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Originally Posted by waterbottle
I feel Engineering grads should venture into L&D and minimally be a stand-up trainer for soft-skills e.g. customer service. You can also be seen as a consultant to help employees customise and conduct in-house training courses, so that staff are well-trained and uphold certain KPIs like customer service.
Get an ACTA (Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment) cert where you can be a WDA-certified trainer, to teach WSQ courses. You may retire as a freelance trainer eventually.
Importantly you must go to a company with good spectrum of in-house courses where you can conduct, so that it can be a good learning ground for you.
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Possible but pay & career wise the prospects are not bright for such freelance / inhouse generic trainers.
The supply is overflooded because any guy who has some work experience just gets a few basic certs and starts offering general training. You can't make much by teaching generic subjects like customer service, team building, communication skills for low level workers, same for inhouse trainer as well.
If he really interested in L&D, the best route is to join a related engineering consultancy, gain a few years of broad based indstrial knowledge and imparting expertise then switch to in house or set up own consultancy spcializing in a certain niche of technical training. But again, this will require him to stay in engineering which he want to get out.