Her Engineering Career Podcast

Broadening experiences can give a boost to your engineering career when you're between promotions, unsure where to go next, or otherwise not moving forward. They enable you to learn, build risk tolerance, and expand your network. In this episode you'll learn why you need broadening experiences and why they're beneficial. And you'll get some good ideas to consider for broadening your own career.

Taking a new job is probably one of the hardest parts of your engineering career. It's an angsty time when you face new responsibilities and meet new people. You just want to settle in and start having a positive impact as soon as possible. This episode is designed to help you through that transition. It includes simple ways to ease you into your new environment so you can get started on your new job a little more quickly and comfortably.

In many ways you, as a woman engineer, are excluded in the workplace. This has a negative effect on your impact and your level of career fulfillment. This episode explains some ways that you may be contributing to your own exclusion. And it further provides some insights for being included - for becoming an insider - so that you'll feel empowered to make that transformation.  

Your engineering work is important and is having an impact. And it's important that you get the word out about it. This episode provides insights on how to craft that message and communicate it. In particular you'll learn how to address the challenges of speech patterns and confidence in delivery.

In today’s episode I encourage you to take a break. Resting your brain has more benefits than pushing it when it’s tired. Taking time out to destress and recharge will enable you to be more effective than if you just push through. Learn some useful destressing remedies. And take away some guidance on recharging during your engineering work day.

This episode covers what it means to have risk tolerance and how to increase it in your career.  It refers to the risks you take in getting ahead, reaching your goals and realizing your vision.  Learn to focus on risk taking activities and strategize higher professional risk tolerance that will benefit you as you move into leadership roles and take on more responsibilities.

This episode is in the spirit of taking charge of your career and doing what's best for you. One big step you can take now is to own 3 aspects that have a significant impact on your dream career. Learn how to own your vision, your workload, and your calendar for less stress, more freedom, and a clearer path to the engineer and leader you always wanted to be.

Giving strategic compliments is one simple thing that both men and women can do at work to have a significant positive impact. In this episode learn about the benefits of strategic compliments for women engineers and take away some helpful tips on how to give them.

This episode is about new year resolutions as a useful tool in your engineering career. To get where you want to go and make the impact you want to make you must first dream it. Setting resolutions enables you to imagine your world the way you want it to be and define the steps to get there.  Learn 8 insights for tailoring your resolutions for career success.

Your boss can have a significant impact on your engineering career. It only makes sense to help them serve you better. This episode offers 3 easy ways to help your boss help you. They don't require much on your part. And the payoff is worth it.