[ID:7111]Engineering Careers Abroad will give you a sense of what it takes to be an engineer working internationally. If you are an engineering student or recent graduate, you need to know what your options are and how to go about achieving success in the international field. This section was created to help guide you through this process.

Top Tips

• Make sure you are doing it for the right reasons: Within the engineering industries, international work experience is generally only valued by firms participating in international projects.
  
• Working as an engineer abroad, you will primarily develop communication and managerial skills: More importantly, you may not develop further technical skills. Projects abroad do not often focus on using the latest technologies.
  
• The standard categories: Engineers who work abroad tend to fall into one of three distinct, broad categories: the international...