Career Prospects at Arup

I think there is a clear path set forward to being promoted and details on how long each will take and the requirements to be promoted have been shared with us, so we have a good idea of our next steps and what we should be working on to be promoted.

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Unsure yet.

After finishing the graduate program, you're a get promoted to consultant/engineer

Quite slow promotion progress even if someone were to perform very well and exceed expectations

There are appraisals. Aside from that, I'm uncertain of specific promotion opportunities that it takes to move up the ranks of the company.

It appears impossible to progress quickly through the grad program. We have some grads who have presented at conferences, or who run small projects almost alone, or become invaluable to teams outside their own offices - but the progression is set for the first three years (though not in writing)

Arup has 9 grades, I am currently grade 2 and will be grade 3 by the end of fhe grad program. As an engineer I have a substantial amount of career progression ahead

We have our first appraisal in November, 9 months after starting working. I have been told nothing about this in the grad program and only learnt about it through a mentor I sought out. I believe that as a grad I have no opportunities for advancement until I complete the program. I have heard that global mobility - the group allowing employees to work on short or long term assignments in different offices are notoriously difficult to work with and unsupportive which is unfortunate given how many people would like the opportunity to travel and with how highly the experience is valued by leadership.

It takes developing your skills

I am concerned for promotion/pay rise opportunities at my company. Thankfully, I am an outgoing person who wont sit back and go with the flow, so I will be outwardly working to prove my worth to the team, such that the HR department can give me an acceptable pay rise equivalent to not only my efforts but also to the market-value of my position. I will have to work more to get the same amount of pay as people I know at the same career stage in the same industry

Grad program is a bit too rigid in making advisory grads go through the full 18 month program with no earlier opportunity for progression. This is noted as a limitation by management

You are promoted to each level pretty quickly in first three years then it slightly stagnates at grade 6

Once I finish the grad program next year I will be promoted, other than that, increasing technical proficiency (working towards getting chartered), gaining wider experience (working overseas) and moving into management seem to lead to promotions.