Activity C
When describing your work experience or training, you should focus on your achievements and what you gained from the experience. The following description of a job applicant’s work experience does not do this. It is simply a list of duties. Re-write
the information below in a more formal way, adding your own ideas and focusing on the positive outcomes.
MechCo Ltd, UK - Junior Mechanical Engineer
- doing some mechanical construction drawings for people in the electrical design team
- helping my boss
- helping some important people with designing and developing power equipment and systems
- writing some technical rules for using systems and technical reports
- putting together some manuals and writing some instructions on how to operate stuff.
Ruddlings Ltd, UK – Graduate Trainee
- helped with paperwork
- followed project managers and designers around to see what they were doing
- learned about how buildings are heated and ventilated
- went to lots of meetings with different teams like architects, contractors, and fire consultants
- saw how construction projects start and finish.