- Plan Your Education
- Explore Education Options
- Prepare for College
- Pay for College
- Apply to College
- How to Choose a Major
- Education Search Tools
Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Soft skills training topics include project management, leadership training, business processes, problem-solving, and client relations.
| "Another area is practical problem-solving. The ability to get to the root cause of some of the challenges that some of the engineers are facing. There is a process, there is a plan, there is a method that can be used to identify what the root causes of the problems are so that you can identify them, get them corrected, and then get back to working on other things. But working with engineers in that area is challenging because the attitude is, 'I'm an engineer. I know better. I know how to do this.' Which may be very true. But they look at a set of problems with one framework, and we'll come in and say, 'There are other ways for you to look at that, that might be faster, quicker, or cheaper to get you to a point where you need to be.'" | Metro |
| "We used to have an MBA [program] for our engineers. At least, we approved a lot of additional funding for education a couple of years ago. So, I know they're going on to [non-MnSCU college]. A couple of people are going back and getting MBAs. And there are a couple of project management organizations that offer some scheduling and project management." | Metro |
| "It is usually specialized training in some particular area. It could be certain modeling skills. It could be regulatory aspects of some particular kind of our work. It could be issues related to the chemistry of rock mining. So, it's kind of specialized technical areas where we get advanced training. And while they're here, there's also project management training and those kinds of skills as well." | Metro |
| "Because of our organizational structure and our consulting, we need employees—both entry-level and particularly experienced hires—who can build the relationship, sell the services, and cross sell the services. We need people that can build an internal network across different divisions of the company. We also need employees who can communicate with clients, who are interested in understanding everything that we do, and who can bring the right people in. So, having that influence and those consultation skills is really important for experienced people and for people who want to be able to advance to project management or principal levels." | Metro |
| "We have quite a few project management and leadership training courses for incumbents. We bring in a consultant to train, yeah." | Metro |
| "Probably project management training for incumbents. Developing the engineer and client relationships, building and maintaining internal teams, and then also budget management—that sort of thing. So, it's not necessarily building on the technical skills—although we do that, too—but more of leadership and management type of delegation." | Metro |
| "Over the years, I think we've been doing a lot more training in leadership and just taking the initiative. Every one of us can do more things in leadership, but to go through some of the programs and actually bring somebody on-site—we actually developed a leadership program. That was really good for everybody, not just the engineers." | Northwest |
| "One of the things that I hear a lot—and that I used to see in organizations no matter what type of industry it was—is the situation where people can't problem-solve. They identify an issue, and they don't know how to solve it. And that's a soft skill. Whether it's an incumbent worker or a new graduate, it's an area where we are finding that the worker lacks ability—to solve a problem, to get to the root cause of the problem. Problem-solving is something that I think is being taught to some degree, but I think there needs to be a greater emphasis on it." | Southwest |
| "We have actually set up a formal program. We call it Engineering University. New engineers are required to take TPC online classes. TPC is a company that sells online services, and they break down a lot of stuff. So, the new engineers learn about business processes and other things within the systems." | Southwest |