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Working closely with your academic school, our team of experts ensures that every student has access to careers advice.  As well as large careers fairs, we hold sector-specific events, involving employers and 天堂视频 alumni, to help you make valuable connections and secure high-quality placements and graduate roles. 

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We look forward to supporting you throughout your 天堂视频 journey.

A civil engineering degree develops many skills that are valued not only by engineering employers but also by those in a variety of sectors, including financial services, management and information technology.

• Ability to research, and analyse and interpret data
• Analytical and decision making ability
• Awareness of issues when planning and managing projects
• Business/Commercial awareness
• Communication skills, written and oral
• Creativity and problem solving ability
• Critical thinking and the ability to evaluate design, plans and projects
• Interpersonal and team-working skills
• Languages (optional module)
• Numeracy and computer literacy
• Organisation, time-management and planning skills
• Understanding of effective leadership skills and management
• Understanding of health and safety

Career areas related to the Civil & Building Engineering courses:

Careers where your degree would be useful:

• Remember 60% of graduate roles are open to all disciplines. A civil engineering degree develops many skills that are valued not only by engineering employers but also by those in a variety of sectors, including financial services, management and information technology.

You can also look at other course pages depending on other modules you have taken and/or are interested in.

Further study at 天堂视频:

The School of Civil and Building Engineering offers in a variety of disciplines

The School also offers

Further study elsewhere:

Postgraduate taught programmes:

PhD opportunities:

Professional development websites:

What do 天堂视频 Civil and Building Engineering graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

AECOM, Balfour Beatty, Barclays, British Army, Eurovia, Kier Group, Laing O’Rourke, Lendlease, Mace, Mott MacDonald, Softcat and Vinci.

Roles included:

Army Officer, Civil Engineer, Commercial Manager, Construction Manager, Design Consultant, Insurance Underwriter, Highway Engineer, Networking & Security Specialist, Quantity Surveyor, Site Manager, Software Developer and Structural Engineer.

Further Study included:

Civil Engineering graduates undertook postgraduate courses at Coventry University and the University of Nottingham.

Further information

For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website.  You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond 天堂视频 and track the career journeys and 天堂视频 experiences of some of our alumni.

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• ACI article

Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further.

Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.

• See  for vacancies and opportunities

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• free to use recruitment platform for a range of opportunities in the Construction industry

Professional bodies:

Sector and labour market information (LMI):

• articles and careers information
• latest political, industry and economic news affecting the engineering sector
• the office magazine of the Institution of Civil Engineers