Motorsport/Automotive Engineering Job Hunt

[Niall]

I realise this, but I'm going in as a masters graduate, so I'm hoping my degree is at least worth enough to bypass that bit Like I said, I'm doing all that stuff with Formula Student anyway.

I was hoping you were going to reply, Ripp, got any contacts?

In which case your very misguided. You need to be able to stand out from the crowd of people doing the same course as you and the best way to do that is work experience (not necessarily in the exact role you are training for) so that when you go to companies trying to apply for jobs, you have proved that not only have you got the qualifications but you also have the mentality to work and work well (that is assuming you get a good reference :p).

Don't get too cocky thinking "oh i can just skip that because I've got a degree". There is always people out there that will be better than you at blagging their way into a job so you need to make yourself stand out from the crowd!