Job Issue- How would you handle this?

bigtrees
Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:18:09 +0000

Deb922,

Whether the reason for the position ending was related to performance or not is beside the point. Many people suceed at engineering who would fail at production and many production guys / gals would fail at engineering. It’s two very different styles of work.

By the same token, I don’t think her strongest reference would be the people who supervised her at a production job. They can talk about how she did at production but not to her ability as an engineer. Professors and mentors at college can talk a lot more to her abilities as an engineer, which is much more important for employers.

The main thing for her is she worked in a manufacturing facility through a temp agency, and that’s that. Now back to Calculus, Statics, Thermodynamics, etc, etc, etc.