Please explain
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Depends on area of Ford, and caliber of the FCG.
Ford IT has low retention rate for the best of breed.
Ford IT has high retention rate for the worst of breed.
At the 5 year mark all of the IT best of breed are out of Ford.
There are many better paying, more challenging and rewarding jobs outside of Ford.
I think the litmus test/metric should be how many stay after 5 years after they start their Ford career?
I started as an FCG over 20 years ago; all the people I started with my my FCG class stayed the first 3 years or so. However, I did notice at least 30% were gone after 5 years, and it went up to over 50% at the 10 year mark.
This was in the last 90's early 2000's - the reasons boil own to the following:
- - Bored
- Life happens: getting married /having kids was a fatcor in at least 4 that I know of (1 guy who left cause he needed/wanted a bigger paycheck; three were women whom did not wnat to work full time while having kids and at the time, someone with such low senority could not get a TWA part time rotation)
- downturns/cutbacks
- Not fast enough advancement. Especially for the engineer types who get their MBA's wihtin 3 to 4 years after starting FCG program, they almost always leave within 10 years because they can get a higher paying/higher profile job somewhere else.
@2qly+171JMv3M said
"I knew some FCGs that were so proud of tricking Ford into making Ford think they knew what they were doing, but really they admittedly know nothing."
sounds like an awful lot of Ford especially in management
I knew some FCGs that were so proud of tricking Ford into making Ford think they knew what they were doing, but really they admittedly know nothing.
I know of a couple FCGs that left. I imagine high overall retention rate
Well, the job market is a little tight this year ..