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A companion to formal professional development.

Projects Club exists to support ambitious engineers and project professionals who take their professional development seriously — and who also recognise that clarity, reflection, and direction do not always come from formal frameworks alone.

We are an independent community and resource, designed to support you on your journey with the recognised professional institutions.

We strongly advise that you join a professional institution relevant to the work you do or the studies you are undertaking.  Joining an institution is a really easy way to demonstrate commitment to your profession, develop yourself and demonstrate to others you are serious and aligned to the latest thinking, best practices and professional community.  This is an excellent way to build your CV and a really simple one.

Our members are affiliated with, or working towards membership of, recognised professional institutions such as:

  • Association for Project Management (APM)

  • Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

  • Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

  • Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)

These institutions set formal standards for:

 

  • competence

  • ethics

  • continuing professional development (CPD)

  • chartership and professional recognition

The gap we are designed to support.

Formal professional development frameworks are essential — but they often assume that individuals already have:

  • clarity about their direction

  • confidence in their priorities

  • the language to articulate experience and learning

  • the emotional space to reflect properly

In reality, many capable professionals are:

  • carrying too much in their head

  • reacting rather than planning

  • unsure how different areas of life connect

  • struggling to translate lived experience into formal evidence

 

Projects Club exists to address that gap.

Alignment, not accreditation.

Our tools and community are designed to align with, and support engagement in, established professional expectations, including:

  • reflective practice

  • structured personal development planning (PDP)

  • values-led decision making

  • ethical and professional self-awareness

  • documented learning and experience

These are common principles across engineering and project management institutions — even where the language and formats differ.

 

What we provide is a human, accessible starting point that helps individuals think clearly before formal documentation and assessment.

 

Join our community to get help writing your own personal development plan that you can share with senor stakeholders to support your career conversations. Here you can also get support on your journey with the professional institutions.  Click here to join the online community.