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12 Mar 2015

This engineer won a top job with Tata just two weeks after his exclusive internship

An internship doesn’t just look great on your CV; it can also be a shortcut to a permanent job, as one engineer discovered a fortnight after completing his placement with Tata Technologies.

Rally car enthusiast Matthew Jackson scored a first-class motorsport engineering degree from Coventry University in the summer of 2014. It probably helped that he hadn’t spent the previous few months worrying about his future career, having secured his first job way before exams started.

Key to his early career success was an internship scheme unique to Coventry University that sends successful applicants into paid, one-year placements with companies that include GE Aviation, BMW Mini and Tata Technologies, a company that provides engineering services to aerospace and automotive manufacturers around the world.

22-year-old Matthew was selected to spend 12 months with Tata Technologies, partly at the firm’s base on Coventry University Technology Park but also spending time working as a consultant at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and a month working in India with Tata’s CAD (computer-aided design) team.

One of the big advantages of the programme was the degree of responsibility Matthew was given from day one, he told The Student Engineer.

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