Careers for

Engineers

Andy Smith
Sarah Shackleton
 Welcome
back
• Introduction to the Careers and Employability Service
• What you can do with an Engineering degree
• Increasing your employability: Gaining experience
• Engineering Industrial Placements
• Dates for your diary
Second year: time to move up a gear?
 Engineering Careers Team

Andy Smith Rachel

Ramsden
Faculty Careers and
Employability Employability
Consultant Officer

Careers and employability advice CV advice, vacancies and employer events

Sarah Allen Chris Jones Erica Sparkes

Senior Careers Senior Careers Employability
Adviser Adviser Education Projects
Officer - Placements

Careers and employability advice Careers and employability advice Advice on finding and applying for placements
and internships

Pope Building
www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/students/faculty-teams/science Room B04
 How can we help?

• Planning your future

• Gaining experience
• Finding opportunities
• CVs, covering letters, application advice
• Interview advice
• Mock interviews and assessment centres
• Employability skills workshops
• Employer events and careers fairs
 How can you get in touch?

Drop in sessions
Monday 5.30-6.30 pm Look out for
Wednesday 12-2pm our weekly
Engineering Careers Fairs email bulletins!

Book an appointment via My Career

www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/login

Careers-team@nottingham.ac.uk

www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers

@uoncareers

www.facebook.com/CareersUoN
 Moodle Page

Career Resources for Engineering Students

 Engineering Careers Fairs

Engineering and Science Learning Centre 11.30 – 2.30

Engineering Internships Fair

•Thursday 5 October (10.30am – 2.30pm)

Careers in Process Science and Engineering Fair

•Tuesday 10 October

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Fairs

•Tuesday 17 October
•Thursday 19 October

Civil Engineering Fairs

•Tuesday 31 October
•Thursday 2 November

Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering Fairs

•Tuesday 14 November
•Thursday 16 November M3 Engineering Careers Week!
EMPLOYABILITY WEEK – 11th June 2018

Week long series of skills workshops delivered by employers

Highlights from 2017 included:

•Mondelez technical interviews
•Rolls Royce – on line testing
•ExxonMobil – assessment centre group exercise
•GSK & Severn Trent – mock interviews
•PM Group and Aecom – applications & CVs
•Musk – Engineering communication

This week also includes compulsory pre placement briefings for students
undertaking a year in industry
 More careers events

See our events page for more…

www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/events
 Where are they now?

Last year’s Engineering Graduates 6 months after graduation:

• 90.1% were employed or in further study
• 84.2% were in graduate-level employment or study
 An ABC of employers…

Selection of UoN Civil Engineering destinations 2014/15 & 2015-16

 Planning your next steps

Application
Type of timescale and
occupation Employment
or further process?
study?

Other
Industry / sector
Type of
opportunity
Research
Postgrad
Grad
schemes
Taught
Grad jobs
Postgrad
 Mechanical Engineering: Typical industries / specialisms

• Automotive • Advanced Manufacturing

• Aerospace • Civil
• Aviation • FMCG
• Marine • Rail
• Energy and power • Building Services
• Environmental • Water

https://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/engineering
 Other options with Civil Engineering

• 70% of graduate jobs are open to graduates from any

discipline

• Other sectors to consider might include:

– Business, Finance and Management
– Information Technology
– (Technical) Sales
– Education
– Armed Forces and Emergency Services
– Public Sector
– Law (including patent attorney)
 Gaining Experience

• 31% of graduate jobs with large graduate recruiters are

expected to go to those who already known to the
company (through internships etc.) – Highfliers report 2015

The benefits of experience:

• Relevant experience
• Commercial awareness
• Technical and transferable skills
• Building contacts
• ‘Try before you buy’
• Graduate job opportunities
 Types of experience

• Work shadowing (1-2 days unpaid)

• Work experience (up to 2 weeks unpaid)
• Summer / Internship (up to 3 months paid)
• Year in Industry (up to 12 months paid)

• Volunteering (UK or internationally, engineering or non-

engineering related)
• Part time work
• Involvement in extra-curricular activities
 Resources

www.gradcracker.com

www.linkedin.com

www.prospects.ac.uk

https://www.imeche.org/membership-
registration/professional-development-and-cpd

http://www.Nottingham.ac.uk/careers/login

https:///www.Nottingham.ac.uk/careers/index.aspx
 Year in
Industry
Placements
2nd year

Sarah Shackleton
 Meet the team

Sarah Shackleton

Faculty Business
Engagement and
Placements Manager

Placement opportunity and course

support

Trevor Pierce Charlotte Jones

Faculty Industrial Student Services – Placement

Placements Support
Manager

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Placement opportunity and

course support Placement tracking and course
queries
 Why should I do a placement?

Get real-world
experience

Confirm your
Experience of
career choice
recruitment
processes

Your YEAR
Build professional IN INDUSTRY Earn Money
network

Graduate job offer

Apply & develop
from the
technical
placement
knowledge
company Better employment
prospects
 Structure of Year in Industry Course

Year in industry offered on

both BEng and MEng

Final Year

Year Three Year Three

Year Two Year Two

Year One Year One

MEng(Hons) Degree BEng (Hons) Degree

Structure of Year in Industry Course

Add 1 year for degrees with

an integrated year in industry

Year Three

Year Two Year Two

Year One Year One

MEng(Hons) Degree BEng (Hons) Degree

 What do we do ?

Provide Support to find a placement

Students Employers
• Researching career • Host employer events
options • Guidance on placement
• Support in writing CVs and provision
applications • Advertise jobs
• Preparation for interviews • Collate applications
• Guidance on handling • Arrange interviews
offers
• Support offer process
• Tutor visits

EMPLOYABILITY WEEK 11th June 18

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STARTING YOUR PLACEMENT HUNT 4th Oct 1-2.30pm Pope A14
 Where to find us:

APM Hub – B03, L4, University Park

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/industrial-placements
Tel: 0115 748 6112
86112 (internal)
83058
email: engineeringplacements@nottingham.ac.uk

Drop in sessions and appointments available

 When do I need to do anything

1 Boost your CV: 2 Think about where you would like to

• Societies work:
• Extra-curricular activities
• Part time work
• Project work
• Volunteering
• Summer Placements

3 Get involved in Careers events

• Spotlight on…
• Careers Fairs
• Internship fair
Thankyou

Any questions?