I am a private construction industry which has potential to provide immense job opportunities and fulfil dreams of most of civil engineers in terms of financial and personal growth. Other than joining me, there are other avenues for fresh civil engineers such as making career in to government service, teaching, training, business, consultation, manufacturing and material supply. Those who want to join me shall be skilled, honest, sincere and ready to solve challenges of project time and cost overruns in all means possible. I have a pool of civil engineers but many are just qualified and experienced. I find them lacking in skills –mainly non-technical skills such as soft skills, functional skills, critical thinking, behavioural skills, life skills.
Unfortunately ignorance of various career options, their pros and cones, risks and benefits, lack of confidence, a common civil engineer follows a herd mentality & join me. It happens mainly because they don’t have their own vision and a career path to live their dreams. This non visionary troop, which is found living dreams of somebody else, is generally not happy with their own achievements, and there starts a journey of dissatisfaction, job hopping, and failure.
I am looking for professionals ready to solve my issues and challenges and not just worried about monthly salary, increments and promotions, those experts who have their vision & passion to live them. I remember few lines of poem by Robert Frost..
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.”
