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Roles that share your skills

Pick the role you do now. See adjacent roles that ask for the same skills, what carries over, and what you would be missing.

Showing adjacent roles for Mechanical Engineers — switch role below

Engineering

What Mechanical Engineers shares with adjacent roles

Mechanical Engineers lists 10 core skills. Each role below shares overlapping skills you can highlight when pivoting.

Architects, Except Landscape and Naval

1 shared skill

Carries over

AutoCAD

You would be missing

Revit (BIM)LEED CertificationArchitectural Design & DraftingBuilding Codes & Zoning ComplianceConstruction DocumentationSchematic DesignProject Management (PMP)SketchUp / Rhino 3DAIA Contract Administration

Civil Engineers

1 shared skill

Carries over

AutoCAD

You would be missing

Civil 3DStructural analysisStormwater managementASCE standardsGeotechnical engineeringProject cost estimationHEC-RAS hydraulic modelingPE licensureConstruction document preparation

What does not travel

No adjacent role above lists these specialist skills — keep them compact when pivoting.

SolidWorksFEA (Finite Element Analysis)GD&TANSYSMATLABThermodynamicsSix SigmaDFM (Design for Manufacturability)PLC Programming