Professional titles are used to signify a person'sprofessional role or to designate membership in a professional society. Professional titles in the anglophone world are usually used as asuffix following the person's name, such asJohn Smith,Esq., and are thus termedpost-nominal letters. However, many European countries useprenominal letters such asEur Ing. In the UK, many professional titles are 'chartered' such asChartered Engineer orChartered Physicist.
Under theEuropean professional qualification directives, holders of professional titles in one member state are entitled to recognition of their title in all other member states.Once a person achievesprofessional certification in a given area of study, they have undergone examination by some form ofgoverning body orprofessional association that is willing to assure the candidates competence in the given field of knowledge. In most cases, acertificate is issued for a set duration of time, at which the candidate must recertify with the same governing body.
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