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How to keep 2020 negativity from destroying your 2021 opportunities

How to keep 2020 negativity from destroying your 2021 opportunities

Can’t wait to ditch 2020? You aren’t alone. But here’s the thing - if you want to do great things in the new year, you’ve got to ditch the 2020 baggage you’re carrying around so that you can not just survive but thrive in the new normal. This short post includes a must-do 15-minute exercise to reset your brain to see your potential, embrace your inner boss, and crush it in 2021.

Business Development Skills for Engineers: 5 Must-Do Activities

Business Development Skills for Engineers: 5 Must-Do Activities

Want to make your engineering career resistant to the uncertainties of the economy? Focus on your business development skillsets. This blog uncovers why engineers resist learning these skills and 5 specific strategies you can use to start the process, even if you only have a few years of technical experience and hate traditional networking.

Four Traits Successful Technical Women Share

Four Traits Successful Technical Women Share

Success leaves clues. Find enough clues, and you can be on your way to your dream job much more quickly than trying to figure it out on your own! In our interviews for the She Engineers 2019 Virtual Summit, we noticed four success traits common to all of our inspirational women interviewees. We’ve wrapped them up for you in this blog!

Turn the Job You Have Into the Job You Want Through Job Crafting

Turn the Job You Have Into the Job You Want Through Job Crafting

How can you take the job you feel “meh” about it and turn it into something more fulfilling? This is the subject of today’s blog, the second in a two-part series that discusses how I created more fulfillment through a process I accidentally stumbled upon called Job Crafting. We teamed with SE Impact to give a webinar on this topic last week, and you can see the full video in this blog, as well as get a worksheet to help you use this process to create your own career happiness.