civil engineers want more training

27/06/2012 - 16:36 - Category: Training
To top it's just for civil engineers with training: Nearly 30 percent of respondents want the industry to more training opportunities
- Survey "VDI-educating II": Nearly a third of managers and personnel officers concedes that technical specialists and managers receive little training

- Trade skills are and will remain the most important

- Demographic change requires investment now

Technical specialists and managers receive insufficient training. This opinion is almost one third (29.3 percent) of CEOs and HR managers from companies in the construction technique, which the VDI Science Forum as part of the survey, "VDI-educating II" interviewed. 14.7 percent even claim that it is in their own companies are not enough training opportunities.

Although almost all the surveyed managers and recruiters in the Construction believes that the qualification of the employees for their companies an important competitive advantage (96 percent) and education contributes significantly to the success of the company (94.6 percent). However, to give 85.3 percent of respondents to provide their employees with adequate training.



"This result is not understandable," says Timo Taubitz, managing director of VDI Knowledge Forum. "Amazingly, detect almost all managers and HR professionals on the importance of education -. However, not all act accordingly Only those who consistently follow the words and deeds can be, remains at the cutting edge, being competitive."

Knowledge Forum 2010, the VDI already technical specialists and managers in various industries had asked about their training situation. In civil engineering for more than a third (39 percent) had held the training opportunities for non-sufficient. Asked about the possible reasons for this statement, enter now for almost a third (29.3 percent) of managers and HR professionals, that this view is understandable, because in fact less training is offered as necessary. More than half (52 percent) oppose the opinion that the continuing education of its employees shall perceived lower than it actually is. 46.7 percent say that other companies seem to invest less in training than they do

Expertise is and remains the most important

Agree, the CEO and HR managers about what kind of training is most important: 84 percent of respondents see as the most important skills expertise to (number one or two of the required training). This is followed by far social skills (33.3 percent), and Entrepreneurial skills (30.6 percent) and Personal skills (28 percent). "The assessment shows that expertise is the main thing, is to keep up with the latest technical developments," commented Taubitz the result.

Looking to the future, respondents rate the training as a key factor in retaining qualified staff: 94.7 percent say that this is the drug of choice.

81.3 percent offer flexible work schedules, 76 percent value the support for balancing work and family. 72 percent also use bonuses to retain employees in itself, provide 60 percent subsidy for employee care.

Deal with the continuing demographic change

To provide in advance for the training of tomorrow's plays, also from the point of demographic change a crucial role. Because this will affect the opinion of the directors and personnel managers in the next ten years clearly negative: 72 percent see future problems with the recruitment of young engineers - equivalent to the loss of know-how of engineers who go into retirement (72 percent). More than half of respondents (53.3 percent) see problems is to keep senior engineers to be able to. Only 20 percent consider it difficult to qualify the already recruited engineers.

"When companies see continuing education as a primary means to keep good employees and at the same time feared to have problems in recruiting and the loss of know-how, it is obvious that they should already qualify for tomorrow," says Taubitz.

VDI is educating the continuing education initiative of the VDI Knowledge Forum. The survey "VDI-educating II" was conducted by 500 general managers and personnel managers in seven engineering industries (automotive, mechanical engineering, plastics industry, process industry, energy, agricultural machinery and construction equipment). 2010 was the first survey, "VDI-educating" among technical specialists and managers conducted the same industries.