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Supporting your employees with professional registration

Professional registration is an internationally recognised standard awarded to individual engineers and technicians by licensed bodies who represent the Engineering Council, demonstrating their knowledge, competence and commitment to professionalism as outlined in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC).

Unlock your employees’ potential!

  • Helps your engineers with their professional development
  • Having professionally registered engineers and technicians can give you a competitive advantage
  • Shows your company has a highly skilled and professional workforce
  • Demonstrate your commitment to your employees
  • Employees feel valued and motivated to do their best work while developing further skills and knowledge
  • Helps with the retention of professional and committed staff, who value your commitment to them

Discover how professional registration benefits organisations

What support can your employee expect from us?

  • One-to-one guidance throughout the application process
  • One-to-one support from our pool of advisors, and registered IET members to offer guidance for those completing professional registration
  • Track and record progress using our online tool Career Manager
  • Will help setting development goals for your engineers and technicians which align with your own organisational goals

How can you support your employees?

  • Allow your employee time to complete their application form
  • Allowing your employees time to prepare and attend an interview

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. 

Thank you for your patience.

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