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How do you decide which is the best engineering company for you to join? We reveal student engineers’ most popular employers – but ultimately your choice of workplace will depend on the industry you want to work in, the career you want to have and the life you want to lead.

An engineering placement year or summer internship will impress employers and help you with career decisions. Non-engineering work experience is useful too.

Read on to discover the technical interview questions and assessment centre exercises you might be given by a civil or structural engineering employer – and, vitally, our handy tips on how to prepare for them.

Use our example technical interview questions and our top tips to help you prepare for this stage of the recruitment process and secure an engineering internship or graduate job with confidence.

Take a look at these common engineering interview questions and our tips on how to answer them, plus what questions you could ask recruiters when the tables are turned.

Discover tips to answer Babcock’s graduate application form questions ‘Why do you want to work for Babcock?’ and ‘What attracts you to this role?’ and demonstrate your interest in the organisation and the programme.

Logistics, patent law, technical consulting, teaching or technical sales... there are many alternative jobs that graduate engineers can do, whether you want to stay within the engineering industry or pursue an entirely different career path.

Find out what kinds of work mechanical engineering graduates can carry out in which engineering industries – or how you could pursue a totally different career.

The majority of leading engineering companies offer work experience to student engineers. Here’s what’s on offer.

Discover what a typical graduate engineer salary is, how much the top graduate schemes pay and the benefits, perks and bonuses offered by engineering companies.

Engineering graduates often work towards professional qualification as a chartered engineer (CEng) or incorporated engineer (IEng). Find out what this involves.

Claudia Bates, a senior consultant at Roland Berger, talks about her job, developments in consulting and advice for aspiring consultants. Claudia studied English at the University of Cambridge.