A Five Step Year in Review: Are You Building a Successful Engineer Career?
Another year has gone by in your engineering career and you are about to embark on yet another one. As each year goes by in your career: how exactly are you measuring whether or not you are building a successful engineering career? In this post, I would like to share with you some ways that […]
The 7 Key Result Areas for Engineering Career Success
You have the skills and ability right now to be ten times more successful in your engineering career. To make this change requires a strategy to focus your efforts and a commitment to incremental improvement. The strategy will be built on seven domains that you have complete control over. Complete control to either […]
Be Grateful When You Want To, Not When Someone Tells You To
“Be grateful.” It’s what every trending blog-post, business book, and bystander are telling us we need to do to get where we want to go. Want to make more money? Be grateful. Improve a relationship? Be grateful. Get noticed at work? Be grateful. What’s that you’re thinking? You don’t always feel grateful. Of course, […]
3 Reasons to Design Gratitude Into Your Engineering Career
Do you operate with a zero-sum mindset in your engineering career? Do you believe that there is only so much pie to go around and if someone else gets it, you won’t get yours? Or, do you operate with a both/and mindset? That is, do you believe that there is adequate opportunity to support both […]
How to Stand Out (and get the interviews you want)
This is a guest blog post from Zubin Ajmera In this extremely challenging job environment, it is not only tough to get an engineering job, but equally tough to get an interview or a phone call for an engineering position. Several studies have shown that recruiters or engineering hiring managers spend roughly 6-10 seconds on […]
The 3 D’s of Productivity or How to Work Smarter not Faster as an Engineer
This is a guest blog post by Skye J. Coleman, PE These days, the modern engineering office is filled with cubicles stacked right next to one another. Two monitors sit on each desk and low-profile dividers barely separate one person from the next. For 8 to 10 hours a day, Monday through Friday, engineers young […]
Skyrocket Your Productivity with These 5 Apps for Your Smartphone
This is a guest blog post by Dave Willenberg, LEED AP Let’s talk about how technology has advanced productivity over the years… Eighty million and eight hundred thousand. The Apollo Guidance Computer did a great job of putting people on the moon, but that’s how many of them you’d need to match the processing […]
Effectiveness vs. Efficiency: Picking A Productivity Mindset That Boosts Your Results
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker Our mindset drives everything we do. In Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, the reader is introduced to two mindsets: fixed and growth. From her research, Dweck has shown the mindset with which a person operates will determine […]
Don’t Leave Anything for Chance When Engineering Your Workflow Routine
I spent a very long time, writing down the tasks I wanted to do each day in a notebook as the main part of my workflow routine for a long time. I finally realized a few things one day that made me question my approach. I would forget to do things that I have to […]
The Fundamental Equation of Leadership for Engineers
This is a guest blog post by Pat Sweet, P. Eng. Leadership for Engineers. For most of us, seems to be one of those “you know it when you see it” kind of things. It’s hard to describe, but easy to notice. In effect we’ve all worked for great leaders, and we’ve all worked for […]