Engineering Success - The Engineering Career Podcast

Episode 50 of the Engineering Success Podcast

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LinkedIn Lunatics/Career Craziness

⁠⁠1. Some of these people are brain-damaged (External Recruiter Asked for Current Salary)

⁠⁠2. Unhinged Recruiter trying to give me major FOMO

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Engineering College Q's

⁠⁠3. How many credit hours?

⁠⁠4. ???? can he even do this

⁠5. why most men do not like women in engineering roles

⁠Career Advice

6. How do I handle the nervousness on my first day at work out of grad school?

7. I bragged at work and now regret it. How to recover from this?

8. EIT, salary feels way to low

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Episode 49 of the Engineering Success Podcast

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LinkedIn Lunatics/Career Craziness

⁠1. This just happened to my colleague... (Fake Job Interview)

⁠2. Found one in the wild (70 Hour Work Week)

⁠⁠⁠Engineering College Q's

⁠3. Does it really matter what university you go to for engineering?

⁠4. How tf do y'all have any freetime?

5. How do I know if I should switch out of engineering?

6. Take your FE exam while you’re still in school

7. Got kicked from program 4 years in. What do I do

8. Anyone else find calc 3 the more difficult of all the calc classes?

Career Advice

⁠9. Leaving after 6 months

⁠10. What do I do after following up with employers on LinkedIn?

⁠11. I went to my university’s career fair and two recruiters from different companies told me they’d like me to follow up with them and to re-send them my resume. Is this significant at all?

12. Why not Company X?

13. Co-worker only uses speaker phone and expects us to be quiet

14. Would you become an operator for higher pay?

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Episode 48 of the ENGRing Success Podcast

LinkedIn Lunatics/Career Craziness

1. Sorry kids, Gotta hustle

2. Dude sitting across from me at the airport tried to get a chick’s info by asking her to add him on LinkedIn

⁠Engineering College Q's

3. How does everyone do it?

4. I don’t think I want to continue my major (computer engineering)

Career Advice

⁠5. Boss asked (told) me to start traveling out of the blue, is this reasonable for most jobs or am I right to be upset/distraught?

6. Job that rejected me three months ago for asking too high a salary posts another job with the salary range I asked for..

⁠7. How to do you ensure a bad candidate fails an interview?

8. Not sure what I wanna do now

9. My manager is telling me to fake my job title in email signature?

10. Sooo... I and my team, but mostly me, just destroyed a $100k piece of machinery today. CEO of the company wants to have a meeting tomorrow with all of us. What should I expect going into this/what should i do to prepare?

11. Is it weird I still call my mom after work everyday?

12. Is HR trying to tell me to kick rocks?

Episode 47 of the ENGRing Success Podcast

We're BACK IN BUSINESS BABY!

Episode 45 of the ENGRing Success Podcast

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LinkedIn Lunatics/Career Craziness

⁠⁠⁠1. I miss when LinkedIn used to be a boring jobs site

⁠⁠⁠2. Lunatics are trying to take advantage of laid off tech workers

3. Cool story... bro (HE LIKES WHAT!?)

Engineering College Q's

⁠4. Is engineering really difficult everywhere?

5. How much does school involvement matter?

Career Advice

6. New hires (making more than me... again)

⁠⁠⁠7. which fields of study in electrical engineer that are related to construction?

⁠⁠8. Boss ignoring PTO request

⁠⁠9. Do you think a manager should suggest to someone to take vacation if it seems like they're not?

10. My company wants me to sign a year long contract or i have to pay $10,000

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Daniel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Trinity University's B.S. in Engineering Science and currently works in Commercial Management in the Engineering and Construction Consulting Industry.

All views expressed on this podcast are his own and do not reflect the opinions or views of his employer.

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Episode 44 of the ENGRing Success Podcast

This was filmed the morning we went into labor... it's been a week since then that it took me to put the edits together because well... baby.

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LinkedIn Lunatics/Career Craziness

⁠⁠1. Networking? Okay, just DON'T ask me what job I do.

⁠⁠2. Thirst traps

Engineering College Q's

3. Straight A's student struggling in engineering

4. My mom wants to follow me to college

Career Advice

⁠⁠5. Is this salary good as a fresh college grad?

⁠⁠7. It's that time of the year again

⁠8. Bored at internship

⁠9. Should I continue with interviews even though I received a non verbal confirmation?

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You don't want to miss this interview.

Aaron is the host of the Being an Engineer Podcast where they "interview the world’s highest performing engineers to learn their lessons for success so we can apply them to our own lives and careers".

You can find out more about them here: https://teampipeline.us/being-an-engineer-podcast/⁠

He's also the Owner of Pipeline Design & Engineering, where they design and develop custom manufacturing equipment, test fixtures, and industrial automation in all industries, especially the biomedical engineering industry.

You can find out more about them here: https://teampipeline.us/

Carla is an engineer and the founder of Minett Consulting and Engineers to Leaders™. Carla was born in Peru and moved to the US in her late teens. Growing up in an economically polarized country, she realized that the difference between those who radically improved their lives and those who didn’t, was having access to the right resources and opportunities. So embracing the resources available in the US, she found a pathway to success becoming an Engineer and Emerging leader. Today, we'll be discussing Carla's career progression, the lessons she learned along the way, and her consultancy.

Learn more about Carla at https://www.minettconsulting.com/ or read her:

I had a blast interviewing Steph and she quite literally blew my mind when she shared a super insightful fact about LinkedIn!

Steph has an extensive background in career coaching and resume development, and provides those services through her business - Avant Career Services (www.StephGillies.com). She is an expert in helping her clients craft a “Career Story” and land the jobs that they aspire to!  I’m so excited to have her on the podcast to share her experience and give some actionable advice for aspiring and early career engineers out there!

We talk about the importance of, how to develop and how to leverage your personal brand through resume development, social media and during interviews as you advocate for your own career development!

Everything Else

In this episode of the Engineering Success Podcast, we sit down with Tyler Robbins, a senior vibrations engineer with extensive experience in the industry. Tyler shares with us his career journey, from his early beginnings in engineering to his current role at SimuTech Group, an ANSYS certified elite channel partner. He talks about his education, including his double major in Mechanical Engineering and Decision Science, and how his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering has opened doors for him in his career. Tyler also reflects on his different roles in various companies, including his current role as a Senior Test Engineer, and shares insights on how he chose his employers and what he learned from each experience.

THE REDUX