7.8% Unployment

[DPI]

Do you guys train in-house? Serious question - I noticed that a lot of employers are resorting to hiring immigrants or farming work overseas as opposed to offering in-house training (for folks who are perfectly competent, but happened to be trained in a different field).

We hire college grads with engineering degrees and we do on the job experience, but I wouldn't necessarily call it training. But I am not sure I understand your question. Our engineers have passed their certifications and that is not something you get on the job training for. If your working with 10,000 psi at 1200 degrees you better know what you are doing or someone is going to die.

 

[ez bake]

We hire college grads with engineering degrees and we do on the job experience, but I wouldn't necessarily call it training. But I am not sure I understand your question. Our engineers have passed their certifications and that is not something you get on the job training for. If your working with 10,000 psi at 1200 degrees you better know what you are doing or someone is going to die.

Sorry - "Engineer" has a broad spectrum of meaning in various fields. I wasn't specifically talking about engineers in the oils/nat-gas industry or anything - I've just seen more than a few folks with outstanding qualifications for a similar field (but not the specific field) get rejected for a job because the employer doesn't want to invest any time/training into the employee, but then the job goes un-filled for quite some time (or a contractor is hired, or H1B, or Outsourcing, etc.).