7 things you should do if you want to join GE's engineering graduate scheme

GE has an extensive internship programme and tries to fill as many of its graduate roles as possible with interns. ‘It’s try before you buy,’ says Lorna Bullett, head of GE’s early talent recruitment team in the UK. ‘The graduate programmes are pretty intensive so find if people struggle then when they come off the programme they’re going to struggle going into the wider company.’

Around 40 per cent of engineering graduate places still go to people who haven’t done a GE internship. And the company also offers other entry-level roles that aren’t part of the formal graduate scheme.

But GE still likes these candidates to have done some kind of engineering internship. ‘Ideally we would have liked them to have done an internship for a year or at least a summer, and something that’s relevant to the role,’ says Bullett. ‘Although as long as it’s in a similar technical environment it doesn’t matter what industry it’s in.’