As a true contingent workforce management solution, FE is also valuable to engineers. The platform provides a community – a valuable online marketplace – where qualified workers can be matched up with companies who need their time and expertise. Finding excellent, hard-working engineering talent isn’t always easy, especially when the work involves high level IT skills.
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Consequently, Field Engineer (FE) also serves as an IT workforce management system since any of the specific technical skills needed for a particular assignment can be specified on the job description. Users can search based on keyword. Some of these IT specialty areas include: cloud computing skills; programming skills (such as Ansible, Chef and Cisco’s onePK API and VMware’s NSX); familiarity with IT networks, like LAN, WAN, WLAN and MAN; and soft skills, such as the ability to communicate technical information in layman’s terms.
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Engineers can also indicate whether they have been certified by organizations, such as the Society of Cable and Telecommunications Engineers, the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies, and the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers Computer Society.

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