Career Advising

First Year Engineering Student Checklist

Discover the first step in career planning

• Career planning workshop by the Career Development Center in Qatar University.
• Start thinking about the types of jobs that would be interesting
  • Attend company information sessions
  • Industry panels
  • The career fairs
  • Listen to what engineers in your field are doing.Career Library

Attend a workshop on "How to Write a Resume (resume template)".

Second Year Engineering Student Checklist

• Update your resume - add any relevant experience or soft-skills that you gained over the previous semester or summer.
• Create your career plan.
• Attend Discover your Career events (career trips, panel discussions, info sessions, workshops) provided by the Career Development Center.
• Participate in student organizations - take an active role!

Third Year Engineering Student Checklist

• It is time to create a LinkedIn profile
• Have you participated in student organizations!
• Start looking for internship opportunities in line with your career plan.
• Attend various workshops empowering your Engineering technical skills.
• Begin to think about the next step (graduate school vs. job)

Senior Engineering Student Checklist

• Update your resume and your LinkedIn profile - add any relevant experience or soft-skills that you gained over the previous semester or summer
• Develop a strategy for job hunting:
  • Target the companies that do the type of work you want and develop a systematic plan to apply to these companies.
• Attend the
  • Career fairs company
  • Information sessions
  • Industry panels.
• Attend various workshops empowering your skills
  • interview skills
  • Presentation
  • problem solving
  • Teamwork etc.
  • (visit the Career Development Center’s YouTube channel for online workshops)