If you have any questions about your interview, please contact the membership team by email or by calling +44 (0) 1788 578214.

Interview time and location

Stage 3 works to a three-month assessment cycle in which submissions are reviewed, interviews are conducted, and assessment decisions are confirmed. Before submitting your application, it is vital that you have checked the published schedules to ensure that you are available for the period where the interviews will take place.

Interviews are typically conducted virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Preparing for your interview

In preparation for your interview, please re-read your C&C report and CV to ensure you are familiar with your submission. We recommend that you have copies of these documents with you during the interview for reference. You will not be permitted to access any other devices or material, including internet searches.

The interview may open with the professional reviewers asking you for a summary of your career to date, so you should consider this in your preparation.

If your interview is being held online, you should identify a space that you can use without being interrupted, it is important that nobody else may be present in the room for the duration of your interview. If your interview is being held face-to-face, we recommend that you pre-plan your travel and allow contingency time to account for potential issues.

The interview

Your interview will last approximately one hour and be conducted by two professional reviewers. Typically, this will be the same professional reviewers who assessed your C&C report and therefore have a thorough understating of your application.

The interview is intended to be a positive experience that provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate how you satisfy the requirements of IChemE. Your C&C report, which was centred around the requirements, will form the basis of the interview. Your report provided a summary of the work you have carried out in professional practice but the interview allows you to give a wider context to your work. The professional reviewers will ask questions that require you to demonstrate the depth and breadth of your experience and knowledge so that you have opportunities to demonstrate that you meet the requirements. 

"The questions asked were open and clearly designed to let me display the knowledge and skills I had acquired through the various projects I have worked on."

On occasion, they may ask questions that range beyond what you have laid out in your C&C report to allow you to give more examples. This may include information you have included in the CV you submitted as part of the application.

Further guidance on how to prepare for interview is provided in the respective Stage 3 guidance documents.