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ENGINEER HIRING AND TRAINING

The realization is that employee training is an absolutely essential component for efficient and productive returns from employment strategics. Task specific confidence in the field are skills that imbue performance and safety to projects.

RRPI embarked on this feasibility study to define the influence and merits of training low income engineers/ Architects as Certified Energy Engineers. The idea being to identify individuals from this Target Population (TP) that can be channeled into executive performance rolls. Although there is a focus on administrative abilities the field essentials were also a prime consideration.

The study was initiated by determining a density function for the number of certifiable individuals in the TP with an intention to utilize it for zoning the population subjects by counties in Minnesota. An early but unsurprising observation was that a dearth of certified energy professionals and executives within the population exists; right away recognized as a definite hurdle to hiring
from the present population.

As expected for technological based engineering firms, technology was foremost in determining a choice of employer. Training though is is a specific key enticement in addition to proposed salary. Technological challenge, Learning/Career Development and Valuing the Individual were the three most desired variables determined by RRPI to drive keen human technological resource acquisition for engineering firms.

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