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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Recruiting Corrosion Engineers

Our job market is as hot as it has ever been, I regularly get several calls a week from recruiters looking for corrosion engineers. Our company is taking an active hand in recruiting prospective corrosion personnel from colleges and universities, and they asked me to help them come up with a description of what a corrosion engineer does.

Corrosion Control - we keep exciting things from happening

Corrosion Control - real-life application of the Nine Tenets of Constancy

Corrosion Control - crushing the laws of Thermodynamics, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Sounds pretty exciting, doesn't it? When someone asks me what I do, I usually tell them it's a combination of MacGyver and that guy Q from the James Bond movies.

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2 Comments:

  • Hello Drew,

    So nice to see someone writing about corrosion on blogs! I am looking for some useful information about shaping my career in anti-corrosive coatings line. Could you please help in this regards?
    thanks!
    Hiren (India)

    By Blogger subtlemind, At 10:12 AM  

  • Hi Hiren,

    I think the best way to get ahead in corrosion is to make yourself as knowledgeable as possible. Learn as much as you can about coatings, but not just coatings, learn about cathodic protection (which has a big interaction with coatings,) corrosion mechanisms, both atmospheric and buried/submerged coatings. Gain credentials where ever you can, because these will help you in the future. I think NACE's Coating Inspector Program is a great way to start.

    By Blogger Drew, At 11:27 AM  

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