Civil Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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Civil Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Civil role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Civil job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 43% of Civil job descriptions contained civil as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

civil
43%
civil engineer
37%
engineering
37%
structural
32%
technician
32%
junior
27%
cad
27%
inventor
27%
autocad
27%
3d
27%
2d
27%
solidworks
27%
construction
27%
engineer
27%
technical
27%
graduate
27%
industrial
27%
project
27%
design
22%
crewe
16%
cheadle
16%
leek
16%
stoke-on-trent
16%
congleton
16%
apprenticeship
11%
worcester
11%
stratford-upon-avon
11%
redditch
11%
leamington spa
11%
bromsgrove
11%
birmingham
11%
power networks
11%
consultancy
6%
computational modelling
6%
commercial
6%
domestic
6%
geotechnical
6%
pds
6%
residential
6%
civils
6%
blast damage
6%
structural engineering
6%
civil engineering
6%
senior civil engineer
6%
northern ireland
6%
belfast
6%
senior
6%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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