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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Entry-level engineering positions often require strong leadership and project management skills; some employers report spending a significant amount of time training new hires in these skills. They feel that capstone projects and additional group-focused coursework would help build these skills.
| "Our engineers actually develop into leadership and management roles. And the only way to get to that point is to start at the ground floor and work your way up. And these engineers aren't doing engineering work 100 percent of the time. Mostly, in our business, it's field-based engineers. Of those 60 at any property, maybe 10 of them are doing pure engineering. The other ones are managers; they're up there with maintenance. They're running the operations." | Northeast |
| "Maybe the leadership end of it. That's where we find we spend most of our training with the early career type people in leadership roles, in developing them into the future managers of our business." | Northeast |
| "University systems, I don't believe, have anything on leading, but some of the mining schools do." | Northeast |