I recently developed an interview process and reviewed resumes for a small structural engineering company and was surprised to see many of the graduates working at Price Chopper and as waiters. This is a problem for our economy on several levels.
First, engineers need a 4 year apprecentaceship before qualifying to take the P.E. (professional engineering) state exam. If our college graduates are working minimum wage, out of the field jobs, they are wasting valuable time! Second, these college graduates are working minimum wage jobs that they could have done without a degree. The stress of manual laber combined with looming college debt has a way of zapping the creativity right out of a person.
That’s where i3 Resources comes in. Our vision is to support small business growth by secring government and private grants that fund intenships in technical and innovation driven small businesses. Many small businesses could grow if they had some solid help in the way of high quality employees and some help managing them effectively.