Work experience

Work experience: your passport to a graduate civil and structural engineering job

Getting work experience with a civil or structural engineering company boosts your chances of getting a civil engineering or structural engineering graduate job. Here an engineering placement career adviser gives her advice on how to find a placement, how to apply and how to make the most of it.

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Groundwork for a graduate job: my civil engineering sandwich placement

‘I now know that I want to work in the construction environment,’ says civil engineering student Tecwyn Griffiths. He shares his experiences of working as a groundwork engineer as part of his year in industry.

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Graduate career sorted in four summer placements

Structural engineering student, Rebecca Churnside found that doing summer placements with a construction contracting company had loads to offer: financial rewards, practical experience and a graduate job offer.

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The sponsored life: my summer placements as a sponsored civil engineering student

Caroline Anderson was sponsored through her civil engineering degree by Skanska and had many work experience placements with them before being offered a graduate role. Her advice? To be seen and heard – for the right reasons.

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