Developing a Personal Brand as the Jack of All Trades
At some point in your career or during your job search, you must have been asked the famous interview question, “Tell me about yourself.” If you often respond to such questions with “I’m great at solving problems” or “I’m a good leader who others can depend on in all situations,” this article will help you […]
3 Steps to Building an Accountability System for Your Engineering Career
Career 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 […]
2 Steps to Setting Goals for Changing Your Engineering Career in 2021
STEP 1: Identify the Outcomes You Want to Create or Contribute To Align your mission with a company’s mission that motivates you. It is tough to come up with innovative ideas by yourself, especially if you are starting to set new goals or changing your engineering career and you do not know where to start. […]
This Is How Engineers Can Build a Good Work-Life Balance
To have a good work-life balance, you can’t live your life to work. It should be the other way around: Work so you can have a good life.
How Mechanical Engineers Can Give Back to Their Community
As a mechanical engineer (ME), you can look forward to the inherent rewards of a lucrative career. An in-demand job and even job mobility as mechanical engineers typically make above-average earnings here the United States. However, engineers today are looking for more than the monetary rewards that come with this dynamic role. That’s why many […]
How to Handle Tough Interview Questions for Engineers
Preparing for an interview is crucial for moving you forward in starting your engineering career. One of the best ways to get ready for your interview is by tackling the tough questions with a strategy.
3 Actions Engineering Professionals Can Take to Build Their Personal Brands
Engineers should constantly be evolving in order to move forward in their careers by taking personal development efforts to enhance personal branding. Personal brands’ tools enable you to communicate and promote who you are and what you’re destined to do.
Tips to Engineer Your Leadership and Coaching Skills for Better Product Development
So, you have an awesome idea for a new technology for product development. This is the one. It’s going to make you a millionaire. Or so you think. The problem is, 90 percent of new startups fail, and a lack of collaboration is one of the reasons why. Sure, you want to take the credit […]
How to Use Your Fear to Build Your Self-Confidence as an Engineering Professional
Building self-confidence is not easy. For many engineering professionals, comfort is a function of routine. We establish a set of sequences that we enjoy, that we know we succeed at, that will make us feel good, and that’s the end of it. But, to build true self-confidence, we need to break our routines.
3 Ways to Build Your Courage Muscles for Job Search
Your job search and networking success depend heavily on how courageous you are. It calls for reaching out to strangers and starting conversations with them without any assurance that they’ll like or even listen to you. Yet, it’s important to have courage because you have to take these job search actions regardless of your […]