There are many ways for an employer to find workers. Placing
an ad in the Sunday paper used to be de rigueur; now companies are placing ads
on MySpace, and Hot Jobs, and Craigslist, and … well, just about everywhere on
the Internet.
ABB Inc. took a different
approach; they met
with students who have
graduated from universities across the country. The students were hand-picked
for ABB’s “Engineering Leaders for the Future” program, and ABB division
business professionals met with them at ABB’s Raleigh facility.
"We
started the program this summer to give students with an expressed interest in
engineering a very concrete track from study/graduation to employment,"
said Noelle Heinrich, program administrator. Over an 18-month period, graduates
with mechanical, electrical or industrial engineering degrees go through three
rotations across ABB’s five divisions, and visit businesses located in the
U.S., Canada and/or Mexico.
At the end of the program rotation, the graduates are
sought by, and placed into, the divisions and countries that graduates identify
as a high point of interest – and where ABB managers have identified the
opportunities they want to place graduates into.
