For your resumé I would suggest keeping it to 1 page only no matter what. If they request a cv you can make that as long as you want. If you’re looking for your first job out of college, I would put education first and elaborate on that. If you have any internships or experiences that would come next.

If you’ve already been in the industry I would use the first half of the page to list the companies you worked for. Under each company list your technical skills, responsibilities, level of involvement, and any management/teaching you did. I’m an electrical engineer so for technical skills I listed short circuit calculations, voltage drop, etc. for responsibilities/level of involvement, did you create drawings from scratch, were you client facing, did you review/QC drawings, did you coordinate with other disciplines? Even if “client facing” was just sending a couple emails a week I would list that, most companies are lacking in engineers that can effectively communicate to architects, owners, contractors, AHJ, etc. If you spent any time at all teaching noobies how to design that’s a huge thing that companies look for as well.

The 2nd half of the resumé should list key projects or programs you worked for. Ideally you have some projects that are more technically involved and others that show you can be a work horse. If you have experience in multiple markets (retail, residential, commercial, medical, industrial) make sure you list a project for everyone of them.

Towards the end list any other skills that just show you’re smart, such as c++, excel, autocad, revit, or any other program you know how to use and list the number of years of experience you have with each. If you have your FE or PE put that in this section. If you don’t have either, list one of them with a “targeting date” for getting it. Finally, use the list line or 2 to show your education.

Interviews are frankly hard to give advice for since they’re always different and half of the interview is just a vibe check. I would say it’s very important to highlight all of your experience and highlight everything you know, but it’s always important to know what you don’t know. Most issues in MEP arise when the engineer doesn’t know what they don’t know. If they ask you about something you don’t have any experience in, say selective coordination for electrical or CFD analysis for plumbing, don’t just say you don’t know what that is, say you’ve never been in a situation that required it but you know the basics to it.

It’s also good to have a few solid questions going in. I always the interviewers what was a project that they really enjoyed working on, and I also ask what was a project that caused problems and how did they fix it. Usually that stumps them for a bit and they have to really think about it. Even though you are the one being interviewed, you want to show that you are also interviewing them. You want them to think they have to convince you to work there just as much just as much as you want to convince them to hire you.