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Attention Student members graduating this year
Congratulations to all our Student members who have successfully completed their degree course this year.
The IED wishes you well as you now move to the next exciting stage of your life – starting your professional career. Do remember that there are some job vacancies advertised on our website.
Now that you have completed your studies your Student membership of the IED will expire at the end of 2011. To enable you to continue with your membership, you will need to contact Sue at the IED to request an application form for Graduate membership (GradIED). Please email your requests for a graduate application form to
sue@ied.org.uk. If your request for Graduate membership is received before the end of this year, your first year’s annual subscription will be free.
The IED looks forward to working with you in the future to help you gain full professional recognition.
LETTER
Benefits of membership
I have been a member of IED for a number of years and have taken pride in belonging to a well meaning professional institution. I have always desired to participate in the activities and initiatives, but it never worked out either because of my professional commitments or lack of time (for a number of years most of my time other than work (weekdays) and being at home (weekends) is spent on the road).
For quite sometime I have been pondering over ‘how to convey to IED my sincerest observations’, which are:
A large percentage of the British Asians are professionals and some work in key roles in our industry. It can only help IED if they are recognised and mentioned in
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ED by giving them a sense of belonging. It will also encourage the young British Asian (upcoming) engineers to join and participate in the future of IED.
I have read ‘No Takers!’ on page 31 of the latest journal with great interest. There is some truth in it, but the reality is different; allow me to explain.
Since the early 1990s I have struggled to establish myself in my engineering design profession. Every year I have been hired to see through either a product or a project, with the promise of continuity, but it never happened. There were times when I used to get into a short-term employment over a telephone interview, as long as I was prepared to travel and live closer to work. More recently potential employers
want to hold two to three interviews with no promise of a job offer afterwards. In this quest I have travelled as far as Paris, Brussels, Manchester, London, Bristol, Birmingham, Ireland, Cardiff etc. This costs an awful lot of time and money often with no gains at all. Because of the afore stated reasons many of my fellow very good engineers have dropped the idea of finding work and now I also have refused to attend interviews if the distance and cost is a prohibitive factor.
I would also like to thank the institution for advertising my resumé on the web which has helped me to stay at the forefront in finding employment.
Vijay Kumar IEng FIED
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