Focus on Getting Better at Your Engineering Job Every Day
Whether you’re starting an engineering management role for the first time or you’re a more seasoned professional, your energy is likely to wane after a few months of focusing at getting better at your engineering job. You’ve settled in and learned the ropes, after all. It becomes easier to do what needs to get done […]
How to Make Yourself an Always Demanded Engineering Professional
Regardless of your job, industry, or position in the company you work for, it is always important to stay in the competition and be an in-demand professional. By being a demanded engineering professional, you’ll always have options and opportunities to grow and take on bigger roles. If your boss gives you more responsibilities, it is […]
How Best to Engineer a New Career in 2019
Winter has gone. New Year resolutions may have been broken, but the days are getting longer and spring is in the air. The outlook is rosy. It’s a good time for people to consider their future best career options, whether they are in the right job or to reflect on how they want their […]
How to Use Your Fear to Build Your Self-Confidence as an Engineering Professional
Building self-confidence is not easy. For many engineering professionals, comfort is a function of routine. We establish a set of sequences that we enjoy, that we know we succeed at, that will make us feel good, and that’s the end of it. But, to build true self-confidence, we need to break our routines.
Young Engineers Moving into Management Positions
So, what is Engineering Management? Is it preparing budgets, scheduling, resource allocation and earned value management? These skills are the barometers of monitoring projects and work groups. But management principles are more defined than you’d think. Specifically:
3 Ways to Build Your Courage Muscles for Job Search
Your job search and networking success depend heavily on how courageous you are. It calls for reaching out to strangers and starting conversations with them without any assurance that they’ll like or even listen to you. Yet, it’s important to have courage because you have to take these job search actions regardless of your […]
Engineering Tools for Leading Top-notch Engineering Teams
Managing an engineering team can be a highly difficult task. With major responsibilities like overseeing the project’s progress and keeping track of team member’s daily work, it’s important to have a competitive mindset, the right skill set and must-have engineering tools for engineering teams. Digital tools that are helpful to engineering teams have grown in […]
Things You Need to Worry About When Running Your Own Engineering Business
Starting and running your own engineering business is always challenging. As many consultancies are small businesses, they face the same problems as similar ventures. 54% of SMB leaders have stated that acquiring talent is a problem. In the world of engineering businesses, this is just the first step in a myriad of things you […]
Let’s Rewrite Your 2019 Career Goals
It’s been five weeks since we returned from the holidays. We went quickly back to our jobs, the same old routines, the same old molds. Some of us have already transitioned to a new job or a new company in January, but some still haven’t achieved what they aimed for regardless of how much […]
How Good Writing Skills Can Benefit Your Engineering Career
The second half of the 20th century saw a significant rise of demand for qualified engineers, mostly because after the World War II there was a lot to be rebuilt but also science and technology started to develop rapidly. Large companies, often owned by people that weren’t engineers, but rich investors, needed specialists that could […]