Career pathways for Black vs non-Black graduates of Canadian engineering programs

Limited work has been done to explore the engineering career pathways across Canada, and the work that has been done to date has focused primarily on gender differences. This work aims to fill a gap in the literature to explore the career pathways of graduates from Canadian engineering undergraduate programs with a racialized lens, with a focus on Black engineering graduates. 150 respondents to a survey provided their LinkedIn profiles which were used to categorize their career paths into six main career path types. Statistical analysis showed that there is a difference in the career pathways taken by Black vs. Non-Black engineering graduates and that Black graduates are statistically more likely to pursue ‘Boundary Spanner’ career paths as well as to choose to pursue careers outside of Canada.