Last week’s poll: key attributes for engineers

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What are the most important attributes for an engineer to be successful in the UK job market

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Last week, jobs board CV-Library published a survey exploring the key attributes they believe to be most useful to engineers in the UK job market today. We asked our readers which of these they felt were the most important.

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There was absolutely no doubt about which attribute respondents felt was most essential, with almost two-thirds (61 per cent) voting for 'ability to adapt'. Engineering, of course, requires creative thinking and problem-solving underpinned by a solid technical foundation, so it's no surprise that adaptability was by far the most popular option.

Coming in a distant second was 'willingness to upskill', with 17 per cent of the vote. Skills remain an ever-present issue in UK engineering with the dreaded 'skills gap' continuing to loom large. Plenty of The Engineer's readers had advice on upskilling, and it was pointed out that looking beyond traditional skillsets can often be worthwhile.

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