do you want to know the secrets of how to be a successful civil engineer? Well watch this video
as i will be sharing with you all the secrets that nobody will tell you Hi my name is Greg and i'm a
civil site engineer with now well over 10 years of work experience on construction site so the
very first thing the very first secret i would say would be start on construction site as soon as you
can do all you can to get your first job on site and i'm not only talking here about getting a job
as a junior engineer or as a assistant engineer as this obviously would be the best case but guys i
know many engineers who actually started doing the different trade working as a ground workers gps
and then they jumped for the engineering and i myself actually when i started here in uk
i was first working as a still fixer when i was already a master degree engineer i asked for a
work there on site and then i met the engineers i asked them what to do in my case i already
had an education so then i found out i need to send my papers to uk naric to get my white cscs card
and all the steps i need to take to get to the civil engineering role and then i actually found
a job as a junior engineer assistant engineer on site and grant works and frame contractor and
then after a couple of weeks working like this i jump to my first engineering position so i'll
be the best example of it guys just go on site and there's a few companies guys look i found this one
lastly training academy OHOB this is a groundworks and frame contractor here and as you can see
they got pre-employment courses so even if you don't have a cscs card any experience guys you
can go on one of the courses you can be like for false work introductory still fixing introductory
and the ground wars and they're going to offer you job and this is very important guys
especially if you live in London if you live in uk it's quite expensive so this way you can get
your first job there on site you're going to see how the site looks you're going to meet engineers
you're going to be actually working close with the engineers and then you're going to speak
with engineers like i did myself you're going to see how they work you're gonna be working closely
with them as well and maybe they're gonna need some assistance so that'll be the best way to get
to your first assistant role guys and obviously as i said you're gonna be making some money so
this is very good and when you go on that course obviously you're not gonna be talking there you
wanna be engineer you just slowly get there get your cscs card get on site try to get on site grab
one of the roles they got for you make some money and then you say you want to be a civil engineer
that maybe you got education you got education then tell them i got an education i want to see
how the site works all the stuff and I guarantee you that's the best way that's one of the secrets
actually to get to the civil engineering position guys the next little secret i got for
you guys would be to start for the frames and the groundworks contractor and i know i always repeat
in this but the reason for it guys is they always need the engineers and especially the setting out
engineers there's always so many jobs residentials infrastructure the engineers are always needed
there in the frames contractor if you're gonna be looking like a steel frame something like
this it not might be that easy and trust me that won't be the easiest way to get the job and i'm
the best example as well of this and the first engineering job i get was with the reading tones
when i actually started working on the residential project and getting a job here as i said you can
go through two side to completely other trade and you can start straight away as a setting out
engineer or as a junior engineer but in this case you need some skills you would need to know maybe
how the instrument works about the levelling about the setting out so that'll be few things
you actually need to know to start like this but another one guys is the bigger the job is the less
responsibilities you're gonna have so if they're gonna be huge job you might be doing the setting
out only and the smaller the job you're actually gonna have more responsibilities you're gonna be
responsible for QA stuff like this or maybe the rebar drawing which you might not be comfortable
yet so try to look for some big job where your responsibility is going to be narrow but then you
have to be very good at them obviously so another little secret for successful civil engineers gonna
be to work hard to go that extra mile and in our case guys that's gonna be to go that extra hours
and believe me guys this is very important as people are watching you they know what you're
doing and obviously in construction industry you're gonna be judged by what you do not what
you know so that's another one to give that extra bit from yourself and then gonna guarantee you're
gonna be a successful civil engineer and you carry you're gonna progress as you wish and another
little secret guys for the successful civil engineers gonna be the change change and change
i'm talking here about the changing companies changing the jobs and i was doing myself this i
was changing from the companies to the companies making more money sometimes going back to the
same company i worked before and that's the best thing you can do at the beginning of your career
and as i said that might surprise you a little bit but only this way you're going to get the best
experience working on different projects working for other companies and the important thing as
well here is the money you're going to be getting as working for the one company you're never going
to be advanced so much you're never going to get the money that other company will pay you straight
away when you change so that's another one why you need to keep changing and keep changing guys and
i know some of you might say that greg and my cv gonna be looking strange that i was jumping
from the company to company guys i recommend working self-employed as well at the beginning
especially and then when you're gonna be jumping trying different things you can always say
i work like this first two years i work as a freelance engineer and then you can actually point
what you are doing there through that time so it's simple the more jobs you're working the more
things you were doing so your experience gonna be much bigger so even within one year you can
get experience like people getting in few years and trust me guys this is true as i work myself
with the engineers who work already few years and they didn't know a lot of stuff they could learn
on other projects they're continuing to do the slab slab snap snap stuff for the one year the
same copy paste copy paste it's no good it's not good so guys that will be secrets of a successful
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