Engineering Jobs, Recruiting and Job Advice

Engineering Jobs, Recruiting and Job Advice

“An Engineer is person who uses scientific knowledge to identify and solve practical problems”1  Engineers as a group are probably the most creative people. They challenge, connect, visualise, harmonise, improvise, reorient, and synthesise. In simpler term, it means that they make new things and make old things better. People in the arts are creative too; but their creativity deals with thoughts or emotions. Engineering creativity is directed at things.

It is these reasons that taking an engineering job abroad can be so satisfying.  Whilst most first world countries have achieved stability, second and third world countries provide the opportunity to test your skills to the limit.  Apart from the satisfaction of knowing that you made a difference, the boost to your portfolio (for future employment) and great rates of pay, you will be satisfied in the knowledge that you proved your worth.  So where will you be next week, Surveying a road in your local community or constructing a bridge in Kandahar, Afghanistan?  "Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers do."2

1.  The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

2.  Quote from: Samuel Florman, The Civilized Engineer