Good news for young engineers
On the domestic labor market, it seems, is forming a new trend. After several years, the former prestige of engineering professions began to slowly but surely recover. Restoration of industry and related industries has directly affected the needs of employers: a good engineer is now, as they say, torn off with his hands. At the same time, the growing demand for designers and designers has a number of not very good "side effects", but first things first.Large recruitment organizations, including job search / staffing websites, provide remarkable statistics. Over the past five years, the number of engineering jobs, depending on the region, has increased three to five times. But at the beginning of this five-year period, in the 2007 year, all the talk about the need to increase the prestige of engineering specialties looked like conversations and not all took them seriously. As we see, further events put everything in its place and after the “era of economists” a new period of increased demand for designers, mechanics, engineers, etc. began. A direct consequence of the specific views of five years ago was the fact that, at the present time, technical colleges simply cannot meet all the needs of employers. Because of this, commercial organizations have to “lure” potential employees with high wages.
It is worth noting that the size of the salaries offered varies considerably depending on the region and the specific organization. So, often a young professional without work experience can count, at most, on a salary the size of a couple of minimum wages. At the same time, in some ads there are many times large numbers, up to 30-40 thousand rubles per month. The best deals are usually related to design specialties. Unfortunately, the similar order of figures is valid only for some regions, first of all, central ones. In other areas and territories, the salary of a young engineer may not exceed ten thousand rubles. In some ways, the fact that the salaries of engineers in most regions of the country are at the level of average indicators by regions, and in some it exceeds them, looks pleasant.
The main reason for increasing interest in young engineers is their qualifications and ability to adapt to current tasks. Profile forums are simply overwhelmed with complaints about good specialists of senior and retirement age, who, with all their knowledge and skills, can no longer master new design technologies. The youth has no such problems. But the lack of learning difficulties is compensated by other disadvantages. Recruiters say that finding a really good young specialist is not the easiest thing. Often, the announcement with large numbers in the “salary” column does not respond to the people who need the organization. In the best case, the personnel officer will be able to find a good specialist, having considered three or four candidates. There are several reasons for this. First, in the current issues of technical universities, there are often people who are not well versed in their specialty. The low prestige of engineering professions, observed several years ago, sometimes led to the fact that studying for designers, technologists, etc. There were yesterday's school troeters who did not want to join the army. It is not difficult to guess how "good" specialists they will become.
The second reason for the selection of personnel concerns not only professional skills, but also, if I may say so, related ones. The current engineer must have a certain understanding of the procurement of components, accounting and control, as well as, in some cases, be able to negotiate. In addition, a modern engineer, if he expects a high salary, is simply obliged to know foreign languages at a good level. The latter requirement is due to the fact that the most interesting salary offers are usually made by large international companies. It is quite clear that for a full-fledged work with foreign colleagues a young specialist should speak at least English. Thus, to get a job with a good salary, the current engineer is no longer enough just to graduate and just get a diploma.
The current trend with increasing demand for engineers still looks ambiguous. It is too early to draw any serious and far-reaching conclusions. First of all, doubts arise because of the specific appearance of the trend. The fact is that the current young graduates came in those years when the prestige of engineering professions left much to be desired. Now there is every reason to believe that in the near future the situation in the labor market will affect the views of applicants and they will choose engineering specialties. However, the youth who entered this year will begin full-fledged labor activity only by the end of the decade. So far it is impossible to say exactly how the engineering sector of the labor market will look like at this time. It is possible that an increase in the number of applicants for vacancies will affect the proposed salaries in the direction of reducing them, but the opposite development cannot be ruled out.
Anyway, the domestic labor market has finally begun to restructure itself in accordance with the obvious demands of the time. The main thing is that the current trend should continue and there should be no serious failures in the future. Due to the problems of recent years in the set of serious design organizations, including defense ones, the average age of employees has significantly increased. The main reason for this was an insufficient number of young people. A gradual increase in average wages for young designers and designers may well increase the influx of people into the industry, which will have a beneficial effect on the state of the industry. However, for this, those responsible for personnel selection should take their work seriously, otherwise increased attention to young people will not have the desired effect.
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