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Emerson Confidential

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Agenda

Emerson and Organizational Overview

Career Planning

What We Do Daily


Emerson Overview



Emerson At-a-Glance

$24.4 Billion in sales

Diversified global manufacturer and

technology provider

Approximately 133,000 employees worldwide

Headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri USA

NYSE: EMR

Manufacturing and/or sales presence in more than 150 countries

235 manufacturing locations worldwide

No. 123 on 2013 FORTUNE 500 list of America s largest corporations

Founded in 1890


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Ready To Serve: Nearly 300 Global Locations

Asia Pacific:47 Locations

Middle East &

Africa:15 Locations

Latin America33 Locations

North America:139 Locations

Europe:47 Locations

Russia, CISB:8 Locations


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Projects Overview

Applications Engineering

We configure software programs developed by our

Similar to how you use MATLAB (developed by MathWorks) to complete school projects.

Here in Austin our customers are in the life sciences industry, but there are other groups at Emerson who work to automate other industries.

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Process Control

Everyday examples:

Thermostat: Automatically adjusts heating and cooling to stay within range of set temperature.

Cruise Control: Automatically adjusts car throttle to maintain desired vehicle speed.

Industrial examples:

Tank level

Fluid flow

Pressure

Temperature


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Why Automation?

Apply process control to automate manufacturing.

Control and optimize production

Life Sciences Industry

Highly automated

FDA regulated

Need for consistency and precision

Worldwide need for better, faster, cheaper treatments


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Career Development and Career Planning


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Learn About Yourself

What are your strengths?

What do you enjoy?

People problems

Technical challenges

Business challenges

What kind of a lifestyle do you want to have?

Travel

Hours

Flexibility


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Be Professional

Pay attention to the way you are perceived. Notice successful people, in general.

Strive to be someone that people like to work with.

Everyone has to pay their dues.

ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't

Mark Twain


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Constantly Improve Yourself

Develop your technical skills

Job-related technology

Evolving technology and business trends

Understand the business

Make yourself useful

Know what impacts the bottom line


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Keep an Open Mind

Develop your soft skills

Handling difficult people situations

Dealing with ambiguity

Priority setting

Presentation skills

Decision making

Solicit feedback


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Seek Mentoring

Types

Formal

Informal

Networking

Identify at least one key mentor

In your organization

You respect

Does work you are interested in

Solicit Feedback from Mentors and Supervisors

Strengths

Areas for improvement


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Understand the Career Paths

Examples

Technical ladder

Project management

People management

Sales

Marketing

Consider lateral moves


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Continuing Education

Focus on the opportunities that the additional skills will enable, not the pedigree

Consider all impacts on your career

Resigning or taking sabbatical

For part-time graduate school

Quality of work at the office

What if you put the same effort into your day job?

Investigate the options

Also look at professional learning that is not part of a degree


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Questions to Ask Yourself

What kind of work would I enjoy?

Research, Design, Manufacturing?

Office, Plant, Lab?

Travel? How much?

What kind of company do I want to work for?

Large

Stable/Predictable

Structured

Values

Career paths

Training

Mentoring

Benefits


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Questions to Ask Yourself

Entrepreneurial

High Risk/High Reward

Fluid/Dynamic

Find your own way

Limited rules or policies

What type of culture do you want?

Casual or Formal?

Structured or Unstructured?

Collaborative or Competitive?

Open or Closed?

Location

City or Rural?

South, East, North, or West?


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What We Do


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Execute Projects

Projects last anywhere from about 6 months 2 years.

Project teams are often comprised of a diverse group of individuals from Emerson offices around the world.

Various skill sets and experience levels.

Team members may work on all phases of the project.

All levels of the project have opportunities to interface/work with the customer.

Not far removed from the end user.

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Project Methodology

What we do daily.

FEED Design PhaseImplementation

& TestingOn-site Testing


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Relevant Skills/Experiences

Courses/Projects/Research/Internship in a team setting

Demonstrated leadership skills

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Planning and organization skills

Time management skills

Experience with programming languages


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Relevant Qualities

Self-motivated

Strong communication skills

Keen attention to detail

Big-picture oriented

Innovative approach to problems

Interest in pharmaceutical and biotech companies

Ability to work in collaborative, problem solving teams

Willingness to travel to customer sites

Creative


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Who we are looking for

In Austin we typically hire Biomedical and ChemicalEngineers for the projects group.

In other offices, we hire Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Science/Computer Engineering.


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Questions?

Thanks for listening!

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