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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Experience & Credentials
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers tend to prefer engineers who have worked in the industry before pursuing an advanced degree, and many companies will selectively reimburse employees to pursue more education.
| "I think we'd rather send existing employees to get an advanced degree rather than them coming in with an advanced degree." | Southwest |
| "Employer 1: We're finding that a number of businesses are no longer reimbursing tuitions for advanced degree programs. Question: Do you reimburse? Employer 2: Selectively probably. Employer 3: Yeah, we reimburse, too. But we have to approve them prior. Employer 4: Typically, we don't push for advanced degrees with any of our engineers. I mean a lot of them get their PE, and we push for that. And there's often refresher courses that are involved before they take the exam." |
Southwest |
| "For our industry, unless they have experience to go along with that advanced degree, they've just narrowed their field of where they can be hired. They might actually be hurting themselves because they're going to expect more pay, and therefore it's going to cost more. And we would rather wait; we want to make sure that they're the right candidate." | Southwest |
| "And then, if they want an advanced degree later, we will reimburse some of the tuition. But, yeah, we've put more emphasis on the PE than the advanced degree." | Southwest |
| "Employer 1: There are some who get their MBA as well as their engineering degree. Employer 2: Do you encourage that? Employer 1: We do." |
Southwest |
| "That's a hard thing for us—the next leader. For example, in our engineering department, we don't have that and it's hard for us to actually find that when we hire." | Southwest |
| "I'm a little biased because I happen to have a master's in general engineering, and I think it opened doors for me. I had a bachelor's degree in the civil field, but I did my master's in general engineering. And that has allowed me to look at engineering in a broader perspective. I can understand some of the other areas. And when we're talking about curriculum or what the universities are to provide, I think having—whether it'd even be a civil—being able to take some courses in other areas in their advanced degree. They don't do that in the undergraduate program because they're so limited in the courses they can take. But in the advanced degree, being able to take some broader courses, if you want a perspective in terms of engineering, may be of benefit to us. And I think that it will help us find some of the—if you want to call them 'experiences'—that we need for our companies. Just a thought." | Southwest |