Engineering Career Guides
Career exploration is the process of learning about yourself and the world of work, identifying and exploring potentially satisfying occupations, then developing an effective strategy to realize your goals.
We recommend that students start planning their future career as early as possible.
To help you in this process, we have developed the McGill Engineering Student Centre 4-Year Plan, a summary of activities we recommend you get involved in from U0 to U3 to help you plan and prepare for a successful career.
To learn more about different engineering career paths, please begin by consulting the following websites and documents and meet with a Career Advisor:
- National Occupational Classification (Canada)
- Graduating Engineer and Computer Careers
- Occupational Information Network (U.S.A.)
- Sloan Career Cornerstone Centre
- What is a consulting engineer? (Association of Consulting Engineering Companies - Canada)
Career Path Profiles
- Chemical Engineer career profile
- Computer Engineer career profile
- Civil Engineer career profile
- Electrical Engineer career profile
- Materials Engineer career profile
- Mechanical Engineer career proflie
- Mining Engineer career profile
- Software Engineer career profile
Other Career Centres @ McGill
Online Resources
- Going Global
- International Youth Programs
- IAESTE Canada
- The Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas
Working abroad
- Vault Online Career Library (accessible through the McGill Library)
- Mining Industry Human Resources Council
- Branham300 - ICT companies
- The Alliance of Sector Councils
- Eco Canada
Company and industry guides
- McGill CaPS Podcasts
- McGill CaPS Publications
- Nine Steps in the Job Search
- CaPS Jobs Search Handbook
- Career Options Magazine
- JobWeb (U.S. resource)
- Job Choices magazine 2012 (U.S. resource)
Job Search Tools (CV and cover letter writing, Interviewing, Networking)
- Workopolis
- Jobboom
- Talent Egg
- Engineering Careers Network
Job Search Websites
- Government of Canada Labour Market Information
- Salary.com
- Glassdoor
- CaPS Salary Resources
- NACE Salary Calculator (For U.S. salaries)
Salary Information
The following websites will have general salary information. You can also contact an advisor for additional information.
Career Resource Library
We have a number of helpful job search and career planning guides and books that you may borrow. Please drop by and browse our collection.
To see a listing of our hard copy publications that you may borrow as well as those available through CaPS, please click here.