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Understanding and Optimizing the Long Game That Is Your Engineering Career

August 10, 2021 By EMI

This is a guest post by Jacob Valentien, PE 

Understanding and Optimizing the Long Game That Is Your Engineering Career

As I reflect and think about the various blog topics that I could write about for the Civil Engineering Collective, I wanted to start off by summarizing one of the biggest concepts that I see young engineers struggle with in their first few years after graduating college and starting their career. The issue is that your engineering career is quite the long game, and it has only truly started. Engineering school is step one and obtaining your professional engineering license should be the step where everything accelerates (and not slows down).

Establishing a challenging and rewarding engineering career is very important to me, and I hope to break down some foundational concepts so that you can set off on your own challenging and rewarding engineering career. I think the following four major components are most critical to take into consideration for your career development:

  • Mindset
  • Experience
  • Continual learning
  • Goal setting

You can find tons of content on each of these topics from all kinds of sources, both internally focused on the engineering field and externally. I think there is value in immersing yourself in these topics early and often to continually remind yourself of the value of each.

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering Tagged With: 40-hour work week, Continual learning, engineering business, Engineering Career, engineering firm, engineering school, experience, first engineering job, goal setting, Jacob Valentien, learning opportunities, Mindset, positive feedback, positive mindset, Professional Engineer, quality work, Setting goals

Things You Need to Worry About When Running Your Own Engineering Business

February 7, 2019 By EMI

Things You Need to Worry About When Running Your Own Engineering Business is a guest blog by Scott Matthews

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 need to worry about. To help your business grow, we’ve analyzed the biggest concerns.

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Filed Under: Blog, Business/Entrepreneurship Tagged With: Best Essays, Brand Identity, clearly defined roles, Detailed Project Report, engineering business, engineering business owners, expenses, investments, Nurturing a culture, Proessaywriting, Scholar Advisor, Scott Matthews, Understanding regulations

TECC 126: Career Advice on How to Grow My CAD Business

August 23, 2016 By EMI

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In this episode, I give a listener Scott Tarcy career advice on how to grow his CAD design business including what strategy(ies) he should utilize.

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CAD Business

CAD Business

Here are the key points from this episode on building a CAD business:

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Filed Under: Business/Entrepreneurship, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: Anthony Fasano, business challenges, business development, business growht, business strategies, CAD Business, engineering business, Scott Tarcy

Starting an Engineering Company Today Can Be Like Driving Into Death Valley

March 15, 2011 By EMI

Starting an Engineering Company

Starting an Engineering Company

This is a guest post by Brandon Lee Walter where he discusses the process of starting an engineering company.

I decided to try to make the move to a company that sounded like they would be prepared to ride out the upcoming recession in May of 2008. After being let go from that company, I wasn’t sure what to do, especially since the company was supposed to have had the type of clients who would not be hit so hard by the down economy. I had always wanted to start my own company, however didn’t think I had enough experience at the time. I had also not known of any single-owner civil engineering firm that had been around for a substantial amount of time. After talking with a buddy who had a government job (public works) as well as other previous co-workers, I decided why not dip my feet into the craziness that is known as the building industry and give it a shot starting an engineering company. I was able to get in contact with a civil engineer who by chance was about to close his shop because of unforeseeable events. The perfect storm brewed which resulted in me starting an engineering company, my very own LLC.

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Filed Under: Leadership/Management Tagged With: engineering business, Starting an Engineering Company

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