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Road to Registration for Mentors, Supervisors and HR Practitioners - ONLINE COURSE

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In today’s pressurised and demanding business world, engineering firms need all the help they can get to advance their candidates to ECSA registration. Working on the front-line of South Africa’s struggle to beat the skills shortage, you can rely on the Candidate Academy to assist you with input and practical tools.

Attend this course and learn about:

  • What the ECSA requirements are for professional registration
  • The competencies that your candidates will need to master during their candidacy phase
  • How to select appropriate activities for the engineering report
  • Coaching and mentoring techniques
  • How to develop training plans to take your candidates from novice-stage to competent professionals
  • The ECSA requirements, tips and techniques on how to complete each report and prepare for the professional review

Benefits include:

  • A reference manual with the latest ECSA processes
  • Interactive exercises to help you learn faster
  • Networking with other mentors, supervisors and HR

The course is aimed at (but not limited to):

The course helps all those in management positions to a more effective role play in the development of candidates. It is therefore recommended for:

  • Line managers
  • Supervisor
  • Mentors
  • HR practitioners

CPD

This course is accredited with:

  • ECSA (Engineering Council of South Africa) and carries 1 CPD credit.

For online courses, it is recommended to have the following installed on your computer:

  • The Zoom app
Cost (incl. VAT)

CSA/SAICE members: R3 841.00 face-to-face / R3 082.00 Online (via Zoom)

Non-members: R4 600.00 face-to-face / R3 657.00 Online (via Zoom)

Please note the following requirements:

  • Delegates are responsible to ensure that they have sufficient data to cover the full duration of the online course.
  • According to the ECSA requirements for online training, a compulsory online assessment must be completed.
  • The pass mark for the test is 75%

Our Facilitators

Allyson Lawless

Allyson Lawless

Pr Eng, DEng (hc), Hon FSAICE, FREng

Allyson Lawless is a civil engineer experienced in structural, municipal and mining engineering. In the year 2000 she became the first female president of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering, and during that year recognised the looming skills challenge. Since 2003 her career has been focused on skills development and she has published two books, Numbers and Needs, and Numbers and Needs in Local Government, which address skills shortages and the associated solutions in civil engineering and local government respectively. She is a Fellow of SAICE and experience as an ECSA assessor and reviewer.
Steward Gibson

Stewart Gibson

Pr Eng, Fellow of SAICE

Stewart Gibson trained and qualified as a Civil Engineer in the UK before moving to South Africa in 1974 to join a major consultancy group, eventually becoming a Group Director where his responsibilities included risk management and international tendering. After 25 years with the group, he left and formed his own company advising municipalities on ways of improving their service delivery. During this time, in addition to advising on municipal systems and contract management, he was a member of project teams implementing and monitoring several PPP style contracts. Stewart is registered with ECSA as Pr Eng and is a Fellow of SAICE, he has experience as an ECSA assessor and reviewer.

In-house courses can be arranged.

Contact Lizélle at [email protected] for more information.