Civil Engineering Grad. - Would love a job!

gnolan

Graduated in 07, got a job on site for 7 months or so and am looking for a consultancy job, preferably roads but not really that picky. Have applied for ESBI and ARUP grad programs but have heard nothing from them. Applied in the UK also but no success. Anyone got any ideas where i should go looking?

On a side topic, i posted in the Work & Jobs Forum about alternative job opportunities for Civil Engineers...any ideas? Thanks

godtabh

gnolan wrote: »

Graduated in 07, got a job on site for 7 months or so and am looking for a consultancy job, preferably roads but not really that picky. Have applied for ESBI and ARUP grad programs but have heard nothing from them. Applied in the UK also but no success. Anyone got any ideas where i should go looking?

On a side topic, i posted in the Work & Jobs Forum about alternative job opportunities for Civil Engineers...any ideas? Thanks

If you have a job hold on to it

Fake Tales

gnolan wrote: »

Graduated in 07, got a job on site for 7 months or so and am looking for a consultancy job, preferably roads but not really that picky. Have applied for ESBI and ARUP grad programs but have heard nothing from them. Applied in the UK also but no success. Anyone got any ideas where i should go looking?

On a side topic, i posted in the Work & Jobs Forum about alternative job opportunities for Civil Engineers...any ideas? Thanks

how good are your grades? Where did you do your degree? I qualified 08 and prob applied to 50 places and got one interview and got the job. Got let go recently though. If your unemploied now you will have to apply to a lot of places to even have a hope id imagine. I dont want to sound harsh but you have to face reality, unless your grades are very good i doubt the esbi or arub are interested as there is so much compitition.

gnolan

To answer those questions, don't have a job, but looking. Have a II.I honours degree and those 7 months experience working on site.

I'm sick of applying to recruitment places on jobs.ie and the like, such as Atlantco. You never hear back from them, i wonder sometimes if they even have jobs or they're just teasing!

lau1247

not sure of this.. have you try kingspan?

gnolan

lau1247 wrote: »

not sure of this.. have you try kingspan?

Tried them a long time ago, before i got my last job. Never thought of trying them again, probably worth a shot.

EDIT: Took a look at the Grad Recruitment section and:

"Due to our continued success in graduate recruitment, the Kingspan graduate management development programme is currently full and we are not seeking applications at present.

Please revisit this website in the future to check the status of our graduate recruitment."

godtabh

always apply directly. Cheaper for the company who needs you

gnolan

kearnsr wrote: »

always apply directly. Cheaper for the company who needs you

Yeah, but the majority of the time the client that the recruitment company is representing is not disclosed, for that very reason. I assume this is what you're referring to

godtabh

gnolan wrote: »

Yeah, but the majority of the time the client that the recruitment company is representing is not disclosed, for that very reason. I assume this is what you're referring to

USe the golden pages, the internet there is so many resources for finding engineering companies. Your the one looking for a job. You need to use everything you can

If you can't find anything consider looking up North, there's still some work up there I believe.

gnolan

I have read that engineers are required in the energy sector, a sector in which i do have a certain amount of interest. Like i say, i have applied to ESBI and have also applied to SEI. Is there anywhere else that i should be looking to apply to?

Ninja101

Dude, you should be applying to everyone. And i mean EVERYONE!! It should be a veritable BLITZKREIG of job applications. You should be sending out hundreds of emails everyday, and bombarding whoever you can think of with phone calls. Don't forget that thousands of people are going for each job and it's getting worse and worse everyday.

If you're a civil eng try all the consultants, contractors, agencies, county councils, government bodies, charities etc you can google in Ireland, UK, Aus/NZ, Middle East, US etc.. EVerywhere's tight at the moment. You picked an unlucky time to qualify. Just keep at it and keep wracking your brains.

Alternatively look at doing a welding course and go work in Alaska!

Darren1o1

Ninja101 wrote: »

Alternatively look at doing a welding course and go work in Alaska!

Alaska requires work Visa's, which in the US can become complex/messy.

Ninja101

Oh Jesus. You should go to Alaska too.

aquascrotum

Very slim pickings at the mo. I've just landed a job but I was very jammy and had to call on just about every favour I could - also entails moving back to NI and taking a drastic paycut (less than what I was paid last time I worked in NI).

There's no recruitment at all in RoI, NI is/was ok in places but most I've spoken to are putting up the barricades due to the first influx of returning exiled norners (like meself) bringing back increasing tales of woe. My old boss in NI told me that for 4-years previous to this he practically couldn't buy an engineer to work for him, he's now getting double figure number of CV's per day (mostly from Dublin) - and they're all going in the bin. Another former boss is screening former staff of their Dublin office (recently closed) to try and give them a chance before looking outside.

I had little luck in sourcing anything on mainland UK either - whereas a year ago you could take the "minimum requirements" for the job with a pinch of salt, now there are pretty senior staff going for all positions, and anything outside of a graduate program for project engineer level or lower is just a non starter. I applied directly for several jobs (actual positions advertised, not agency-makey-uppy-ones) that I was really well qualified in, and wasn't shortlisted for any. Feedback was just that there was a huge volume of highly experienced staff going for it and they raised the bar based on that.

No good news at all at the mo unfortunately. Avoid agencies too - every company and every potential position is over subscribed - the employer simply is not going to give an agency fee the time of day when he has an inbox full of CV's gagging for work.