Interview to Ricardo Carramiñana, general director of EADIC
Recently it knew that the bidding of public work by part of all the Administrations has fallen 84% in Spain from the year 2006. This adds to a radical change in the levels of edificación (the past year initiated the construction of little more than 45.000 houses in front of the almost 800.000 of the 2006). How they can the engineers face up to this so spectacular descent in his activity?
The main strategy that can adopt the engineers to face up to the current situation is reinventarse like professionals. We find us in a moment decisive for the development of the technical profiles in Spain in which specialise us, create an own mark with national and international visibility and position us like experts in matters very concrete is crucial so that the professional profiles are interesting for concrete projects in the locations more shoot.
It is the big moment of the learning, of the recycling of knowledges?
The field of the learning also finds in a turning point, no so much because in Spain are insufficiently formed, but because there is a change of economic model to the that the learning has to give answer. The learning also has to adapt to the new exigencias of the labour market that change every time with more rapidity and sue a more frequent update and intense of the knowledges, as well as the exchange of experiences and skills with professionals of other companies or of other geographic fields even during the own formative process.
In which measure is changing the professional profile of the engineers? What differentiate formative would stand out between the current engineers and those that sacar our infrastructures does 30, 20 or 10 years?
The current professional profile of the Spanish engineer is a very competent profile regarding the bagaje formative that brings of his university period, since the technical careers in our country have a big quality. Besides they are used to to have some postgrado of specialisation or gestión. 30 years ago it was little usual that a professional llevar a process of continuous learning by personal initiative after having finalised the career, that is to say, the professional exercise was sufficient learning by himself same and did not contemplate this need. To the day of today the competition is greater so much in the labour market as between the companies and to be to the day is necessary a more intense effort.
Which are the characteristic/skills that more demand at present the labour market in matter of engineering for the construction?
What more sues at present is the correct employment of specific software, the knowledge of languages and the capacity or flexibility to work in some surroundings multicultural. Every time it values more the capacity to work by projects and by achievement of aims in place of by schedules. Like consequence, autogestionar the own professional career, invest in the personal development (be conscious to explode the fortresses and work the weaknesses) and adapt us to the needs of the project in which you are immersed are keys of the success to the hour to improve the competitiveness.
It looks for more the specialisation in a determinate field of work or the polivalencia?
Right now see easier that a skilled professional in the sector of the construction and the engineering find employment that all those with a profile more generalista. If you have touched a lot of areas will be able to access to different labour offers, but taking into account the current situation of the labour market in which the companies can choose, goes to select prioritariamente to the professional specialised in a matter. To the day of today the market rewards to the professional that specialises since it turns into reference to the hour to llevar a project.
Which level of importance is purchasing in the learning of the engineers all the related with the new technicians of information and more specifically the social networks?
There is a big difference between how a professional formed 15 years ago and how is forming at present because of Internet and to the social networks. To the day of today the form to access to the information and to exchange professional experiences is fast, free, selective and very skilled. Before we found us with the difficulty to locate the little information that there was and today confront us to the challenge to select the correct inside a big quantity of data. The excess of information is present in all the professional fields, the quantity of available resources is so big that the main problem is to concretise them in that that need to be able to take decisions.
It considers that in the world of the engineering there is an optimum update of knowledges with regard to the last programs of design that have launched to the market? They are desaprovechando opportunities?
There is not an optimum update, mainly because so much the professionals of the sector like the companies still are a bit proactivos in front of the demands of the market. Sometimes we do not update this type of knowledges until it boasts unavoidable, in whose case do not do it to go by in front but not to remain us backwards and then the true opportunity that desaprovecha is the habit to be systematically to the last. In the subject of the technology can take good note of countries that in very few years have placed to the avant-garde thanks to the innovation and to the update accelerated as it is the case of China and South Korea.
Inside the very wide field of the engineering for the Construction, there is some niche of market that keep still to float of the crisis that azota the sector? Or any with a high potential of development in the next years?
The lines or the divisions of the companies of engineers and infrastructures more internacionalizadas are managing better in these moments of crisis. Regarding niches of market all the related with the sustainability, the energetic efficiency and the engineers of processes that improve the aprovechamiento of the available resources have a big potential of development so much national as internationally. In the case of Spain the branch of conservation and maintenance of infrastructures and edificaciones also would have to keep in a good level during the next years. Since we do not build, we go to invest efforts in keeping the infrastructures with which explain.
It happens the future of the engineers, to short-half term, for looking for new labour opportunities out of our borders?
In some surroundings so globalizado it is necessary to be available to develop our profession there where was suing our professional profile. To achieve it, the regional and national borders have to disappear totally of our mental map. Although historically to the Spanish professional has supposed him a big effort go out of his geographic surroundings more next, and neither to date had been really necessary, the reality is that the Spanish engineer is very valued and requested abroad. In Latin American countries and of Middle East where is betting by the development of new infrastructures, our experience and capacity is very sued.
Which formative appearances would have to have always present an engineer to the hour to present to an offer of work abroad? It could give us some recommendation to optimise this type of curriculum?
According to the country of destination, speak English can arrive to be indispensable although in some countries of Latin America could not being an obstacle to the hour to opt to a place of work. Together with the languages, have international certifications, like the case of the PMP (Proyect Managment Professional) for steering of projects is another important factor to optimise a curriculum with international vocation. A plus in this sense is to have cursado some technical specialisation very concrete and also be able to use effectively the software employed internationally or with international rule.
Finally, which advantages would stand out of the formative offer that offers EADIC? Which courses are at present available for the engineers?
Ours formative offer structures from technical contents very adapted to the exert immediate professional. They give them professional in active that develop his career in big companies and besides his price is very competitive and excepcionalmente adapted to the current acquisitive power. We have developed a model of education in which the contents are permanently updated thanks to continuous contribution of the professors, and the methodology of interaction between students and professors, thanks to the new technologies, allow us achieve an effective and flexible learning for the student that works or have to be in disposal to travel or change of location of immediate form.
EADIC Offers courses in different thematic areas like infrastructures, engineering of the water, environingingment, languages, software, gestión, etc., and between the most sued at present find among others, courses on energetic efficiency, project management, financialss or courses of English and Portuguese technician.
