Mentoring

TECC 212: Mentoring Matters – How to Find a Great Engineering Mentor Regardless of How Busy People Are

October 1, 2019 By EMI

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In this episode, I discuss why mentoring matters and how you can find a great engineering mentor in your career. I will be sharing some advice that I received from a great conference I attended in New Jersey, the ASCE Tri-State (NJ-NY-PA) Conference in Atlantic City in late September 2019. At the conference, I attended a panel entitled: “Mentoring Matters: The Role of a Mentor in Helping to Chart Your Career Path”. The panel consisted of experienced engineering professionals who talked about the importance of mentoring and how it helped them in their careers. They provided a lot of great strategies that you can use in selecting, finding and getting the most out of a mentor in your career.

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Here Are the Key Points Discussed and the Professionals That Mentioned Then During the Mentoring Matters Panel:

TECC 87: Reinventing Yourself So You Can Stand Out in Your Engineering Career

November 24, 2015 By Christian Knutson, PE, PgMP, PMP

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In this episode, Dorie Clark (@dorieclark), marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review shares some strategies on how you can reinvent yourself by rebranding, and her thoughts on having mentors for mid to senior engineers and mastermind groups as part of your reinvention journey.

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TECC 045: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – How to Find or Become a Mentor in Your Engineering Career – EYOS Part 3 of 7

February 3, 2015 By EMI

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In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to give you strategies for finding the right mentor in your engineering career and/or becoming one.

This episode is the third of a seven-part Engineer Your Own Success series podcast where I am detailing the 7 key elements from my book Engineer Your Own Success – 7 Key Elements to Creating Extraordinary Engineering Career – updated and expanded edition published by IEEE-Wiley Press.

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” – John Crosby

In the Take Action Today segment of this episode I will give you one piece of advice that you can implement immediately to put you on the path of finding the right mentor.

I define a mentor as a person who helps develop your professional life by assisting you in defining, pursuing, and achieving your goals and ultimately creating a successful and enjoyable engineering career. However, you MUST know your definition of success so that your mentor can help you achieve it.

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TECC 011: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Deciding on the Technical or Managerial Career Path as an Engineer

January 29, 2014 By EMI

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In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to provide some tips to an engineer on how to decide whether to stay on the technical track in his career or to make a move toward management when the time is right. Even though he is early in his career, he is concerned that if he wants to eventually transition into management, he must start preparing now—and he is right. This is a challenge that too many engineers face.

“Your career is like a garden. It can hold an assortment of life’s energy that yields a bounty for you. You do not need to grow just one thing in your garden. You do not need to do just one thing in your career.” – Jennifer Ritchie Payette

The career-changing tip at the end of the show will help you decide which path in your engineering career is best for you.

Our guest for Session 11 is Kevin, a 23-year-old systems engineer.

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TECC 005: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Finding and Getting the Most Out of a Mentor in Your Engineering Career

November 6, 2013 By EMI

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In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to outline the steps for finding a mentor in your engineering career who can guide you toward achieving your goals.

Finding the right mentor in your engineering career can rapidly facilitate your development. A mentor can help you avoid mistakes that other engineers have made in the past.

As always, I will also provide a career-changing tip at the end of the show. This week’s tip will force you to identify the most important challenge or goal in your engineering career and will give you a strategy to overcome or achieve it.

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” – John Crosby

During the show, I will help an engineer put together a plan for finding the perfect mentor for him. Our guest for Session 5 is Praveen from India, a 27-year-old materials engineer in the automotive industry.

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