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engineers don't look in consulting |
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Re: Engineers |
| Date Posted: |
12/04/2002 |
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hello,
i'm a graduating mechanical engineer from canada's top school queen's university. have top grades, speak 5 languages (went to boarding schools all over europe), extensive working experience and all those other skills that will supposedly get you a very good job.
I applied to every consulting firm known to mankind and got only one letter from Marakon saying they will consider me when they start recruiting next march!!!
i went back to my roots and within 3 weeks got a job at a top engineering firm for a $58,000 salary and normal hours!!!!
to all engineers out there thinking their analytical skills will be appreciated in the business world i suggest you at least also apply to eng. firms. the salaries are a lot higher for about half the hours.
Business is not worth it!!!!
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On behalf of the consulting ,can I express my disappointment at how you were treated...
We need engineers (e.g. we have them as clients ??)but all we seem to recruit are MBA clones / fluent Java speakers. We preach the benefits of diversity but haven't got a clue about its practical application (much of what we preach we don't apply, come to think of it).
If our sterile approach to recruiting was correct, the most reliable indicator of success, for any corporation, would be the ratio of Major League MBAs to total employees. As you might guess, there's no correlation - so our approach is Jack...
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