Who is an engineer and how to find a job
Can anyone become that way if they want to? Are any innate abilities required? Have you heard when they say about someone: "a specialist from God", "born for this profession", "this is his vocation"? Probably, there must be some predisposition to certain activities. You can understand who can become an engineer by studying the peculiarities of our psyche …
When a graduate student of a technical university faces a choice of what to do next, where and by whom to work, he wants to find a place where he will be in demand and will have growth prospects. And the main question that he will have to decide is whether to associate his future with engineering activities. You will find answers to these questions in this article.
What is an engineer? What engineers are in demand in the modern world
In recent years, the demand for engineering workers has been growing. The development of technology requires skilled professionals. And in today's labor market, there is a severe shortage of competent engineers in many areas. This includes various industries, and electronics, and the food industry, and construction, and computer technology, and much more.
Who is an engineer and what does he do? He accompanies almost all stages of the creation of any product. Designs, researches, invents, designs. Calculates, plans, conducts preparatory work. Tests, debugs, commissions. Tracks, optimizes, modifies. Analyzes, corrects problems, monitors and disposes of.
At each stage, a specialist is required who will bring the matter to a logical point. So that the worker can continue to take and do according to a well-functioning technology, provided with everything necessary. And the consumer - to get the desired product of proper quality.
We live in a world of high speeds and competition. An optimal - the most efficient and cost-effective - process is required in any branch of modern industry. Accordingly, we need someone who will provide this - a qualified, talented engineer.
Can anyone become that way if they want to? Are any innate abilities required? Have you heard when they say about someone: "a specialist from God", "born for this profession", "this is his vocation"? Probably, there must be some predisposition to certain activities. You can understand who can become an engineer by studying the peculiarities of our psyche. Let us refer to the materials of the training "System-vector psychology" by Yuri Burlan.
Who is an engineer: who is this profession suitable for?
What qualities are important to an engineer? What is engineering in a general sense? This is the development and further change, improvement, optimization of something (from the Latin ingenium - talent, ability, ingenuity). Optimization of the technological process, methodology, scheme, composition - everything that a person needs to save his efforts, time or resources, for their more rational use and obtaining an effective result.
Therefore, the engineer needs the presence of a skin vector in his psyche. It is for the skin vector that the desire to modify the surrounding reality is characteristic, to rationally spend the available funds with a perspective for the future.
The presence of the properties of the anal vector allows you to memorize and operate with large amounts of information, analyze and systematize various data. The accumulation and transfer of knowledge and experience, attention to detail and the ability to notice the slightest inaccuracy or error are also characteristic of the owners of the anal vector. These qualities can be especially useful for an engineer who is engaged in painstaking work that requires accuracy and perseverance, employee training, inspections, reporting, and the like.
Engineers who also have a sound vector are especially in demand in the modern world. The ability to deeply focus on solving necessary problems, generate new ideas and find unusual ways to achieve goals - this is where a developed sound engineer is strong.
Possessing a powerful abstract intellect and a desire to know the world, he is constantly in search of meanings, cause-and-effect relationships, answers, something that rises above the usual routine. This psychologically gives him pleasure and pushes him to engage in science, engineering, new technologies, as well as writing, music, psychology - all these are attempts to cognize the world order, often unconscious.
The larger the volume of the psyche (and in the sound vector it is the largest), the greater the potential and, accordingly, the desires and aspirations of a person. And the result is more tangible: upon implementation - satisfaction from life, from your place in it, from achievements; if not realized - despondency, apathy, and other negative states up to depression.
A carrier of only a skin vector, if it is sufficiently developed in its properties, can become a good engineer keeping up with the times. The owner of the skin-sound ligament is a potential brilliant engineer, inventor, pioneer. The one who is able to overtake time. And to transfer everyone else to a new stage of development.
Therefore, the best thing that can be done for a child with skin and sound vectors is to send him to a mathematical school, where his potential will be maximized among those like him. The more development, the more realization and ultimately the pleasure of life. But back to the questions about adults.
Is it worth working as an engineer
Calling work is an important part of a happy life. Consider the points that most often raise doubts about whether to go to an engineering position.
1. An engineer earns little.
The salary of a specialist depends, firstly, on his competence and professionalism. The employer is interested in retaining a valuable employee, so he is ready to pay him decently.
Secondly, the level of salaries differs depending on the situation at the enterprise. In a prestigious, developing place, they pay more, but where they stay afloat, interrupting from order to order, they are hardly able to seriously interest the standing staff financially. Although as the beginning of a career for yesterday's student, this option can be useful as a springboard for gaining experience.
Thirdly, our mentality is characterized by the conduct of business based on personal relationships and sympathies. All other things being equal, a pleasant, disposable person is more likely to receive a salary increase, or a bonus, or even offer a raise.
2. It is not prestigious to be an engineer.
This statement is due in large part to the same salary. But there is also such a conviction in the minds of some people that "working as an engineer in a factory" is not something a successful person should strive for.
Perhaps there are echoes of the post-Soviet era, when research and production enterprises collapsed one after another across the country. Yesterday's luminaries, having behind them a lot of research works, patents, inventions, enviable length of service, scientific degrees, were forced to go in every direction just to feed themselves.
Now is not the time. Technologies are developing by leaps and bounds, and it is qualified engineers who are in great demand and respected.
3. An engineer is a non-feminine profession.
Long gone are the days when men were predominantly employed in engineering. Allegedly, in the technical industries, the ladies are not able to understand at the same level. The predisposition to engineering professions does not depend on gender, but on the type of thinking, the level of intelligence, and personal interests. There are no less women with a sound vector than men. And they are able to achieve the same results.
It is another matter when the employer himself does not want to hire a girl: he will jump out of marriage, will go on maternity leave, then there will be permanent sick leave with children … There are still such cases. However, if the company is interested in a good employee, and you show yourself as such, then problems will not arise, regardless of gender or age.
4. An engineer is not accepted without experience.
Lack of experience among young professionals is often an obstacle to employment in any position. It is clear that the employer wants to hire employees who do not have to be trained from scratch. In some cases, this is a matter of principle. But in general, the manager is ready to accept an inexperienced specialist on the staff, if he likes him, if the potential and desire to work are noticeable.
And then, even an experienced employee, when applying for a new position, learns something, enters into the course of the matter, delves into various features of the work process, he also needs the assistance of colleagues. A person who has received an engineering education is valuable precisely because he knows how to work with the necessary information and find ways to solve problems.
Whether it is worth trying yourself as an engineer, only you can decide for yourself, based on your preferences and abilities.
How can a graduate get a job
And yet, if there is no experience, how to behave with a potential employer so that you are hired? How do university graduates find jobs?
Of course, it is good when during my studies there were contacts with enterprises: industrial practice, consultation when writing term papers and theses. Often, enterprises themselves are interested in the flow of capable young people and actively interact with educational institutions, willingly hiring senior students on a part-time basis.
Higher education institutions usually have data on relevant enterprises and vacancies. And on the Internet it will not be difficult to find the necessary information for most organizations.
Here are some tips on what is important for interviews and probation:
- The skill of communicating with people. To do this, you don't have to be talkative and the soul of the company. By the way, this is usually alien to sound specialists. It is about the ability to focus on the interlocutor, to understand his values and aspirations, which makes sense for him to speak the same language with him. We always feel unconscious sympathy for those who understand us, think and speak like we do.
- Good internal condition. A gloomy, embittered, depressive specialist, even a very capable one, is less likely to be preferred to a less talented but pleasant person. We work in a team, among other people who are drawn to those who experience positive inner feelings, and do not transmit dislike and dissatisfaction to them.
- General level of development. This applies not only to literacy in the chosen profession. The point is the degree of development of innate qualities. It is she who determines how much you can open up in your activities, what to achieve. As an example - discipline in the skin vector, the ability to follow through in the anal vector, or the ability to concentrate in the sound vector. Therefore, try to show your properties in the best possible way, knowing the strengths and weaknesses.
- Ability to work with information in a changing reality. The world is rapidly transforming, and technologies are developing. Some professions go into oblivion, while others, until now unknown, appear. In ten years, the labor market may be in demand for specialists in areas that we cannot even imagine. Education is not only concrete knowledge that students put into their heads. To a greater extent, this is the development of new neural connections, the development of the skill to receive and apply knowledge. Learn to learn to keep up with life.
Let's summarize. Knowing yourself, your characteristics helps to determine what you can be strong in, and sooner achieve results. The same knowledge guarantees the diagnosis of possible problems and, accordingly, the elimination of them. This means that it helps to demonstrate your best sides, to be in a good psychological and emotional state - people around interact with such people more willingly. Understanding the characteristics of those around you is also important for successful business.
The ability to apply your innate abilities, supplemented by the received education, the desire to improve the subject of your activity, reaching the essence - this is what makes you a valuable specialist.
The ability to work by vocation, to feel useful and in demand, to realize our potential and to learn about the world around us makes us much happier. Find out more at the free online lectures of the training "System-vector psychology" by Yuri Burlan. Try to change reality. After all, who is an engineer if he does not embody changes for the better?
