The Right Engineer

Fewer and fewer American college students are pursuing degrees or taking jobs in engineering. Demand should therefore be increasing sharply well into the future.

Chemical: There is barely an industry that doesn't use chemical engineers, and C-People recruiters have contacts in some of the best.

Electrical: Growing environmental awareness combined with depletion of natural resources is driving the need for new ways to create clean electrical energy.

Electronics and computer hardware: As high tech rebounds from the dot.bomb and 9/11 crises and as more and more industrial firms are requiring engineers to automate their processes, demand for engineers is renewing. Meanwhile, nanotechnology is introducing entirely new principles to the design process and opening up this brand new field.

Environmental: Demand in this area will be exploding as recognition of the need for better stewardship of the Earth's resources moves from government regulators and the general public to private industrial initiatives.

Petroleum: Higher oil prices are spurring development of revolutionary techniques for finding new deposits and extracting the harder-to-reach pockets in old fields. Engineers are in demand to come up with greater efficiencies. Nobody knows the petroleum business better than Dallas-based C-People.

C-People also places engineers into great positions in health and safety, mining, industrial, marine, mechanical, materials, and nuclear.