The Student Room Group

Should i add shift engineer to my grad CV

So I landed a shift engineeeing role not a technical graduate mechanical engineering role so I was wondering when I apply to grad schemes as I hope to still land a graduate mechanical engineering role at a firm should I include my shift engineering role or would It put recruiters off as I’ve landed a shift engineering role and not want to give me a chance which I don’t plan on stay at for so long

Reply 1

Original post
by moe9090
So I landed a shift engineeeing role not a technical graduate mechanical engineering role so I was wondering when I apply to grad schemes as I hope to still land a graduate mechanical engineering role at a firm should I include my shift engineering role or would It put recruiters off as I’ve landed a shift engineering role and not want to give me a chance which I don’t plan on stay at for so long
I think you should include it, but you should do a couple things.

1) show the shift engineering role (im not sure what “shift engineering is”?), is valuable to a technical professional engineering position. Do you work under pressure, solve problems, manage stakeholders… find ways of linking the job to the positions you’re interested in.

2) Have a clear story for the industry or type or roles you’re applying for, and a solid explanation for how this shift job, explaining you wanted a short term job and professional experience whilst you searched for your first proper graduate role is acceptable.

Reply 2

Original post
by moe9090
So I landed a shift engineeeing role not a technical graduate mechanical engineering role so I was wondering when I apply to grad schemes as I hope to still land a graduate mechanical engineering role at a firm should I include my shift engineering role or would It put recruiters off as I’ve landed a shift engineering role and not want to give me a chance which I don’t plan on stay at for so long

Yes definitely. Presumably the role is in a manufacturing or production type environment, where you'll learn technical skills, how to work following procedures, health and safety, etc. All useful stuff and definitely won't put recruiters off - in fact it'll pique the interest of many engineers who review your CV.

Reply 3

Original post
by Smack
Yes definitely. Presumably the role is in a manufacturing or production type environment, where you'll learn technical skills, how to work following procedures, health and safety, etc. All useful stuff and definitely won't put recruiters off - in fact it'll pique the interest of many engineers who review your CV.


Thank you it’s a shift engineering role in a building working with building systems which I want to get into on the more technical side

Reply 4

Original post
by mnot
I think you should include it, but you should do a couple things.
1) show the shift engineering role (im not sure what “shift engineering is”?), is valuable to a technical professional engineering position. Do you work under pressure, solve problems, manage stakeholders… find ways of linking the job to the positions you’re interested in.
2) Have a clear story for the industry or type or roles you’re applying for, and a solid explanation for how this shift job, explaining you wanted a short term job and professional experience whilst you searched for your first proper graduate role is acceptable.


Thank you it should give me hands on insight on how building mechanical systems work I just won’t be designing them just making sure the day to day operations are good my goal is to land a grad scheme where I’ll actually be designing these systems in buildings

Reply 5

Original post
by moe9090
Thank you it should give me hands on insight on how building mechanical systems work I just won’t be designing them just making sure the day to day operations are good my goal is to land a grad scheme where I’ll actually be designing these systems in buildings
To be honest that actually sounds very relevant, and easy to make it applicable to lots of graduate recruitment. It’s about framing the skills and experience to your future jobs.

Also look at graduate level engineering jobs, the formal graduate schemes represent a fraction of the graduate engineering jobs and are very heavily oversubscribed to.

Quick Reply

How The Student Room is moderated

To keep The Student Room safe for everyone, we moderate posts that are added to the site.