Work experience

Engineering work experience: how to help your career before you graduate

Work experience will impress graduate recruiters and can help you with career decisions. An engineering placement such as an internship or year in industry is the best bet but non-engineering experience can also help.

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From placement year to graduate job: getting a software engineering career started

An industrial placement year designing software exposed graduate engineer David Brown to work on a different level from at university and put him a step ahead in his final year. It also helped him get his graduate job in 3D graphics and graphic programming with the same employer.

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Graduate engineering career sorted in a summer

Fixing your future in a vacation? No problem. Ten weeks on a summer placement convinced aeronautical engineering graduate Steven Blunden to stay in engineering... and landed him his graduate job.

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Better than a summer job: my engineering placements at a steel works

Graduate James Collins gained hands-on experience and more from securing multiple engineering placements with a local steel-maker than from a standard summer job.

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How a year in industry helped my graduate engineering career

Contractor or consultancy? A year in industry with engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald helped graduate engineer Lewis Grive decide what he wanted from his career.

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Engineering placements in pharmaceuticals: the perfect pill for my graduate career

A year in industry and summer placements in pharmaceuticals showed engineering student Chris Dexter how to marry engineering theory with practice: ‘I didn’t realise how much I understood until I saw the difference between myself and my classmates that don’t have practical experience.’

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