I just graduated in May with a mining engineering degree and I’m in Sudbury — where are you finding junior mine engineer/EIT roles beyond LinkedIn and Careermine? Are SME or CIM chapter meetups and big events like MINExpo leading to interviews, and any tips on who to approach or what to bring so I make the most of it?
If you want something “beyond LinkedIn and Careermine”, what worked for me in Sudbury was getting to the CIM Sudbury Section lunch 20 minutes early and asking the speaker (often a tech services lead) for a 10‑minute coffee. I handed over a single one‑pager with my capstone stope design and quick vent calcs, and it turned into two EIT interviews the same week; big shows like MINExpo felt too diffuse by comparison. Want a simple template for that one‑pager?
Skip big shows like MINExpo for now; in Sudbury, hit the contractors and OEMs directly — Redpath, Technica, DMC, Cementation, Maestro — most hire EITs off-cycle and post on their own sites and on MineConnect. Bring PPE and a printed resume plus one short “stope design” or vent model you can talk through, and ask the mine/project engineer for a 10-minute chat after shift line-up. @paul5901’s meetup idea is solid, but this door-knock route has gotten me faster callbacks: https://mineconnect.com/jobs.