Do you belong to any professional body? In what ways have you benefited from this organisation(s). have they really been relevant to your career and professional growth (or did you join them just to belong),

for example, if you are an engineer, do you belong to NSE or registered with Coren? if no why, and if yes how as the membership benefited you.
something like this for whatever career or profession you are engaged in, thanks

cashful:

for example, if you are an engineer, do you belong to NSE or registered with Coren? if no why, and if yes how as the membership benefited you.
something like this for whatever career or profession you are engaged in, thanks

COREN?

When I served in '98, they showed up in our camp, sold us some brochure for N300 (we paid out of our lean 1.6k), promised to ensure we all got posted to work as engineers, and we never heard from them again.

I think COREN and NSE are useless. Rather than creating technical standards, they are busy creating cadres, and promoting discrimination between uni and poly graduates. Most of them are daft old academics and desperate government contractors anyway.
I have never looked their way since NYSC, and will not be doing so anytime soon.

AjanleKoko:

COREN? 

When I served in '98, they showed up in our camp, sold us some brochure for N300 (we paid out of our lean 1.6k), promised to ensure we all got posted to work as engineers, and we never heard from them again.

I think COREN and NSE are useless. Rather than creating technical standards, they are busy creating cadres, and promoting discrimination between uni and poly graduates. Most of them are daft old academics and desperate government contractors anyway.
I have never looked their way since NYSC, and will not be doing so anytime soon.

i share your opinion Ajanlekoko, i did buy the form for COREN(@ NYSC), and nothing came out of it, and presently the only reason i am considering registering with either of them is majorly not for professional reasons .

but i would love to hear from guys that are benefiting from professional bodies that they belong to.

^^
Try the accounting and banking bodies, law, and possibly the medical sciences.

they are very relevant. only if they are doing things the way its meant to be done

lekside44:

they are very relevant. only if they are doing things the way its meant to be done

expatiate please using one example

Professional bodies in Nigeria are only interested in getting money from as much as they could get with empty promises in return.
Check computer CPN, NCP and some local forensic assoc around.

They are laughables

Two very professional bodies in Nigeria are ICAN and COREN.

cashful:

Do you belong  to any professional body? In what ways have you benefited from this organisation(s). have they really been relevant to your career and professional growth (or did you join them just to belong),

Forget about those Nigerian based professional assoc presently- they are cults and discriminates.
This nation needs people and service oriented prof. assoc., visionary, and benefiting that are not out to rip the society now.
Its time some new assocs come up to compete with the old cabals Don't you agree with me?

I believe they are not relevant.

I am with ICSAN and CIPMN. i used to be with NIM till they became a "dugbe" association. every post NYSC graduate is a member !!

ICSAN is only really relevant to lawyers which i am not but did it then because i wanted a career change and it was recognised in the commonwealth nations. When i did the exams way back in the early 90's it wasnt specifically a law thing till lawyers hijacked it and insisted that all corporate secretaries who are usually lawyers must have ICSAN.

NIM - because i was entering mgt cadre i joined up. i left cos i saw that they just wanted numbers and were marketing every Ngozi, Iyabo and Fatima. they were practically selling their membership like crayfish

I am also a CIPMN member  and am an HR practitioner. You can never post a professional enquiry and get a reply. their website is never updated. their HR forum in non-existent.

In short, i have gained nothing from them. they all eventually are big boy clubs and the only thing they know how to do is collect subscriptions, levy one thing or another and increase exam fees.

Havent you seen how NBA is stealthily becoming, under the guise of modernising, an elitist organisation. Check them out in This Day on Tuesdays.

I am purely a member because employers insist on these professional memberships.