re: Engineering New Hires

He’s fricked. It’s well known internships are pretty much THE way a job post college. Someone didn’t put in the effort to find something

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I asked about that and he said there were not.

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Did you believe this obvious lie that there were no career fairs?

Man this is a pretty negative thread. Tell him to target engineering firms if he wants chemical or oil and gas experience, major operating companies are generally shrinking and the industry as a whole is utilizing more contract and “offshore” labor.

The days of being a 30 year engineer for Shell or Chevron aren’t completely gone but if he hasnt had a few internships or a serious connection in those companies, he’s gonna need to hustle up some experience as a contractor. There’s mechanical engineers everywhere, tell him to identify an industry he’s excited about and spend some time trying to find an entry point.

Idle time could be spent sweeping or existing somehow in a pressure vessel shop or industrial machine shop and he’d be ahead of many peers knowing what a flange, nozzle, impeller, bearing, etc. is.

Others have mentioned GPA, but I put that pretty low on my list. I've come across plenty of worthless 4.x'ers and awesome 2.x'ers.

Even if he doesn't have "professional" level experience ... he's a fresh out ... put summer jobs, campus work, project teams at school, etc. Anything that indicates initiative.

The biggest thing I see lacking in current college grads is give-a-shite and work ethic. I haven't figured out how to interpret that through resumes I see.

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He lied to his old man about his college having a career center

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If I see an engineering resume without a summer internship or co-op that tells me all I need to know about a candidate’s give-a-shite

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I've come across plenty of worthless 4.x'ers and awesome 2.x'ers.

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100% possible.

If you are a solid 2.5 candidate then someone will snap you up when you prove it. Quickly.

You will strike out a lot more often <3 than above 3.5.

Internships, co-ops, student activities (ASME Baja, ASCE Steel Bridge/Concrete Canoe...), High gpa, passed the FE....

To name a few.

Also, what does he want to do? MEP Design? O&G? Petrochemicals?

I’ve had juniors/seniors reach out and request a conversation on my role in the company and what I thought managers were looking for. Just had a conversation via Teams / Zoom. If they had potential I asked for their resume and passed their resume along internally.


Your kid is behind. The comments around not thinking the university had services for getting jobs is concerning.

Who graduates in October?

What would be the decision made of someone much older than a fresh grad with no engineering experience being hired as an engineer directly with a major company?