Her Engineering Career Podcast

You've made a plan and followed it. You've  gotten yourself this far in your engineering career. But now things seem so much more complex. It's hard to compete and get to the next level. This episode will teach you how to bring in your superpower and use it to be ready for whatever comes at you in your career.

You have the opportunity to provide input for your performance reviews. More than just reminding your boss of your activities, you should be emphasizing your impact. In this episode you'll learn the difference between actions and impact. And you'll come away with tips for creating effective impact statements that show your value.

Interviewing is so nerve-wracking.  It’s normal to be uneasy about it. You need to bring your best self and showcase your engineering skills. But there's something else you should know. In this episode, learn the secret that will result in a winning interview.

You already have an idea of what your next job will be. And when the time is right, you'll take that next step. But maybe that right time is right now. In this episode you'll realize you're using excuses to hold back. And find good reasons to make your move.

Maybe your future engineering role might be a supervisory one. A great way to prepare for the boss you want to be is to reflect on what you – as an engineer now – consider to be the ideal. This episode will spark some ideas for what makes a good boss. And you can use them to develop yourself into the leader you want to be.

It's a given that your engineering job has built-in stress. And as a woman engineer you may have additional stress from your own expectations. At a certain level, this is all manageable. But too much stress leads to overwhelm. In this episode you'll learn about overwhelm, how to assess it and ways you can alleviate it.

Influential relationships give you an edge in your career. If you lack them you're at a disadvantage. But with a little strategizing you can fix that. This episode provides a framework to create your strategy for cultivating influential relationships in your engineering career.

A significant amount of your influence in your engineering career is determined simply by your thoughts and words. Thoughts and words have energy. They affect your beliefs and actions, and those of others. In this episode learn 3 ways to use them as career tools to build trust, credibility and foundation as an engineer.

If you don't have a lot of confidence it impedes your career progress. And even if you have higher levels of confidence, you’re continuously looking for ways to maintain it. This episode provides more insights on confidence and how to continue building it by exploring 3 areas: speaking up, your inner wisdom, and aspiration.

Professional respect comes not only from your expertise, but from how you communicate it. In this episode, you'll learn how influence and credibility - both personal and technical - come into play.  And you'll come away with some tips and ideas for how to show you're a credible engineer.