Top 8 career options after bachelor degree in Civil Engineering.

This is for all civil engineering graduates looking for career options/work opportunities after completing B.Tech or B.E. in civil engineering. Civil engineers do not need to be told that they can work in any infrastructure project in India. This ranges from construction and maintenance of bridges, power stations, airports, dams, highways, express ways, waterways, industrial units, manufacturing plants, Building and factories etc. 

If you have interest in design, construction and creativity of natural or physical build environment, then civil engineering is the best disciplines for you to prove your ability and find the career which you wish to.

Civil engineering is second oldest professional degree in the field of engineering after Mechanical In past, it was known as the “Military Engineering”.

Some of the great and global popular monuments like Taj Mahal, Eifel Tower, Dubai Resort, great wall of China and recently Burj Khalifa  etc. are the best example to prove that how important and valuable branch of engineering is this?

From roads constructions, building constructions, port constructions to river and township planning & construction, metro rails all are the workplace for civil engineering branch.

You have following options once you complete civil engineering in India.

1. Start a job in Construction, Real Estate, and Infrastructure & project industry as a site engineer or for any profile which suits your academic. Register yourself on all the major job portals and start applying for the jobs.

2. GATE Exam: 

You can give it a try. Go for M.Tech in Civil Engineering with a specialization of your choice. After your M. Tech or M.E. you can also start your career in academics as an Asst.Professor if you have interest in teaching. Following are the options to choose for a M.Tech post-graduation degree.

• Structural Engineering
• Environment Engineering
• Geo-technical Engineering
• Construction Management
• Traffic and Transportation Engineering
• Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering
• Geo-informatics
• Transportation Engineering
• Water Resource Engineering

 3. Government Exams for class one post 

IES: Indian Engineering Services. Also you can go for CSIR fellowship Believe me. You are now eligible to apply.

4. Job opportunity in Public sector Undertakings (PSUs): 

If you are technically strong, you can apply for PSU's. Now days they are mainly dependent on GATE score. They are publishing advertisement regularly in the national news papers. So, prepare hard for GATE. Practically all civil service positions in public works departments are held by civil engineers.

Some Government departments like Department of Atomic energy etc conduct their own exams for recruitment. Following are the major Public Sector Companies hiring Civil Engineering Graduates:

NTPC - National Thermal Power Corporation Limited

BHEL - Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

ONGC - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited

HAL - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

GAIL - Gas Authority of India Limited

SAIL - Steel Authority of India Limited

IOCL - Indian Oil Corporation

BSNL - Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization

5. State Government Jobs: State Public work departments (PWD) and other engineering departments have regular recruitment for civil engineering graduates and it is comparatively easy to crack. You are also eligible for Bank Jobs in India. (Bank PO's) one of the very lucrative career option now a days.

6. Higher studies: MBA or Construction/Project management in India

You can as well attempt CAT with your engineering degree. If you are fortunate enough, you may get into some IIM.

If you wish to shift to management after Civil engineering, you can as well give a thought on Construction Management/Project Management programmes.

Colleges from where you can pursue Construction/Project Management.

7. Go for M.S. in Civil Engineering in U.S. UK, South East Asia or Australia

Depending on your score in GRE, preferably 300+ you can choose one of the top ranking universities for M.S in civil engineering with a specialization of your choice in foreign  universities.

8. Start a civil engineering entrepreneurial venture in India.

Although there are very few names in India, the picture is changing quite fast. This is an untapped market and therefore has the biggest potential. Civil Engineers can team to innovate and come up with ideas that better the process of design & construction. 

A Bachelor's degree doesn't teach enough theoretical or practical knowledge for you to meet the requirements of the industry, be it the private sector or the public sector. That’s why there is always a year-long probationary training period for all graduate level entrants? And the work you do is more or less trivial, not involving many things you learned in your course.

Pursuing the careers in civil engineering is one the most searched, most discussed and probably the hottest topic in terms of job availability in today’s time in most of the countries around the globe. Finding the right career in any field of interest is one of the toughest job for those people who are a bit confused about their futuristic plan but flexible in any working environment, but if the proper guidance and information about the concerned issue is provided then the issue can be easily solved with greater precision without losing our value time. Before opting a field as a career one must have the answers to some definite questions which play a vital role in anyone’s career because, with every passing day, the world as a global market is becoming tougher and tougher for the existence of new arrivals. So, it is necessary to have proper knowledge about the concerned field before opting it as career.