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Engineering work experience: a beginner's guide
An engineering placement year or summer internship will impress employers and help you with career decisions. Non-engineering work experience is useful too.
Technical interviews: show off your civils degree
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.
Technical interviews for graduate engineering jobs
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.
Your Babcock application form: answering 'Why Babcock?' and 'What attracts you to this role?'
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.
What can I do with an engineering degree, apart from being an engineer?
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.
Roland Berger interview questions and tips for the application process
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.
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A career with a difference: Corporate Citizenship at FTI Consulting
Kirsty Christie, Corporate Citizenship Manager, EMEA at FTI Consulting explains how FTI Consulting’s graduates can give back to the world on work time.
How do I get into consulting as a graduate?
Everything you need to know about how to get into consulting: what the graduate job involves, how to apply, salary information and more.
What salary can a graduate consultant expect?
Discover how much graduate consultants, analysts and associates get paid and get a sense of what benefits and bonuses make up the remuneration and compensation package.
12 skills that consulting recruiters want in graduates
Discover the top skills you will need to become a management consultant and learn how to demonstrate them in your applications.
How to get into consulting without relevant experience
What should you do if you haven't got a consulting internship on your CV, or don’t have any relevant experience?
Applying to McKinsey & Company: CVs, cover letters and interviews
The McKinsey application process consist of a CV and optional covering letter online application, a problem solving assessment and typically two rounds of interviews.
