Excellent advice, Graham, for every I Eng and CEng candidates, as is your reference to including mention of Competences C, D and E, since these are equally crucial to any successful project.


Ron McMurtrie

Thank you Graham and Ronald, both very valid points ill be taking on board regarding ensuring i cover the competency categories in the presentation.


Now i've just to think through how to incorporate competency E/E5, as im unsure what exactly constituites rigour, honesty, integrity, respect for law-life-public good. I suspect repeating my employers official values will not surfice!

Lee,

Don't go out of your way to ensure all the competencies are covered in the presentation as the presentation is supposed to show the A and B competencies. The others tend to be covered (particularly D2 as that is presenting findings to others - i.e. giving a presentation) as they are part of the way you work but don't let the A and B competency coverage suffer through trying to get in examples of all competencies. Anything that you don't seem to have covered in the presentation will be drawn out of you in the subsequent discussion, possibly without you realising it.

For E5, I would suggest taking a look at the case studies in ethics that are on the IET website. These give hypothetical situations and ask what your response would be. Working through a case study is not the sort of thing you can offer as evidence in your interview, but it gives you an idea of the sort of evidence that might be appropriate from your own experience. I should say the case studies were in the "Professional Ethics" area of the old website - where they are now I couldn't tell you.

Alasdair

Hi Lee


I went through the interview process a year ago and was successful.


I chose not to use powerpoint and gave a verbal presentation instead. I presented some headlines of the topics in advance.This worked quite nicely because I invited them to ask questions as I went along which took the pressure off a bit. They only want see you cover the competencies - the interviewers were from completely unrelated fields of engineering in my instance.


Honestly the process is not as daunting as it seems and the hour passes by very quickly. 


The worst bit is the weeks of waiting afterwards!


I wish you the best of luck 


Tim