QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 05:10 PM)
This is true...we have recently been able to hire a ton of electrical engineers as Power Traders and in Portfolio Analytics due to the flux of college graduates in a bad job market. However, these positions we have are a combination of understanding how electrical generating units work and understanding how to trade and move around energy in complex energy markets. It is really a hybrid of skills that no one degree can prepare one for. Thus, we need people that are capable of learning and adapting quickly under pressure, which are more skills that seem to occur naturally in people rather than anything that can be taught.
Eh, in my experience that's the kind of skill that actually is the thing you want to be teaching people, and it's something that can be taught if you have the right people...but then again, I haven't done any sort of study to establish that, so I'm the one throwing out an off-subject-anecdote now.