Welcome to the Engineering community! Members of this community like to tackle complex issues with uniquely sharp abilities to build, analyze, design, and evaluate. Engineers explore new technologies, materials, and systems, and imagine how they can be applied to improve quality of life. Engineering is a technologically driven field where the skills needed are constantly changing. Employers in this field cite critical thinking, mathematics and science, complex problem solving, communication, creativity, collaboration, decision making, active listening, and active learning as being highly important across the many industries and disciplines.
There’s enough to worry about when entering the workforce: What are my responsibilities? Am I capable enough to do this job? Will my manager like me? Corporate jargon shouldn’t add to your stress. From terms like “bandwidth” to acronyms like …
You don’t need to be the great next American novelist to use writing skills. Writing skills apply to nearly every field, even if you’re not working in a creative career.
At work, writing is a hard skill we use to …
Often known as people skills, interpersonal skills are the soft skills you use to interact with others. In the workplace, these skills are essential to being an effective team player and contributing to a positive work environment.
Yet some interpersonal …
The seismic shift during the last two years has turned the labor market on its head. Today, the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics reports nearly 11 million jobs available, with almost two job openings for
every unemployed American. This gap …
Are you a first generation professional? You may belong to this demographic without knowing that there is even a term for it. First generation professionals are those who are the first in their families to enter the professional workforce.
You …
