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Exploring Global Career Opportunities for Engineers: Skills, Destinations, and More

Engineering graduates are in high demand worldwide, with opportunities in countries like Australia, Canada, and more. This guide highlights why studying engineering is valuable, the skills you'll gain, and where a Master's from Warwick can take you. Discover current job market trends and how civil engineering graduates can navigate economic challenges. Learn about diverse roles, from project management to IT consulting, and explore international graduate programs, including those from top employers in various sectors. Your engineering career can truly transcend borders.

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Exploring Global Career Opportunities for Engineers: Skills, Destinations, and More

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  1. International Career Opportunities for Engineers

  2. Why study Engineering? • Engineers are always needed globally • What skills will I gain as an Engineer? • Where could I go with an MSc Engineering from Warwick? • International opportunities- paid and voluntary

  3. Current economic climate • UK and European economies are recovering with limited opportunity for employment of civil engineering graduates • Following parts of the world still need engineers: Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand • Demand is constantly changing and engineers are always needed www.ice.org.uk/qualification-careers/Graduate-careers-section/International-opportunities

  4. Skills of an Engineering graduate • cost/value-conscious and aware of the necessary social, cultural, environmental, health and safety, and wider professional responsibilities; • capable of careful attention to detail, exercising good judgement and accepting responsibility; • able to communicate with others and work in multidisciplinary teams. • Team working • Critical thinking • able to solve problems using both logic and creative/innovative approaches; • numerate and highly computer literate, with excellent analytical skills; • able to plan and prioritise, work to deadlines and under pressure; Taken from Prospects.ac.uk

  5. Where do Warwick Engineers go? Engineering roles Non-engineering roles Project Manager, Information Security, Procter and Gamble System Analyst, IBM Senior Project Accountant, Network Rail IT Consultant, Citibank Analyst consultant, Accenture • Production Planner, Colgate Palmolive • Engineering Consultant, Arup • Graduate Leadership Programme, Unilever • Distribution Manager, AstraZeneca • Engineer, Cathay Pacific Airlines Destinations 2008/2009

  6. Employers who take on Warwick Engineering graduates • Procter & Gamble • Centrica • Unilever • Cummins • GE Aviation • EDF Energy • Fujitsu • National Grid • Rolls Royce • Aston Martin • Lagonda Ltd • Airbus • Atkins • IBM • Network Rail • RWE • Npower • Schlumberger • Siemens Destinations 20011/2012

  7. International opportunities for Engineers • Graduate schemes E.g. BP Graduate Scheme (International) • Large multi national employers E.g. Siemens Pakistan

  8. Charity &Voluntary Sector • Engineers without Borders • World Bank • Redr

  9. Useful links for further research • www.ice.org.uk/qualification-careers/Graduate-careers-section/International-opportunities • www.prospects.ac.uk/already_in_uk_applying_for_non_uk_jobs.htm • www.gradcracker.com/engineering-microsite/graduate-programme/111/bp • http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/scs/findingajob/ambitions

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