The following is a summary of Episode 87 of our podcast, The Engineering Career Coach (TECC) Podcast. You can also listen to the show through the player below, the website, or by subscribing on iTunes.
Key points in this episode include:
- The job that you are hired for today is not going to be the same job that you’re going to be asked to do in two years.
- Unless you communicate your reinvention to other people, they are going to keep thinking of you in that same way as when they first formed opinion about you.
- Take control of your professional reputation so people can see what you can contribute now and not five years in the past.
- Keep up with a regular regimen of pushing yourself to learn and grow and experience new things.
- Start to build your network early on.
- Success is up to you and not up to your boss.
- Have a mentor board of directors – a group of people you can turn to for advice and insights.
- Mastermind groups are a very powerful tool. It can be formal or informal groups or even online communities that are like an on demand support you need.
- Knowing who we consciously want or choose to spend more time with, that is a very powerful decision that can alter who we are and who we become.
- And many more…
About our guest:
Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), which has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, and Thai. Her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It. More about Dorie at http://www.dorieclark.com.
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Anthony Fasano, PE, author of Engineer Your Own Success, found success as an engineer at a very early age and now writes and podcasts to help other engineers do the same. Visit Anthony’s website at EngineeringCareerCoach.com to access all of the free engineering career resources he has created to help engineers succeed.