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When I talk to CEOs of engineering companies, I always ask them what they are looking for when they hire engineers, especially in this economy where they hire fewer than they used to. They all

This is a guest post by Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP Over at my Engineering and Leadership blog, I tend to talk quite a bit about how business skills can be applied to the

I can’t emphasize enough how important your public speaking skills are as an engineer. Depending on your discipline and specific job description, you very well could have to deliver multiple presentations per week throughout your

Engineers like data because it provides facts that they can use to do analyses. Well, I have some data in this post that I believe can be extremely useful to you in your engineering career

Many engineers join our Institute for Engineering Career Development to find the perfect engineering job or as I like to say it, create their ideal engineering career.  My question to our members is always, “How

Through providing career-coaching services to engineers, I know that the most common problem that developing engineers are trying to solve is how to become a successful engineering manager.  After spending the early part of their

This is a guest post by Jason Kent, P.E. This is the second post of a two part series entitled Tips for a Successful Geographic Relocation in Your Engineering Career – Financial Tips for Relocating. 

Designing your ideal engineering career…. This post is based on an interview I did with Jessica Smith, a younger engineer working as a transportation planner at the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in Fairbanks, Alaska.  In

Lay to rest the debate on whether ambition is good or bad. It’s good. If it take’s a motive force such as ambition to develop new technologies, advance science, or explore new forms of art

I have had the pleasure of providing career-coaching services to several engineers recently who are considering and seeking advice for successful geographic relocation in their engineering careers. Therefore, I decided to write a series of

Featured Guest Blogger: Author of the Early Financial Freedom blog When Anthony asked me to be a guest blogger, I jumped at the offer since I have so much in common with his distinguished audience.

In one of my last posts I talked a lot about how everyone is in a rush these days between the technology and tight budgets; everyone wants everything to be done yesterday.  The point of

Through our Institute for Engineering Career Development, I have worked with many engineers on a one-on-one basis providing Engineering Management Instituteing and guidance, and the two things that almost all of our members ask for

Like many professions today, engineering can be a stressful profession due to the project deadlines, shrinking budgets, and client demands. In this post I want to provide some principles that Zen monks follow, and how

The other day I was speaking with one of my clients who is a consulting engineer and also the owner of a small consulting engineering company.  In his line of work, he is often called