ENGINEERING: A


TRANSFERRABLE SKILL IN HIGH DEMAND


Engineering has long been a safe bet when it comes to securing a first step on the career ladder after university. However, what is often missed when people talk about the career prospects that come with a respected engineering degree is how transferrable these skills are to a wide range of commercial sectors. Today, engineering students are some of the most attractive candidates for top jobs in a range of industries from finance, to internet companies, and even retail.


In the City these “elite” roles are growing by the day but talent for these jobs is in short supply. This talent supply-demand gap has


made hiring managers look more towards “purer” academic students, particularly those in engineering with a strong mathematical basis, rather than those with more practical skills on their resumes.


But it’s not just in the city or in Silicon Valley where engineering students are becoming so much in demand. There’s an increasing emphasis on numerical, analytical, modelling and computational skills including software engineering and data science in pretty much every domain. Since setting up ZLemma.com, an online service to help science, engineering and mathematics students identify jobs most suited to their


talents, I have spoken with recruitment teams at global banks, pharmaceutical firms and even global retailers who have requested our services. Whether it’s optimising manufacturing processes or supermarket layout or predicting shoppers’ behaviour, the skills of engineers in areas such as Numerical Analysis, Machine Learning and Data Structuring is allowing them to build models that make meaningful inferences from large and complex data sets.


As a mentor and tutor to students for a number of years I have seen first-hand the lack of awareness from graduates of the full range of career options open to them.


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