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Interview tips - from personal experience on either sides of the interview table (oral interview)

Interview tips - from personal experience on either sides of the interview table (oral interview) These tips are for oral interviews.  There may be in initial written interview, after which the successful candidates progress to the oral interview.  The oral interview is the final stage towards securing the job or internship opportunity.  Tips of written interviews shall follow on a different blog. Attending a job interview is a nerve recking experience.  It can bring out the worst in you, despite expecting to present your best side.  However, you shall get to the interview room with a big advantage and high chance of success against the competition if you prepare, anticipating the types of questions in advance and practicing how to respond to these QAs.  I have been on both sides on the interview table and can give some tips for those preparing to be interviewed for a position, be it job or internship, as below. Tips on preparing, grooming, projection and answering: - dress neatly and
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How to be an Engineer in Kenya

How to be an Engineer in Kenya Preamble: Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK) - the professional body for Engineers in Kenya.  There are many different membership categories.  This article deals with registering for the 'Corporate member' class.  Such Corporate members must be graduates of Engineering in an Engineering discipline, from an institution recognized and accredited by EBK. Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) -  the Government of Kenya body mandated to register engineers, regulate the profession and set standards and practice of engineering.   There are many different registration categories.  This article deals with registering for the 'Professional Engineer' (PE) category.   Such PEs must be graduates of Engineering in an Engineering discipline, from an institution recognized and accredited by EBK. To be a Corporate member of IEK, you will need to be a PE.  However, to be a PE, you will also need to be a Corporate member of IEK.  That means that you need to ha
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The 2nd Journey – Giving Engineering a second chance

The 2nd Journey – Giving Engineering a second chance My second attempt at registering as an EBK Professional Engineer (PE) in Electrical and an IEK Corporate member started Dec. 2021 when I got an email from EBK address appropriately to Dear ‘old engineer’.  The letter indicated that we had stayed in the register of graduates for long and needed to leave.  I was required to attend an online meeting to discuss this issue. The keynote address during this online session (of course we paid for it) was by the Chairman of EBK, Eng. Mwongera.  He reminded us that registration at EBK was meant to get us to the destination of a Professional Engineer, not to keep us just there as graduates.  He said that we were not doing service to Kenya is we had more that 2-years of on-the-job experience, and yet we could not even sign an engineering design, yet we are doing those designs ourselves.  He told us that we must demonstrate competence in our various engineering disciplines by presenting a sample p
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