First Day of Work

I’m bummed - I wrote about my Adirondack Memorial day weekend and it doesn’t look like it saved.  Ugh.  I was just going to post a quick note about today.  We had three new staff start, new grads from college.  It’s a first for our department.  I’m trying something new as we continue to face the gap in supply and demand of qualified staff.  It’s a very strange vibe in the air today since we suddenly have a lot more bodies and our area is near capacity now.  It’ll be interesting to see how this experiment goes.  The cool thing is the stats:

1.  We have a 100% PE licenses of staff who are eligible (they have the qualifying years). Highest in the company.

2. Last month we had 50% of the staff had PEs.  Highest in the company.

3. Today we tipped.  We have more females than males in the department.  And this was purely by accident.  I had delegated the interviewing and final selection.  We made offers to a few people and the ones that accepted ended up being all female.  Definitely unique in the company.

 
It's great to see since the company and industry is still overly male dominated.  Look forward to this next era as I work on growing the company through my department in new directions.  I've been working on what my agenda is and realize I keep coming back to a common theme: "Market Transformation Through Education".  Specifically working to grow the professional's "buidling design intelligence" when it comes to energy.  The first step is teachig it to new grads and developing resources and tools to teach it to our colleagues and eventually the clients.