Knowing the starting salary in your industry can not only show you’re knowledgeable about the field – it’s also something you should be aware of when you start your job search. We’ve put together the average starting salaries for engineers working in four different major cities in Canada.
Kim is a Protection and Control Engineer from Rocky Bay First Nation on Lake Nipigon in northwestern Ontario who has been working at Hydro One for the past six years – ever since she graduated from Lakehead University.
This summer fourth year Ryerson University chemical engineering student Hussein Hashi had the opportunity to complete an internship as a Research Assistant at the University of Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany. Read more about his experience and tips for other students.
“There are great people here to mentor me through this early phase of my career. Most of our projects are fairly large in scope, which means multiple people are working on it and it requires team work.” –Abe Kohandel, a new grad engineer at Pason who graduated from the University of Calgary’s electrical engineering program earlier this year
Syed says the research he did in grad school was very applicable to Hydro One and impressed the person who interviewed him for the company’s new grad program.
Jerry, a co-op student at Hydro One, tells us how he won Hydro One’s prestigious William Peyton Hubbard Memorial Award and what he does on a daily basis during his co-op work term.
Find out how to “engineer your career” starting in first year and throughout your undergraduate degree, featuring tips from an Engineer-in-Training, a Team Leader and a Manager from Talisman Energy, a global upstream oil and gas company.
With a 40% retirement rate and new deposits being discovered regularly, thousands of additional workers will be needed each year by mining employers to meet anticipated Canadian production targets to the year 2016.