03 May What Tom Brady Teaches us About Age Discrimination
In February of 2021 Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl title...
civil engineer Tag
02 Nov 7 Myths That May Be Holding Back Your Civil Engineering Career
I'm of the philosophy that you can't time the stock market. If you sit on the sideline waiting for the perfect time to get in, you will undoubtedly lose that fight, and opportunity after opportunity will pass you by. This same reasoning, I believe, applies to...
17 Aug PERSEVERE
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." ~Newt Gingrich đź“ŚTo my fellow #recruiters with much smaller work loads than normal: be laser focused in your recruiting efforts and be grateful for the searches you do have,...
27 Aug “Curb Appeal” & Recruiting
Is the "curb appeal" of corporate website hindering your recruitment of talented civil engineering professionals? In the real estate world, "curb appeal" is critically important...
03 Jun Establishing a New Corporate Identity
I have been recruiting in the civil engineering profession for over 22 years. Over the course of those two decades, as you can imagine, I have worked with a number of really. bad. clients. I can deal with chasing down invoices, chasing down feedback, and...
03 Jun Knowing Your Weaknesses
Last year, in Texas, it took a civil engineer with 20 years of experience in land development engineering four months to find a job. You read that correctly. Four months. In Texas. For a land development Project Manager to find a job. After working with the candidate for...
13 Dec Complacency Kills
Complacency kills. With so many opportunities in this wonderful world we live in, failing to break out of your comfort zone means that you will let many opportunities pass you by. Don't let a little fear keep you from calling on a potential new client, advocating for...
02 Dec Short staffed? Maybe you are short sighted?
It takes no genius to see that the civil engineering profession is booming. I mean step outside and take a look around, what do you see? New single-family and mulit-family residential developments sprouting up everywhere. Major infrastructure and capitol improvements programs taking place. Airports and universities across the...
02 Dec Are your Mondays brutal?
If your Mondays are brutal...
16 May Preparation While Waiting in the Wings
What can you learn from Philadelphia 76er guard TJ McConnell and Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Nick Foles about aggressive patience? The ability to be “aggressively patient” while you wait in the wings for your next opportunity, either internally or externally, is so important. This week’s “Wednesday Wisdom”...