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Often when you are applying for graduate jobs, you may be asked to take part in an initial telephone interview. Generally, phone interviews are used by managers and recruiters to screen candidates early in the recruitment selection stage and to filter out those who are not right for the job. They tend to be informal interviews; however, you still need to prepare for them. Fo...

Whatever your engineering focus, you will need to put together a CV to help you secure that perfect graduate engineering job. Typically, engineers need to show a mixture of skills, such as technical skills, soft skills and communication skills, on their CV. Communicating this in just two pages is not as easy as it sounds. For your CV to be successful, it will need to be conc...

So, you've graduated and applied for a role at an engineering firm or for an engineering graduate scheme, and they've given you an interview, but what should you expect from an engineering interview? And how do you prepare for one? Depending on the role you’ve applied for there may be several steps to the interview process, such as: Telephone interview – this is often used a...

The road to a PhD can be a long and difficult, but exciting, journey. The ability to call yourself a doctor at the end of it and being considered an expert in your field is a great achievement, one that you should be proud of. However, there is life after a PhD, and you will need to transition from being a student to either a post-doctoral academic role or to a job in indust...