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    Successfully Managing Your Engineering Career: No Nonsence Manuals, #5
    Successfully Managing Your Engineering Career: No Nonsence Manuals, #5
    Successfully Managing Your Engineering Career: No Nonsence Manuals, #5
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    Successfully Managing Your Engineering Career: No Nonsence Manuals, #5

    By Mark Lynch

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    As an engineer, have you ever thought you should be getting paid more for what you know and do? Do you feel you should be making more headway with your career than you have? Perhaps you feel your career has plateaued?

    Maybe you've wondered how others seem to have made greater and quicker progress. Alternatively, have you wanted to get organised and get on for a while now, but never seem to have enough time (or motivation, if you're honest)?

    Do any of these points resonate in some way with you? OK, well don't you owe it to yourself to be proactive and take control of your career? This targeted, powerful guide helps you to rapidly develop yourself as an engineer or technical professional. Identify, plan, then go out and get the skills and knowledge you require to be as competive and employable as possible.

    Get the most interesting, the most rewarding and the best paid job you can - either at your current place or elsewhere. Position yourself to take the next opportunity you get to advance your career.

    Additionally, this information is ideal for planning and improving employee skill levels for teams in small-to-medium sized manufacturing businesses. Beat the skills shortage currently holding employers back, by linking skills gaps and employee development in a clever, straightforward plan.

    Identify the talent necessary for better business performance, improved productivity and enhanced profitability. Crucially, retain your best staff by offering them a rich range of options. Contents include:

    Where are you now? - How to quickly set career goals and work towards objectives; How to get organised and get on - stop procrastinating! Professional development in your current role; Preparing for the future - industry and markets; Vocational training and apprenticeships; Qualifications advice; Professional engineering institutions; Engineering publications and media; Career planning and skills identification system for small manufacturers.

    Successfully Managing Your Engineering Career works by matching your aspirations to the skills manufacturing industry so desprately needs. It's a no-nonsense manual written for practical application for engineers eager to get on and take their careers to the next level.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Lynch
    Release dateAug 18, 2014
    ISBN9781502291370
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      Successfully Managing Your Engineering Career - Mark Lynch

      1. Introduction

      Welcome to Successfully Managing your Engineering Career - the guide dedicated to accelerating your professional development, as well as maximizing your potential at work. The information here is designed to increase employee skill levels for the individual, the team and for the business. Specific advantages for you personally are covered in a moment. But for small manufacturers, the benefits include improved business performance, better productivity and enhanced profitability.

      Make a step-change in your career, rather than being content. Get organised and get the benefits and satisfaction you deserve.

      We’ve put together this powerful, targeted information pack to enable you to identify and genuinely improve skill levels for both yourself and your colleagues. This section is packed with practical ways of improving your employability and ultimately enabling you to be more successful in your career, as well as earn more. Everything you need to know about skills and professional development, all in one place.

      Familiar Career Concerns

      Have you ever thought that you should be getting paid more for what you know and do? Do you feel like you should be making more career progress than you have? Perhaps you feel your career has plateaued? Do you wonder how others seem to make greater and quicker progress? Have you wanted to get organised and get on for a while now, but just never seen to have enough time (or motivation, if you’re honest)?

      Or maybe you’re looking for a change or for an opportunity to progress? Whatever your situation, you will want to give yourself the best chance to keep your job or get another one. Money isn’t the whole story, but it’s fairly important. Why not put yourself in a position to earn more, or at least give yourself options?

      Alternatively, are your concerns more about raising the skills of your staff on a tiny budget, whilst motivating them to raise their performance? Skills shortages across manufacturing have been reported as being near critical.

      Well, in this section you’ll find all you need to actually do something about it and reap the benefits. Right, first things first…..

      2. Career Management – The Key Facts

      This section demonstrates how to achieve considerable career success and fulfilment by structuring and planning your career development. Planning and managing your career enables you to gain satisfaction and hopefully enjoyment from it. It is no coincidence that the most flourishing and lucrative careers are to some extent structured, with some degree of planning. They also feature an element of flexibility, enabling individuals to take advantage of opportunities as and when they arise. Just for the record, when talking about a career structure it may be quite loose with the emphasis on ensuring you know your broad subject area and direction; whilst at the same time being ready to spot and seize chances, should they present themselves.

      An organized and structured career plan for those in manufacturing industry can deliver significant benefits. This is in contrast to those whose careers tend to drift, or are risk-averse. The latter are more likely not to see or take opportunities to progress. It is clearly important that engineering professionals continually increase their technical knowledge in their field, as well as remain up to date with ever changing technologies, ideas and concepts. Bearing this in mind, the same applies on a larger scale for project teams, whole departments and indeed businesses, if they are to remain competitive and exploit technologies for commercial gain. Therefore, individuals and companies should strive to update their skills. Structured professional development is a mechanism that enables this to take place. Plainly, it makes commercial sense to employ the best trained and most knowledgeable staff.

      Below are some key facts and practical information you should consider when proactively managing your own career. General themes include:

      • Where Are You Now? – Time to Reflect

      • Setting Career Goals and Objectives

      • Preparing for the Future – Industry and Markets

      • Professional Development in Your Current Role

      • Market Yourself – Personal Branding

      • Work-Life Balance and Job Satisfaction

      • Get Organised

      • Life-Long Learning

      Two additional useful sections are also included, these are:

      • Improving Your Personal Profile

      • Self-Improvement in the Work Place

      Where Are You Now? – Time to Reflect

      Spend some time thinking about your current role and those you’ve held in the past.

      • What are your key achievements?

      • What do you enjoy doing?

      • Are you working towards something now?

      • Want do you want to be good at?

      • Can you name your 3 greatest strengths? Your achievements may be technical, related to projects or corporate.

      • Are they transferable and valued by employers?

      • What are you weaknesses and what have you done about them?

      • Salary-wise, where do you stand?

      Why not open up an MS Word file and quickly jot down the answers to these questions – go on, give it a go.

      Setting Career Goals and Objectives

      Take some time and think carefully about what you would like to achieve. Consider drafting a 3, 5 and 10 year plan. Include more detail for 3 years, less for 5 years and least for 10 years. Bullet points will do. At this stage it’s about getting some key points down on paper.

      • What corporate level are you aiming to achieve for each time period?

      • Do you want to start your own business or work as a contractor or consultant?

      • What key skills and salary levels are you aiming for?

      • What industry sectors do you wish to work in and why?

      • What software or systems do you need to familiarise yourself with?

      • Have you considered additional qualifications and professional registration?

      This should provide you with a basic set of career goals.

      Undertake some research to obtain answers. Keep yourself informed and flesh out your plan. Look online (try technical recruitment agencies) at the range and type of jobs that exist in the areas of interest to you. Look at the nature of the roles, the skills and experiences they request. Note the salary levels for technical and managerial roles. Discuss options with experienced colleagues and contacts to see what’s possible and what is likely to best suit you.

      Once you have a set of career goals. You will need objectives – stepping stones – to help you achieve your goals. What can you achieve this year? What skills and experiences can you obtain that work towards your wider goals? Aim for these to be transferable, so they increase your general employability.

      Looking to your longer term plan, your objectives may be a series of positions, each at a higher corporate level. These objectives may take the form a career path, where your skills, level of responsibility and expertise increase from job to job. It is important to realise this clearly isn’t set in stone. Instead, it serves as a way of focusing your concentration and efforts, so you work constructively towards your career goals, rather than drifting.

      When drafting your goals and objectives, stretch yourself. Go for achievements that are naturally challenging. Whereas they need to be achievable, aim for accomplishments that are demanding, whilst giving you real satisfaction. Set objectives that are not in your current comfort zone. The level of urgency and drive will depend on where you are in your career

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