Posts Categorized: Career Success
Staying Confident While Searching for a Job
Whether you’re recently graduated, unemployed, or looking to switch careers, a job search can be a gruelingly painful process. You have to remain confident in yourself and your qualifications and not show discouragement or defeat. The ability to stay motivated during an extended job hunt is critical. Here are a few ways to reevaluate your Read more »
Common Fears Holding You Back From Employment Success
Do you find yourself constantly making excuses as to why your career hasn’t advanced? Are you feeling stuck in your job, but not enough to look for a new one? The root of these excuses is fear. Fear keeps people from growing and changing. It stops you from taking the next step and achieving your Read more »
Building a Career Advancement Plan
Whether you have been in your industry a while or are just starting a career in a new profession, a career advancement plan is essential in making sure you achieve your career goals. When you lack an advancement plan, you don’t hold yourself accountable to striving towards your goals and you get comfortable in your Read more »
Are You Satisfied With Your Job?
It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday. You’re sitting in a meeting that seems to be going nowhere. You still have another three hours worth of work left at your desk. “So much for getting out of here at a decent time,” you think to yourself. We’ve all been in the situation where we start to Read more »
What Should I Do Today?| Planning a Successful Workday
In a fast-paced industry, managing time efficiently is a skill many architects and engineers must pick up quickly. Learning how to plan your day and set work priorities can increase productivity, decrease stress, and reduce the amount of overtime hours you are putting in. Time management is more than jumping from task to task putting Read more »
Continuing Education Opportunities for Engineers
Whether you’re a civil, electrical, mechanical or other type of engineer, you know that continuing education is a necessity for advancing your career and maintaining your license. Continuing education requirements for your license may depend on the state in which you’re practicing as well as the discipline. To help you navigate the requirements for CE Read more »
Tips for Keeping Your Skills Current
Have you ever wondered how some individuals continually end up on top? Is it luck? Were they born with natural skills? Were they blessed with great connections or given a head start? Maybe, but more than likely the people on the top got there through hard work and dedication. If you surveyed 100 of the Read more »
Selling Yourself
If you are looking for work, you know that you have to sell yourself to potential employers, to persuade them that you are the best person for the job. However, the idea that the job search is akin to selling is a bit off-putting to some people. The idea of selling in general is seen Read more »
Write It Right
Writing is something we all do in a business environment, and as someone once said about common sense, we all feel we are proficient at it because it is such a common activity. But, as with anything else, there is good writing and there is bad writing. Good writing on the whole is simple, clear, Read more »
Never Make a Snap Decision
You have just been offered what looks to be a great job that may lead to a great career. Should you jump at the opportunity and tell the company right away that you will take the job? Some may believe that is the way to go, but psychologists have found that when you are faced Read more »