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TECC 255: Developing a Growth Mindset for Career Success

September 14, 2021 By EMI

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Developing a Growth Mindset for Career Success

In this episode, we talk to Lesa Edwards, MPA, CJSS, MRW, ACRW, CELDC, a Master Resume Writer, Certified Job Search Strategist, Certified Executive and Leadership Development Coach, award-winning podcaster of The Exclusive Career Coach, Master Practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and international speaker on job search topics. We talk about how you can develop a growth mindset to act as a primary tool for career advancement.

Engineering Quotes:

Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset

Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About Developing a Growth Mindset:

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Filed Under: Job Search/Salary/Relocation, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: be brave and try different things, Brooke Castillo, building awareness of your thoughts, Career Advancement, Career Success, Change the way you think, CTFAR, Developing a Growth Mindset, Get a Coach, growth mindset, Having a coach's perspective, job search, job search strategies, Lesa Edwards, mental manuals, Mindset for Career Success, passive and active job search, Professional stalking, The Exclusive Career Coach, The Life School Coach, your entire range of emotions

3 Steps to Building an Accountability System for Your Engineering Career

May 6, 2021 By EMI

This is a guest post by Nader Mowlaee

Accountability SystemCareer success and growth comes to us when we accept responsibility for our actions, our wins, and our failures. This is because what we put into our career, from education to continuous learning, training, and certifications, dictates what we get out of task accomplishments, project achievements, and daily performance. We begin to notice that no one else but ourselves controls the power of success by taking full ownership of our consistent everyday actions, positive thoughts, and constructive energy.

Taking full ownership for building an accountability system for your engineering career is a powerful thing because there is no way to go back and fix the mistakes you made or change your career choice. However, at one point, you will discover that to change your engineering career trajectory, you will have to make changes to your daily routine and build an accountability system to guarantee those changes will remain in place for as long as it takes for them to become habits.

Accountability System

Here Are Three Tips for Building an Accountability System for Your Engineering Career:

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: 3 Steps, accept responsibility, Accountability System, balanced levels of self-awareness, Building an Accountability System, Building career success, Career Success, changes to your daily routine, daily performance, Engineering Career, engineering career goals, engineering career trajectory, Nader Mowlaee, project achievements, success and growth, task accomplishments

Let’s Rewrite Your 2019 Career Goals

February 4, 2019 By EMI

Let’s Rewrite Your 2019 Career Goals is a guest post by Nader Mowlaee

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 they tried. If that sounds like you, then this article is for you. Before we get started though, remember that there is nothing wrong with your big 2019 career goals and dreams, so don’t ever lower your expectations. Lowering the target won’t make it easier to hit if you lack the fundamental skills. Your goals aren’t too big; they are not the problem. If you haven’t achieved them yet consider the possibility that there are still other ways that you can persist and pursue your goals. It’s what you deserve.

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: books, Career Goals for 2019, Career Success, Engineering Career, failure, Goals/Goal Setting, goalsetting, mentors, Nader Mowlaee, Re-evaluate Your Goals, Rewrite Your Career Goals, SMARTER goals

5 Laws for Engineer Career Success

August 22, 2018 By EMI

5 Laws for Engineer Career Success is a blog post by Tom Jager

Career Success

“Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.”

This quote comes from Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk and beautifully describes what each engineer wants to do and should do to achieve career success: create, innovate, and improve everything around them.

Becoming a successful “wizard,” or engineer, has never been easy because the profession requires complex skills and even more complex responsibilities. To enter such a career, one has to develop the courage and personality traits needed to endure all the challenges one will face in this profession.

Despite a popular opinion, knowledge alone is insufficient to succeed as an engineering professional. You have to have that desire to design the things that millions are only dreaming about. That’s what drives people working on such amazing projects such as an autonomous car and an upcoming flight to Mars.

What else distinguishes these brilliant engineers?

The ability to follow the unwritten laws of the profession that keep them focused and moving forward.

In this article I’d like to focus on these laws in hopes that they can help you to become a successful or more successful engineer.

Law #1: Do Good Work

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: Career Success, Do Good Work, engineer, failures, Focus on Your Strengths, Have Fun, Never Stop Learning, opportunities, passionate, successful engineer, time management skills

What Engineers Should Look for When Choosing Career Mentors

June 27, 2018 By EMI

This is a guest post by Carol Evenson
Career Mentors

If you are one of almost 2 million engineers in the United States looking for a mentor, then you have made a smart career decision. Studies show receiving mentoring from the right career mentor can make a measurable difference. So, what should you look for in career mentors? Here’s some suggestions.

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: Accountability, career decision, Career Development, career mentor, Career Mentors, Career Success, Carol Evenson, communication skills, employee recognition program, Engineering, meet regularly, mentee, Motivation, passion, productive contributor, time management, youth development

TECC 147: The Best Thing I Ever Did to Advance my Career

April 18, 2017 By EMI

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In this episode, I am going to share with you the best thing I ever did to advance my career in hopes that it will drive massive growth in your engineering career.  Usually when you look back on your career, you can see a few moves that made a huge impact on your success — I want to help you identify those and duplicate them.

Engineering Quotes:

Advance my Career

Advance my CareerHere are the key points:

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Filed Under: Career Game Changers, Career Goals and Challenges, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: Advance my Career, Anthony Fasano, Career Success, engineering career success, Expertise, relationships, Speaking Engagements

If Goal Setting Isn’t Working, Try Going With A Theme

July 25, 2016 By EMI

It’s pretty standard fare here on TECC to espouse the benefits of setting goals.  The reason we come back to goal setting over and over is because it works.  Goals:

  1.  Define a future intended situation.
  2.  Focus resource application.
  3.  Highlight what is important.
  4.  Can help bring what we want most in life into reality.

Goals can be great, but for some people they can be useless.  Not everyone operates according to goals and it’s only been in the past few months that I’ve come to realize this.  It’s not that goals don’t accomplish the items listed, they simply don’t inspire.

And for some people, goals can actually keep them from achieving what they want.

The reason is that the goal – especially if it’s of the big, audacious type – can become intimidating.  In these situations, instead of putting one’s head down and pushing through, the shields go up in a defensive measure to keep the intimidating work away.  Procrastination, stress, and a lot of other negative coping mechanisms kick in.

Not the best way to move forward in one’s career or achieve the level of personal success sought.

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Filed Under: Blog, Career Goals and Challenges Tagged With: Career Success, Christian Knutson, engineering success, goals, theme

TECC 119: An Engineer Overcomes her Fear of Public Speaking in One Year

June 14, 2016 By EMI

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In this episode, I talk about Lu Ding, PE, PTOE, an Engineer who overcame her fear of public speaking in one year.  I specifically discuss her ECSx talk at the Engineering Career Summit in New Orleans this past May. You will also here Lu’s talk in this episode and you can watch it at the bottom of this post.

Engineering Success quotes:

Fear

FearHere are the key points from the episode:

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Filed Under: Communication/Public Speaking, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: Career Success, engineering career advice, fear, public speaking, public speaking skills for engineers, skills

8 Traits of Exceptional Engineer Leaders

January 11, 2016 By EMI

8 Traits of Exceptional Engineer Leaders

We all know bad leadership when we see it.  Most likely when you read that last sentence, the image of that bad leader popped into your mind.  What might be a bit harder to delineate, is the distinction between good leadership and effective leadership.  I think this is an important one for engineer’s interested in achieving their highest potential in this arena of the business.

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Filed Under: Blog, Leadership/Management Tagged With: action oriented, Career Success, effectiveness, followership, Leadership, self-regulation

The 7 Key Result Areas for Engineering Career Success

November 30, 2015 By EMI

Engineering Career

You have the skills and ability right now to be ten times more successful in your engineering career. To make this change requires a strategy to focus your efforts and a commitment to incremental improvement.   The strategy will be built on seven domains that you have complete control over.   

Complete control to either improve or do nothing.  

All you have to do is apply the right attitude, employ the right mindset, then get to work.

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: Career Success, communications, continuous improvement, Leadership, networking, Productivity, relationship development, self-development

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