General Engineer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Engineering

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General Engineer Skills List in Engineering

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a General Engineer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of General Engineer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 38% of General Engineer job descriptions contained engineering as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

engineering
38%
electrical engineering
38%
marine engineering
25%
validation
25%
testing
25%
evaluation
25%
emc
25%
electronic/electrical
25%
mechanical engineering
13%
mod
13%
electronic engineering
13%
maintenance
13%
controls and automation
13%
software engineering
13%
naval architecture
13%
development engineer
13%
engineer
13%
precision engineering
13%
design drawings
13%
diamonds
13%
drawings
13%
laboratory
13%
manufacturing
13%
silicon
13%
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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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