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Take Action Despite Uncertainty

February 10, 2020 By EMI

This is a guest blog by Jeff Perry

Take Action

“Treat mistakes as learning, not failure” ~ Dan Sullivan 
“Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast” ~ Tom Peters  
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison 
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill 

These quotes, and others like them, seem to be preached more and more, all of the time. Viewing failure in this way is actually quite important; it allows us to move through uncertainty, even though that uncertainty can be a source of great fear. But believing in the principle doesn’t mean it’s automatically easy to actually do it. So how do we deal with fear, move through uncertainty, and take action anyway? Here are four ideas:

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Filed Under: Blog, Career Goals and Challenges Tagged With: accountability partner, fear, finding a mentor, human decisions, Jeff Perry, learn, professional uncertainty, Psychological Safety, Rational Brain, responsibility, risk and consequences, survival mechanism, take action, Uncertainty

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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Engineering Mentor

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

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Filed Under: Mentoring, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: build a relationship with your mentor, Engineering Career, finding a mentor, formal mentoring program, How to Find a Great Engineering Mentor, Mentoring Matters, mentors, reaching out to a mentor

TCEP 073: Civil Engineering Career Navigation Advice from a Young Engineering Manager

December 20, 2017 By EMI

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Civil Engineering Career Navigation Advice from a Young Engineering Manager

Career Navigation

In episode 073 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I talk with Shaun McGrath, P.E., CCM, a successful young division leader at a successful civil engineering company about career navigation through the early portions of your engineering career.

Here are some of the questions I ask Shaun:

  • Talk about internships and how they have helped you.
  • Tell us about the importance of different civil engineering career paths.
  • Talk about stumbling blocks and learning from them.
  • Is there a specific experience that you can recall that you learned something valuable from?
  • Tell us about the importance of finding a mentor.
  • Tell me more about networking.

Engineering Quotes:

Career Navigation

Career Navigation

Here are some key points discussed on civil engineering career navigation:

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: Career Navigation, Career Navigation Advice, Career Path, CCM, Civil Engineering, civil engineering career, different career paths, finding a mentor, internships, networking, P.E, re-evaluate yourself, Shaun McGrath

3 Tips for Finding the Right Mentor as an Engineer

December 4, 2017 By EMI

3 Tips for Finding the Right Mentor as an Engineer




Q: How can I find the right mentor as an engineer?

Welcome to episode #36 of Engineering Career TV. The theme for today’s episode is: 3 Tips for finding the right mentor as an engineer.

I spend almost all of the Engineering Career TV episodes answering questions that have been submitted by engineers around the world.  The questions are typically focused on professional development for engineering professionals, especially relevant to practicing engineers.

You can submit questions for the show by clicking here.

Let’s jump into today’s topic: 3 tips for finding the right mentor as an engineer.  This topic is based on a question from Ron, who asks the following:
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