Communication skills cover written and verbal abilities, and interpersonal skills. It’s about how we interact with others, what media we use for what message, and whether the message we are trying to convey is what’s actually coming across. In our working life we’ll have to deal with many different people at different levels of seniority.

It’s important to be able to identify the most important facts and communicate these clearly, concisely and enthusiastically to a team. Being organized and aware of time constraints and remaining courteous and respectful in stressful situations are also important leadership qualities.

Teamwork is a huge part of working life for engineering, so recruiters are looking for companies who realize that they can achieve more as part of a team than as individuals and focus on working towards common goals. They are impressed by graduates who actively participate; are open and respectful; and who support others.

A crucial aspect of problem solving is the ability to extract the key facts from a mass of information and keep them in hand in a quickly accessible format. This will make it much easier for us to keep our points in a group discussion and our notes may be collected and analyzed afterwards by the assessors.

Our Successful engineers can use well laid-out plans as a tool to influence others, inspiring confidence and making it easier to communicate what will happen and identify any problems. At work, we have to plan our own day-to-day tasks and those of others, as well as organise long-term projects. 

Enthusiasm is important in our work with others. To engage and lead a team and to work well with customers, it’s a big help to be keen about the task in hand – we believe in ourselves to be able to convey it to others. In group exercises, showing enthusiasm can help bring the team together and lead it forward.

For some engineering positions we’ll be expected to be flexible geographically, heading off to different sites and offices around the country or abroad on a long-term or short-term basis. Employers will still be keen to see a flexible mindset to deal with new methods and processes, enthusiasm for doing new things and willingness.

Our Engineers and staffs enable to understand and build relationships with their customers, suppliers, teams, managers and other key stakeholders. It’s often not possible to choose who you work with so we enable to assess others’ behavior and adapt to it. Because of this recruiters often observe our employees and engineers.