Building Your Engineering Career Flywheel with the Two Engineering Executives – Ep 086
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview two engineering executives from Big Red Dog engineering – Will Schnier, PE and Russell Yeager, PE – and we talk about building your engineering career, the concept of a flywheel, and how these guys have used this concept to build a leading engineering company. […]
How To Work a Room And In Your Engineering Project Team – The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Ep 080
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson interviews Susan RoAne who is a world-class teacher, speaker and author on the topic of relationship development and networking. Her books How to Work A Room and Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World are great in providing […]
TECC Community Questions Answered – Part 3 – The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – Ep 079
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson and I are going to answer more questions from our listeners asking for career advice. “If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It’s very important that you find something that […]
Engineering Career Success Summit 2015 Breakdown of Lessons Learned – Ep 060
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, my co-host Chris Knutson and I are break down the lessons we have learned from our recent event, the Engineering Career Success Summit (ECSS). We also interviewed Skye Coleman to give you an attendee’s perspective and his key take-aways from the event. “All the time and […]
Seven Strategies for Networking and Building Relationships as an Engineer – EYOS Part 5 of 7 – Ep 055
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I provide seven strategies that can help you become a better networker and building better relationships, if you apply them. This episode is the fifth part in the seven part series of the recently released updated and expanded edition of my Engineer Your Own Success book. […]
Global Networking From LinkedIn and Beyond – Ep 051
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Sanjay Gupta, how powerful is global networking like Linkedin which has more than 40,000 connections. He created and manages the LinkedIn Construction Group called Linking Construction with over 138,000 members but still remains extremely responsive to people. In this episode, he discusses his approach […]
Five Steps to Managing Conflict in Your Engineering Career and Personal Life – Ep 046
Image by yanalya on Freepik In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Dr. Zach Schaefer on the topic of conflict, which most of us struggle with. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi Dr. Zach Schaefer (Dr. Z), the Founder and President of […]
The Key to Controlling Your Destiny in Your Life and Engineering Career – Ep 042
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I give you the one key that you must know in order to controlling your destiny in your life. “Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.” – Pablilius Syrus In our Take Action Today segment at the end of the show, I will […]
IECD 2014 Fall Meetup – What Our Panelists Taught us on Communication and Networking – Ep 029
In this bonus session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to summarize the panel sessions on communication and networking from our recent Institute for Engineering Career Development meetup in San Diego. The Take Action Today segment of the show will give you a strategy to drastically improve your relationships – immediately. “What […]
Six Action Items for Differentiating Yourself as an Engineer by Doing Things that You Are Not Always Supposed to Do – Ep 027
In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to give you six action items you can use to differentiate yourself in the industry. Please note, most of these actions are the opposite of what most people will tell you to do. “The job is what you do when you are told […]