You should start your engineering job search by using the career search on this website.

If you want to look elsewhere, here are some other sources of job information.

Graduate engineering employers

It’s a good idea to find out which employers regularly recruit graduates from your course. Your tutor and careers service can provide you with details from their annual survey of student destinations.

Some academics and careers advisers actively keep in touch with their alumni and invite them into departments to give talks on their experiences.

Engineering and technology careers fairs

Consider employers who are keen to recruit people like you and who make the effort to give presentations at your university. At these events employers give details of their vacancies and the people they need.

You can often talk with young professionals who are just two or three years ahead of you in their career and can give you a first-hand description of what their job involves.

Careers fairs are another good way to find out more information about potential employers, and some fairs concentrate solely on engineering.

Look out for these. AIESEC presents careers fairs on campus, and provide a unique opportunity to talk directly with employers’ representatives and compare the kind of work they are offering.

Professional bodies for engineering graduates

If you are determined to become a chartered or incorporated engineer you can discover firms who provide training leading to these qualifications through the relevant professional body.

Websites of professional bodies all give details about firms that provide accredited training and some hold information about current vacancies. The Institution of Civil Engineers even runs its own recruitment agency.

Engineering trade associations

Another approach is to find out about relevant trade associations. These are clubs that employers join which relate to specific industries. Using the internet you can often discover these as links from related professional bodies. Why not look up their members and apply to those that take your fancy?

Examples of trade associations include:

• Association for Consultancy and Engineering
• Chartered Quality Institute
• Energy Institute
• European Council of Civil Engineers
• European Federation of Chemical Engineering
• Institute of Broadcast Sound
• Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
• Institute of Measurement and Control
• Institute of Operations Management
• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• Institution of Agricultural Engineers
• Institution of Chemical Engineers
• Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
• Institution of Civil Engineers
• Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Institution of Engineering Designers
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Institution of Railway Signal Engineers
• Institution of Structural Engineers
• Intellect
• Railway Civil Engineers’ Association
• Royal Aeronautical Society
• Society of Operations Engineers

Working abroad

If you want to work in another European country, look for links to European recruiters such as the European Association of Aerospace Industries.

On most of these websites it is possible to get a list of firms who are members and direct links to their own websites. Having discovered what they do, the kind of engineers they employ and their contact details you can make direct speculative applications.