About Career Manager

What does Career Manager offer members?

A user-friendly system, with a clearly defined learning roadmap enabling individual skill profiling and meaningful training for professional development.

Career Manager will guide you through the steps involved in:

• Building a competence profile;
• Carrying out an assessment;
• Identifying personal training needs to meet competence levels;
• Recording evidence of competence;
• Setting SMART objectives, planning and tracking personal development activities;
• Enhancing personal development for professional registration to CEng, IEng and EngTech including online registration form submission;
• Encouraging personal career progression and continued professional development (CPD).

SMART objectives

SMART is an acronym used to help you define and set effective objectives or goals.

Specific – be precise about what you intend to achieve – remain focused on the objective(s) to avoid wandering off in unrelated areas.

Measurable – quantifying your objectives is key and can help you to focus on what is expected. It can also aid your manager who can monitor and assess actual performance against the set objectives.

Achievable – consider carefully what you can actually achieve. Achievable objectives are based on the ideal scenario where everything is in place such as relevant skill set, adequate resources, agreed timescale, management support and access to key people.

Realistic – your objectives should always add value within the context where they are set ensuring that the correct resources are in place to make the objective happen.

Timely – decide on a timescale to complete the objectives which will inevitably add the appropriate sense of urgency to each task ensuring that the overall objectives are not prolonged over an unreasonable amount of time.

Other benefits of Career Manager

A complete and specific set of help texts are also added to each competence level for further understanding and support.

Specific learning solutions are mapped to as many competence levels as possible to provide our members with a clearly defined roadmap, ensuring relevant and timely delivery of training that is both targeted and meaningful.

Guidance on the roles of mentors and company contacts including help for those supporting candidates and those who are asked to propose and support applications.  Full support is available from the Career Manager team.

How does Career Manager work?

Career Manager is a web based database application. It consists of two main components: the database running under SQL Server 2000 and the web application developed on a Microsoft .NET platform running under Internet Information Server (IIS). Career Manager uses a simple and easy to use web interface.

Users connect to the web server using a web browser. This Internet communication is encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, authenticated by VeriSign. The client web browser must support JavaScript and temporary cookies (and have these features enabled). The supported web browsers are Internet Explorer 5 and subsequent editions, and Mozilla Firefox

Career Manager is populated with recognised frameworks such as:  UK-SPEC, SFIA (skills framework for the information age), safety critical systems and additional sector-specific frameworks supporting the standards and professionalism within the engineering and technology sector.

Our members can build their competence profile by matching their skill set against the recognised framework competence levels, collect and store evidence, identify and resolve further training and learning required for professional registration towards CEng, IEng or EngTech and for continued professional development. 

Our PD-How2 web site will further assist you with explanations regarding the professional development cycle.

What information is created and stored within Career Manager?

• Your personal profile which can be downloaded as your CV;
  Personal membership details are not fully linked to our membership database – we apologise that you will need to add this data into Career Manager. We confirm that future system developments will include a linked integration;
• Your competency profile enabling you to register for CEng, IEng or EngTech online and build a personal job profile by adding competences from recognised frameworks;
• Your competency assessment allowing you to assess your competences based on your selected professional registration category and competences mapped to your personal job profile;
• Your record of evidence to support your professional registration application and to demonstrate your continued professional development;
• Your personal development encouraging career progression to a higher level enabling focused career management, defined learning and targeted professional goals.

How is personal data protected?

All personal data is held in strict confidence and can only be accessed by personal password login by the member and approved Career Manager staff. Please see our data protection statement for further details.

Disaster recovery plan

Managed by NaviSite Europe. Further details regarding the disaster recovery plan can be obtained by emailing Career Manager staff.