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... is something that is touted in the press every so often. Sometimes it refers to school leavers, graduates or experienced persons. Especially with regards to technical / engineering areas. What I'de like to ask is how many peoples employers offer technical training and have you taken any of it up? If you're an employer do you offer technical training? Are other countries any better?
I appreciate training is expensive to give hence outside of a few big employers it seems very limited. Utility companies seem to offer good training as do oil and gas companies but outside these areas? I work in technical industry and there is zero training offered by the company, nor has there been in any of my previous jobs. I feel mentoring seems to be a thing of the past. I've never received any when I left university at my jobs and despite being autodidactic I feel I have defiantly missed some valuable knowledge transfer. Have I been unlucky with my employer or is this representative. It feels as if many companies are missing out on getting the most from their employees.
Training has always been necessary, college and university course have only ever given the theory side of training but employer now seems to talk as if they expect people straight from university or college to be bang up to speed and to be up to speed as an experience person with minimal on the job mentoring or training.
There are calls to rebalance the economy to include engineering and that there are a shortage of engineers but a shortage with a demand will usually result in a increase in price. I don't see an increase in engineering jobs pay so is all this talk of a shortage of people with technical and engineering jobs a lie? Trying to get colleges and universities to pump more engineering / technical person to depress market rates further?
**** knows
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