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
Motagg’s Blog by 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 [...]

True Life: I’m a Civil Engineering Graduate, Now What?

Featured Guest Blogger: William Merunka

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This time of the year is one that I hold very close to my heart.  Four years ago my name was called and I walked across the stage and grabbed that piece of paper that I and so many [...]

Professional Organizations, Is it for me?

Featured Guest Blogger: William Merunka

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In the engineering world, there are numerous professional organizations.  Some are focused on a general discipline of engineering, and some are focused on a specific area of an engineering field or based on regional locations.  One of the biggest [...]

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Featured Guest Blogger: Robert Mote
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A graduate engineer has been working for two years in the drawing office and has reached breaking point. Comes to you and ask for advice, should I stay or should I go?
What would you say?
This happened to me when I was a graduate engineer [...]

I Wish I Was a Better…..

Often times in our careers we complain or we wish we were better at something because we feel our inadequacy is holding us back.  For example, you might say I wish I was a better public speaker or I wish I was a better writer.  I have good news for you.  Most of the tools [...]

Professional Societies: How Important are they to Career Advancement?

I have seen quite a few discussions on this topic as of late in the social media arenas, so I figured I would give my input, being that I have always been very involved in professional societies.
I am a firm believer that your career advancement is strongly related to the relationships you build in your [...]

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