YOUNG PROFESSIONAL FORUM

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Attachment 1

• YOUNG PROFESSIONAL FORUM
• BEING A YOUNG CONSULTING ENGINEER
• KEY NOTE PRESENTATION BY ENGINEER L MAGARA
• Interconsult Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd
• OCTOBER 2002

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• 1. THE YOUNG CONSULTING ENGINEER
• Is a professional engineer
• Is a project engineer or higher level
• Interacts with client managers and general public
• Is sufficiently empowered to make critical
  technical decisions
• Is in his/her 30s or early 40s

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• 2. CHOICE OF EMPLOYER
• Government or quasi-government
• The built-environment
• Industry
• Academia

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• 2.1 MOTIVATION FOR CHOICE OF CARRIER PATH
• Ethical considerations
• Training regimes
• Reputation
• Remuneration and other benefits
• Opportunities for advancement
• Nature of work
• Job security

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• 2.2 SIGNIFICANT MOTIVATION FACTORS IN
  CHOICE OF CARRIER PATHS
• A. Government and Quasi-government
  Institutions
• Institutionalised official sponsorship for
  tertiary education
• Entrenched training/development programmes
• More varied work in a given discipline
• Superior rewards at lower and middle levels
• Security of employment and good pension

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• 2.2 SIGNIFICANT MOTIVATION FACTORS IN
  CHOICE OF CARRIER PATHS (Contd)
• B. Consulting Engineering Firms
• Opportunities for involvement in several
  disciplines
• Competitive environment
• Focus on technical functions
• Opportunities for ownership
• Opportunities for good financial rewards at
  senior levels of employment

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• 2.2 SIGNIFICANT MOTIVATION FACTORS IN
  CHOICE OF CARRIER PATHS (Contd)
• C. Contractors
• Competitive environment
• Very good financial rewards at lower and middle
  levels
• Opportunities for developing own contracting
  business
• Varied interesting field work

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• 2.2 SIGNIFICANT MOTIVATION FACTORS IN
  CHOICE OF CARRIER PATHS (Contd)
• D. Academia
• Sponsorship for higher education
• Involvement in research
• Opportunities for specialist consultancies

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• 2.3 ASPIRATIONS
• Professional development
• High standards of professional achievement
• Continuous and varied work for professional
  satisfaction
• Keeping abreast with advances in technologies
• Exposure to state of the art analysis tools
• Competitive financial rewards

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• 3. THE MARKET PLACE
• 3.1 HARD ENGINEERING
• Traditional highly scientific and practical
  engineering
• Investigate, analyse, design, construct,
  commission, OM
• 3.2 SOFT ENGINEERING
• Advisory services
• Total project management
• Private finance initiatives
• Environment and resource management

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• 3. THE MARKET PLACE (contd)
• 3.3 HARD AND SOFT TOGETHER
• Has the engineer remained too hard in concrete
  when the world is going soft?
• How many of our engineers (young old) strike
  the right balance of hard and soft in their
  stride?
• Is the profession losing out to invaders?
• 3.4 FIDIC AND ITS MAs
• Demographic profile of both young and old must
  shift towards soft
• Discipline profile must also shift in core
  make-up from hard to soft
• The youth of a nation are the masters of
  posterity (Benjamin Disraeli)

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