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 […]
Let’s Rewrite Your 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 […]
Building Real Friendships That Can Get Engineers Hired
It might sound contrary to the idea of career professionalism but building real friendships can and will get you hired. In fact, if you’re not making friends when you network, you’re not doing it properly. Networking is the most powerful job search strategy because it will lead to getting referred in for jobs that […]
How to Use the PSI Framework to Sell Yourself in a Job Interview
PSI stands for more than just “pounds per square inch” when inflating tires. It also stands for a meaningful way to enhance your value to a potential new or existing employer, especially during job interviews. The PSI framework is also a great method you can use on the job to sell a project, product or […]
