Getting experience while you study, and keeping track of how you’re developing as an engineer.
Getting experience
- Types of opportunity: spring weeks, insight days, internships, placements and degree apprenticeships, and when each happens
- Finding opportunities: Trackr, Gradcracker, the university careers service and professional institutions
- Applications and interviews: timelines, online tests, assessment centres and the STAR method
- Engineering CV outline: what goes where, with examples for a first-year student
Tracking your development
- CPD log template: copy it and record what you learn
- Skills self-assessment template: rate yourself against UK-SPEC with evidence
These link to the WM199 guides on UK-SPEC and professional registration and CPD and reflective practice.