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PROFILE : My journey to Professional Registration - Innocent Gininda

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Innocent Gininda shares his journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng), emphasizing the importance of mentorship, early preparation, and understanding ECSA requirements. He offers advice to aspiring PrEngs, highlighting the value of diverse feedback and a positive mindset. My journey to becoming a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng) culminated successfully in November 2024. I was fortunate to begin my career at a company with a Commitment and Undertaking (C&U) Agreement with ECSA and a robust mentorship program. This commitment to training engineers to the standard required for Professional Registration provided me with essential resources and a structured path to track my experience against ECSA requirements. Early exposure to these expectations instilled a positive outlook on registration and solidified my desire to achieve this milestone. My views on Professional Registration have remained consistently positive throughout this journey. Working alongside ...
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CAREERTIP : Build essential Skills for the future workplace.

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In the evolving landscape of work, technical skills alone are no longer enough. The World Economic Forum emphasizes the growing importance of "soft skills" like critical thinking, creativity, and empathy. These skills are not only irreplaceable by technology but also more difficult to quantify and teach.


To equip for the future workplace, you must invest in these vital workplace skills. Here are four such skills that require immediate and ongoing attention by hardhatPROS:
  1. Active Listening: In a polarized world, true listening is declining. Effective listening goes beyond hearing; it involves understanding, evaluating, and responding appropriately. It's an interactive process that thrives in conversations. To cultivate active listening, engage with diverse viewpoints, challenge your own assumptions, and practice reflecting back what you've heard.
  2. Attention and Focus: Your ability to focus has been eroded by the constant distractions of technology and a culture of instant gratification. We are bombarded with information, sleep-deprived, and burnt out. To regain focus, start with short periods of dedicated attention, gradually increasing the duration. Consider taking breaks from social media and practice self-compassion.
  3. Resilience and Agility: The ongoing uncertainty and rapid changes in the workplace require resilience and agility. Resilience enables you to bounce back from adversity and thrive in challenging times. It fosters self-esteem, purpose, and job satisfaction. Building resilience starts with self-awareness and honest conversations about challenges and limitations.
  4. Perspective-Taking: Embracing diverse viewpoints enhances problem-solving and fuels innovation. Perspective-taking activates the brain's default mode network, responsible for creativity and imagination. To cultivate this skill, engage with diverse social networks, ask questions, and expose yourself to a variety of experiences and ideas.
By nurturing these essential skills, you can navigate the complexities of the future workplace and achieve greater success individually and collectively as a hardhatPRO.

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