EGA Engineers hold Mock Interviews

Last year the Engineering Graduates Association decided to assist Final Years by conducting Mock Graduate Interviews for those graduates who wished to avail of this service. These interviews were kindly organised by Karina O'Neill Marketing Manager for the College of Engineering and Architecture. We conducted such interviews in October 2013 and we have more planned on Saturday 8th February 2014.

 

While the student uptake of this service was low last year I'm pleased to say that it has now grown to be very popular with Final Years. This is not surprising as it’s a highly useful service of which all Final Year students should avail to improve their prospects of early employment after graduation.

 

To have the benefit of scrutiny of your CV and career progress to date by a senior peer engineer prior to Employer Interview will be of great value.

 

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Firstly the student will get advice on CV preparation to focus on strengths and emphasise positive personal achievements to date. Secondly to be questioned on the quality of your career to date will identify any gaps in learning and experience for any likely employment. Thirdly it will give the student greater confidence to face his or her employment interviews.

 

I am very grateful to the EGA Board members who conducted these interviews on a Saturday morning in their spare time. The interviews have been led by senior Board Members Michael Loughnane, Ann Fingleton, Donal Wyse and Tony O'Brien.

 

The UCD Final Year students will be the richer for this positive life experience. I wish them well as they prepare for their Finals in 2014 and exit from college into the world of work experience.

 

 

Those who have switched to the new 5 year Masters programme (a prerequisite for Chartered Engineer status with Engineers Ireland post 2013) will have a further opportunity to train with mock interviews in 2014/15.

This area of career development is deemed of great importance to the EGA and for that reason we intend inviting the UCD Head of Careers to the next Board meeting in January 2014.