How is your firm handling hiring, retaining, training engineers? You might be amazed by what others do

Hiring, Retaining & Training Engineers report insights

• About two-thirds (68%) of respondents report that Millennials (Generation Y) are completely or somewhat prepared for this industry.
• Many (68%) of respondents are mentoring junior team members more actively to help deal with the shortage of skilled professionals.

The 2023 Hiring, Retaining & Training Engineers report has been released by Consulting-Specifying Engineer. In it, more than 350 people provide information about how they are filling jobs, what benefits they offer and on continuing education.

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While experience matters, firms are willing to hire young candidates and train them to meet their needs. Courtesy: Consulting-Specifying Engineer

Select findings:

• Fifty-three percent of companies seeking new hires are looking at candidates with 3 to 5 years of experience; 44% 6 to 10 years; 37% 0 to 2 years (entry level).

• The most sought-after professionals are those involved with electrical (57%) or mechanical engineering (50%).

• More than half of companies offer the following benefits to their employees: vacation, sick leave, PTO, etc. (79%); health insurance (71%); casual dress code (62%); life insurance (58%); flexible work schedule (57%); work remotely/at-home privileges (53%); regular performance evaluations (51%).

• Continuing education is considered highly valuable to engineers, with 89% rating it 7 or higher on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 indicated “no value” and 10 indicated “extremely valuable;” 56% gave a rating of 9 or 10.

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