The Ireland Chartered Engineer professional interview will come to you with the chance to share and authenticate your involvement and ownership of the proof already provided in your application. Engineers Ireland, the assessment authority, will explore the deepness of your engineering knowledge and experience in your requested practice area. This is your opportunity to show our commitment to high standards of professionalism and your understanding of ethical behaviour.

In addition, this interview is an opportunity for the interview panel to explore further all needed competencies. An understanding of the competencies of a Chartered Engineer, the defining engineering problems and engineering activities and how these are reflected in your engineering practice are essential.

Guidance for the interview:

Ensure that you have a confusion-free idea of the Chartered Engineer competencies, and you are familiar with the proof given in your application.

Make sure that you clearly understand the Engineers Ireland Code of Ethics and ethical behaviour principles, the present engineering environment, and how it impacts on you (sustainability, regulation, major changes to codes and legislation, occupational health and safety, so on).

Talk to those who have recently got their professional title and to your supporters for some tips, hints, reassurance and encouragement.

Anticipate questions that could be asked and know what your answers may be.

Have confidence: you must be nervous, but Engineers Ireland would not have invited you to the professional interview if, from the proof given to the date, the authority doesn’t think that you are prepared for the final step.

Prepare for the interview in a relaxed and tension-free way. You must not bring bags of reference files, reports, catalogues and so on.

The interview process is not a formal technical review of your competency. The authority will not ask you to perform any calculations or recite formulates. This process is not an exam.

The interview panel will always try to enquire about the general engineering principles you applied in the life-cycle of any project you shared in your written application for the professional title.

At any stage, if you are not comfortable with any question that is asked by the interviewers in terms of client confidentiality, discrimination, prejudice and so on. You can request the authority to withdraw the question.

For projects that you have worked on, you must be sure to describe carefully your individual contribution. Remember that interviewers are interested in what you personally did, not your company or team as a whole. 

When you answer questions in the Chartered Engineer Ireland professional interview, offer more details, for instance about the technical content of the work done or regarding the structure of the team and your place in it.

The interview panel’s main purpose is to know how over the latest years you have made progress from a junior professional into someone who is now making decisions that are necessary for the progress of a project.