[Peter Hallsworth]

Hi Tim

I'm Peter Hallsworth and a Reviewer for ICE for the last xxx years with some 400 reviews under my belt. I hope to able to offer some guidance to prospective candidates from the other side of the table to show what we are looking for and how we find out the relevant evidence. I also run a Written Exercise Group both face to face in Manchester and online using WebEx usually a week later. The objective (similar to this site) is to give everyone confidence. We gain that by sharing Mind Maps which effectively act as the Contents Page for an essay and we have some forty Generic Questions. You will probably need to amend the shared Mind Map to address the actual question you get but it is a tinkering exercise not a blank sheet of paper which certainly can offer confidence.

I have come across some really excellent candidates but unfortunately I have also come across some very poor candidates. The excellent candidates are a pleasure to review and it all seems like a discussion between friends about engineering and the challenges faced by the candidate. The failures usually result from a lack of confidence or responsibility. It is not acceptable to see a dangerous activity on site and tell me that "I went back to the office and wrote an email to the contractor".

So along with Mike Rogers I am here to help.

Peter Hallsworth