How to Get Noticed for the Right Reasons: Three Career Advancement Principles You Don’t Want to Forget

Featured Guest Blogger: John Morgan of Pounding the Pavement
John Morgan writes for the up-and-coming career blog, Pounding the Pavement. In his free time, Mr. Morgan also tackles topics related to online career training for Guide to Career Education.
Have you ever noticed that some people seem to be predisposed for success in the workplace? I’m not [...]

Important Things to Consider When Looking for that First Engineering Job

Featured Guest Blogger: William Merunka
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This time of the year can be one of the most stressful times of an engineering student’s undergraduate college career.  Some of the things that you might be encountering in the upcoming months is: getting all [...]

What Credentials Should I Get in My Career?

In speaking to many different professionals around the world, I often get the question, “What credentials should I obtain in my career advancement efforts?”  This is a very good question and it certainly requires some thought and estimation of how much impact certain credentials will have on your career.  I define credentials as licenses, certifications, [...]

Will Technology Ruin Your Career?

Featured Guest Blogger: William Merunka

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As time passes, new methods are developed and tasks that used to take up valuable time or would be tedious have become fast and simple.  One such item is the internet.  While it may have caught on [...]

Have you Learned your Lessons yet?

Featured Guest Blogger: Robert Mote
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Every major project carries out an exercise to determine the Lessons Learned for future projects based on the design and execution of the present project.
When a project approaches maturation, project management decides to arrange a three-day Lesson Learned seminar across all disciplines. Some three [...]

Career Development Distractions and How to Overcome Them

Featured Guest Blogger: William Merunka
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Career development is something that is never completed.  It is like an uncharted road trip with friends.  You start out with one objective, and when you think you have accomplished it and it’s time to go home, a [...]

A Declaration of Independence for Your Career!

July 4th is celebrated in the United States of America as a day of independence, in remembrance of that day in 1776 when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the [...]

7 Steps for Building Successful LinkedIn Relationships

This is an article I wrote for Phil Richards blog about building relationships through LinkedIn.  I hope this is helpful to you in your career advancement efforts!
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Apathy, the Professional Disease

Apathy, is a killer disease that affect many professional engineers through circumstances, culture and their career. No one is immune to the shadows it can throw upon oneself. But how do we break the cycle? Speaking for myself, I have found my answers in my work environment and my passion for engineering respect.

Congrats on Engineering Your Way through College: Now Try Finding A Job!

The engineering curriculum at many colleges is among the most tedious and time consuming of all majors.  While students in other majors can spend a portion of junior year and most of senior year “enjoying” their college lives, engineers are often up late at night in the labs and libraries working on design projects and [...]

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