ANOTHER TWO PEOPLE INTO WORK THIS WEEK
ANOTHER TWO PEOPLE INTO WORK THIS WEEK! Some more good news from The Graduate Coach™ community. This week, another two people secured employment: ✅ An Electronics Engineer who will be…
I’ve been working with a mechanical graduate engineer for about 9 months now.
It hasn’t been easy for him.
There have been personal challenges, professional setbacks, and long periods where progress felt slow.
But here’s the good news 👇
I’ve always believed this to be true:
The more you know, the easier it is to get work.
The more experience you have, the easier it is to get onto projects.
The real challenge is this:
👉 If you have no experience, and no one is willing to give you a chance… where do you get it?
That’s where most graduates get stuck.
Over the years, I’ve built sector-specific learning modules to help graduates understand what they’re actually moving into not just job titles, but:
• how industries work
• what engineers really do day to day
• how projects are structured
• what language hiring managers expect you to speak
The results have been clear.
Graduates who were long-term unemployed or stuck for months are now getting:
• interviews within 2–3 months
• meaningful conversations with managers
• clearer pathways into work
In this case, the progress has been huge.
This graduate hasn’t landed a full-time graduate engineer role yet but he has secured something just as important:
✅ a paid internship-style role
✅ working with P&IDs and PFDs
✅ exposure to CapEx projects
✅ inside the food manufacturing sector
Six months ago, this wasn’t even remotely possible for him.
Not because he wasn’t capable
but because he didn’t understand the sector.
Now he does.
He’s laid the foundations, he’s not taking shortcuts, and he’s no longer trying to rush to the finish line.
He now realises something important:
Now, he’s genuinely catching up.
And because of that, I have no doubt:
he will move into a full-time role this year
This applies to all graduates struggling to find work:
• Once you pick a sector
• Once you learn how that sector actually works
• Once you understand how your discipline fits into it
👉 Your life gets much easier.
One final reminder:
🚫 Mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, electronics, process & chemical are not sectors
✅ They are disciplines
Your success comes from how you apply your discipline to a sector:
• food manufacturing
• mining
• energy
• water
• infrastructure
Sector knowledge is the unlock.
No shortcuts.
No guessing.
Just foundations, consistency, and direction.
Mark , Graduate Coach, if you need help HIT the link below
