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Archives for April 2020

Why Engineers Should Learn Public Speaking; EVEN IF You Don’t Want To Talk To Groups

April 12, 2020 by SolTheEngineer 5 Comments

How did an undergraduate engineer end up in a public speaking class? “Trust me, it’s an easy A” was all I needed to hear. As all engineers know, if you are going to take a non-technical elective class, it is nice plus for it to be relatively easy in juxtaposition to the brutal engineering classes . . . click to continue reading

Filed Under: Communication skills, General skill improvement

Online applications suck . . . They’re great for the employer, but not for you. Here’s a better approach.

April 2, 2020 by SolTheEngineer Leave a Comment

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Yet, I am baffled by the number of engineers who come to me talking about the 100 or 200 positions to which they applied in order to gain an internship or job.  I even had . . . click to continue reading

Filed Under: Job search, Networking Tagged With: engineering, engineering jobs, Networking, online applications

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