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Employment options other than in the engineering profession

Your degree in engineering has taught you technical skill. You have also learnt many other skills which are essential to employers (see Graduate Qualities). Engineers are renowned for having excellent logic and problem solving skills. If you don't want to be an engineer there are many other options open to you within engineering-related industries or completely unrelated to engineering. Some of these require further study.

 

Use your engineering knowledge combined with another profession:
Teaching
Journalism
Patent Attorney

Other work in the Engineering Industry:
Marketing
Advertising
Public Relations
Human Resources
Accounting and Finance
Corporate Strategy

Opportunity unrelated to engineering which use your Graduate Qualities
Public Sector
Business Consultancy
Computing
Defence

My Future

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