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Early career hub

If you’re in the early stages of your professional journey, we understand what matters to you. IET membership provides a platform for engineers and technicians in the early stages of their professional life to network, make new contacts, learn new skills, and progress in their careers.

Featured member stories

Engineering as a second career

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Working in engineering is very fulfilling

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I want to inspire more girls to join STEM

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Member stories

More stories, insights and advice from our early career members, people like you, who are staying ahead of the game.

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Employability toolkit

Here you’ll find a wealth of resources to support your journey into employment, helping you to optimise your CV, be interview-ready, land the job and advance in your career.

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Career Hacks

Here you'll find tops tips, latest insights and advice from our members to help you navigate the professional world and achieve great things in your early career.

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As you progress in your career, we’ve put together some tips on the pages below about what you can do to achieve great things, from starting your journey to professional registration, networking and connecting with peers, to staying up to date with the latest technical knowledge.

Advance your career

Go to Advance your career in engineering

Develop your knowledge, skills and competence

Go to Develop your knowledge, skills and competence as an engineer

Connect with our global engineering community

Go to Connect with trusted engineers through our global community

Access the latest news, events and insight on best practice in your sector and beyond

Go to Access the latest news, events and insight on best practice in your sector and beyond

Get the latest technical knowledge and keep up to date

Go to Get the latest technical knowledge and keep up to date

Receive support throughout your career and when you need it most

Go to Receive support throughout your career and when you need it most

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Join us and you’ll be part of more than just a membership organisation.

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Event registration will be unavailable from 8am - 10am on Monday 1 June 2026.

We’re upgrading our event registration system to make it quicker and easier for you to register for an event or course.

On Monday, 1 June, 8am to 10am, our registration system will be temporarily unavailable while we upgrade our systems. For any urgent enquiries during this time, please email events@theiet.org and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. 

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