Resources for Engineers
Learning resources
- Returning to STEM: Free 8 week Open University course to help you to get back into STEM
- Reboot Your STEM Career: Interactive toolkit to help STEM professionals to relaunch their career after a break
- Thinking Ahead: Two-week engineering online taster programme with The Engineering and Design Institute
Professional associations and networks
- Women’s Engineering Society (WES)
- MentorSET – one-to-one mentoring for women in and returning to STEM fields, co-ordinated by WES
- ICE – coaching and support for returning civil engineers
- Women into construction – training and work placements for women wanting to work in construction
- SET Women
- Equate Scotland – Support for STEM women in Scotland at all career stages
- WISE Campaign
- IET Women’s Network Community
Strategic Volunteering
- Stem Ambassadors. Volunteering opportunities for STEM returners.
Professional bodies with re-entry programmes
- Daphne Jackson Fellowships – Fellowships with mentoring and training to help people with backgrounds in STEM to return after career break
Success stories
- Returning to engineering with SCS JV: Anne’s story (10 year career break)
- Returning to engineering at Skanska: Aliaa’s story (10 year career break)
- Returning to transport engineering at Mott MacDonald: Maha’s Story (6 year career break)
- Returning to mechanical engineering at Skanska: Kate’s story (6 year career break)
- Returning to civil engineering at Balfour Beatty: Antje’s story (9 year career break)
- Returning to civil engineering at Tideway: Carolien’s Story (2 year career break)
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