Does Work-Life Balance Exist? A Myth or a Reality?

In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a work-life balance requires creativity, passion for work, and a contemporary way of thinking. As corporate life stretches to late night hours, many successful employees have started to figure out ways to mingle their work life with their personal life, so that they are able to fulfill their commitments to both.

How to Hire and Manage Millennials

With millennials making up a large part of the workforce, it’s fast becoming necessary for all employers to know how to manage them. Millennials who have just graduated are well aware of the growing opportunities in other countries. As a result, they are likely to consider moving abroad; one study suggests that 59% of millennials […]

Getting an Engineering Job after a Hiatus – Engineering Career TV Ep. 26

Q: How can I get an engineering job after a hiatus? Welcome to Episode #26 of Engineering Career TV. The topic for this episode is getting an engineering job after a hiatus.  I spend most of the Engineering Career TV episodes answering questions that have been submitted from engineers around the world on how to rapidly advance […]

How to Spark Leadership in your Engineering Career – Ep 146

How to Spark Leadership in your Engineering Career

In this episode, Chris Knutson, PE interviews Angie Morgan from Lead Star on how to spark leadership in your engineering career. Angie touches on the importance of credibility, character and service-based leadership and how you can use these to build a career of success as in engineering. Engineering Quotes: Here are the key points on how to […]

5 Ways to Protect Yourself from Other People’s Stress

It’s a fact for every engineer, in either an academic or professional setting, that stress will be present.  Because this is the case, you can either view it as a horrific pollutant or accept it as fact and design a way to mitigate or absorb it.  I suggest the later approach.  Remove any negative or […]

Be Thankful for Your Loved Ones and Cherish Every Minute With Them

Okay, so this post is not really related to engineering career development, but it’s Thanksgiving week and I wanted to write about something more family related. Work–life balance has been a major topic of discussion in much of my work with motivated engineers. The question of how to have a successful career in engineering but […]