When I decided to branch out on my own as a #civilengineering search consultant nearly 25 years ago, I jumped in with both feet, shut the door, and locked it shut. 🚪I could have had one foot in the door while working a side hustle. 🚪I could have had...
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with an EIT who has just over two years of experience under his belt. As many of you can relate, this is what his first two years of experience as a civil engineer looked like: 📅 September 2019-March 2020: Fulltime...
🚫🔌🚫🔌 MAKE SURE TO UNPLUG 🚫🔌🚫🔌 Last week I ran a poll amongst the #civilengineering community as the topic of 🔥🔥#burnout🔥🔥 has been a heated one as of late. Of the nearly 500 poll participants: ⏲15% indicated they worked 50-55 hours per week⏲24% were working 55+ hours per week As a...
This three minute video is a drone tour of the amazing Dallas Cowboys facility in #FriscoTx. The 91 acre campus houses not only the full Dallas Cowboy training facility, but also an indoor stadium that hosts high school football games, a boutique shopping center, and a luxury hotel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO-jS5YYqeY This pains...
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A few months ago I reached out to a candidate for a civil engineering role I was looking to fill in Texas. She was young, passionate about her career, but she was in the process of looking to buy her first home, and she was...
In February of 2021 Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl title...
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...
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." ~Newt Gingrich 📌To 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,...
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...