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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Industry Trends
The quotes below are about this issue:
Many engineering firms are experiencing growth in their work with international companies; this increases their need for employees with cultural and language skills.
| "Employer 1: I worked with a company last year who needs an accountant based in the U.S. who speaks Portuguese because they had bought plants in Brazil. So, they wanted a Portuguese fluent person here in Minnesota to communicate with the plant in Brazil. Employer 2: It is going to be more and more like that as we become more international for sure. Employer 3: We were just talking about that not that long ago. We were trying to find a person more on the sales side. And we're going to Europe, so who you want depends on where you're going. We're doing some things in Brazil, too. It is like, okay, Portuguese. Mexico is not a big market for us, so Spanish isn't as important right now, but to go into Canada to speak some French would really be good. We do a lot in Canada, that's why we are number one in the national market, so French would really be nice too." |
Northwest |
| "About 26 percent of our sales are outside of the U.S. Canada is a big chunk of it." | Northwest |
| "I don't know the percentage of international business, but it is very new to us. We've been in Canada for a while, but it's just been in the last two years that we've been starting to branch out beyond Canada. So, this is new territory for us to start dealing with other countries." | Northwest |
| "The multilingual skills, we've started to put that on the project manager job description because they are the ones that are having most of the communication with the customer. But if our engineers have those skills, it's most definitely a plus because we are becoming more and more international." | Northwest |