Managing Your Career

Quiz — What’s Your Work Style?

Do you always like to have everything neatly planned out? Or do you follow your intuition and look for improvements wherever possible? Or are you always focused on getting to the end goal? Knowing you

Practical Tips For Gaining More Confidence

The thought of leading a project makes your stomach sink. You dread having to speak in front of your colleagues. And you regularly second-guess yourself when it comes to the quality of your work. If a

How To Ask Someone To Be Your Mentor

If you’re serious about your career, you’ve probably heard a lot about the value of having a good mentor — someone who can support you and teach you so you can grow in the direction you want. But if y

Recovering From a Professional Setback in Engineering

By Joe Lampinen There can be many reasons you encounter a professional setback over the course of your engineering career. For example, you might have worked on a product that — despite your hard work

Hanging out your Shingle: Going into Business as a Sole Proprietor or Independent Engineering Consultant

By Joseph Lampinen Perhaps you have recently graduated and are deciding between looking for fulltime employment or going into business for yourself as a consulting engineer. Or maybe you have been emp

Selling as an Engineer

By Joseph Lampinen Although a lot of engineers do not like the idea of selling anything, the fact is that as an engineering professional, there are many settings and situations where you need to be pe

Engineering Dissent: How to Disagree in a Professional Setting

By Joseph Lampinen If you work as an engineer, at some point in your career, you will most likely encounter a situation where you respectfully disagree with a peer, supervisor, client, or other stakeh

Updating Your Skills for the Technology Explosion in Science

By Harvey Yau Thanks to the rapid advancements in technology, there’s been exponential growth in the use of technological applications in life sciences. This is particularly true for the genomics spac

Why Having Fun at Work is Important

For a lot of people, “fun” isn’t the first word that springs to mind when they think of work. Yet there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be — especially when you consider the many benefits of fun in the w

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