S2 Ep6 - Promoting Yourself in the Workplace

With a new year come new goals and resolutions.  We are excited to share our latest plans and new ways we hope to help you better engineer your careers going forward! If you like what you hear, remember to share the podcast with others! And remember to sign-up for our emails and newsletters going forward: Email Signup Social Media Links: https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/ Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas.

Think about a person you would do anything for. Why do you feel this way? Well, there’s probably many reasons, but at the top of the list is likely trust. Trust is a complex phenomenon that’s fundamental to our society, but it’s often decided within just seconds of talking to someone. While repeated interactions over time determine our reputation, we sometimes need to build trust quickly, and how we communicate plays a major role in this. Keep listening to learn more about the benefits of trust and the tools that individuals, leaders, and organizations can use to intentionally build trust every day. Remember to leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear! Social Media Links: https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/ Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

We are beyond excited to bring you our third bonus episode of this season with our latest guest, Connson Locke. Connson Locke is a professor at the London School of Economics where she serves as a Program Director and Instructor in their Management department.  Her first book, Making Your Voice Heard, was just published in March 2021, and it’s chock-full of great tips and research-backed insights that are perfectly aligned with our show’s theme of Communication this season.  In this episode, she shares her research on finding your voice, influencing others, communication styles, and so much more! You can learn more from Connson at https://connsonlocke.com/ and find her book, Making Your Voice Heard, on Amazon or anywhere you look for books. As always, please leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear! Social Media Links: https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/ And feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

Let’s talk about you.  Specifically, let’s talk about how you talk about yourself and the work you do.  Uncomfortable yet?  Self-promotion is not a skill we all have, and some who think they have it can come off as self-serving jerks.  But it is important that we let others know of our contributions; after all, if we don’t, who will?  In this episode, we dive into why self-promotion is essential to growing careers and the best ways to go about it. Remember to leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear! Social Media Links:   https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers   https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam   https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/   Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

Today we’re discussing the rare superpower possessed by some of the greatest leaders, companies, and coworkers of all time. While we may spend dozens of hours preparing what to say, we often don’t realize that what we’re being told is just as important. Listening is the entire second half of the communication equation, and so in this episode, we’ll dive into how we can learn to strengthen this capability in our toolbox as well. Keep listening to learn how to unlock new insights, create stronger teams and organizations, and develop better relationships all with the often underrated skill of listening. Remember to leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear!   Social Media Links:  https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers  https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/  Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

For our latest interview, we can't wait to share insights and tips with you all around the employee recruiting process. Matt Chan has over 8 years of experience in Human Resources, with the majority of those years as a recruiter for some of the largest organizations in the world, specializing in IT, financial services, and consulting. We first met Matt at the London School of Economics; in addition to enjoying his friendship and insights, we personally sought out his expertise and opinions throughout our own job searches! He now works in people analytics at a large professional services firm and has a wealth of knowledge regarding what recruiters really want to hear when searching for candidates. In this episode, he shared with us his tips and insights on interviews, resumes, and more.  Enjoy! As always, please leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear! Social Media Links: https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/ And feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

We all know the feeling… sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, and complete and total dread as you stand there like a deer in the highlights with all eyes on you! Yep, you guessed it, today we’re talking about one of people’s highest rated fears-- public speaking! Whether it’s to an audience of 2 or 2,000, public speaking can be intimidating and actually triggers some important psychological responses we need to be aware of to help us control them. Listen in to learn how to master your anxieties and craft your message so you can present with confidence, power and persuasion!  Remember to leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear!  Social Media Links:  https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers  https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/  Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

Have you ever had a presentation fall flat at work? Or watched people’s eyes glaze over as you told them about your recent vacation? Today's episode discusses how to avoid these situations with an often underappreciated part of human psychology-- the power of storytelling. Listen in to learn how to better communicate your ideas at work so that they’re more than just shared, they’re truly understood and remembered. Remember to leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear!  Social Media Links:  https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers  https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/  Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

Today, we are excited to bring you the first of this season’s bonus episodes where we bring on a guest to talk about key communication principles. In this episode, we are excited to speak with Arnold Morales, an experienced engineering career coach and founder of Non-Traditional College Success, a non-profit organization targeted at helping students with non-traditional backgrounds achieve professional success. He’s a specialist in helping early career professionals develop their personal brand, network, and land their dream jobs. With our focus on Communication this season, we thought it would be helpful to zoom in on some of the most critical communications to our careers-- those with recruiters, companies, and in building our networks. We hope you learn as much as we did from the discussion! You can connect with Arnold at https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoldtheengineer/ and learn more about his non-profit at https://linktr.ee/Nontraditional. As always, please leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear!   Social Media Links:   https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers   https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam   https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/   And feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.

It is time to talk about networking! Whether you have enjoyed networking in the past or if the word brings nothing but fear, it is an important aspect of career building for us all.  So what is networking exactly?  And what really matters?  Stay tuned to this episode where we discuss the Why and How of Networking. Remember to leave a review and subscribe if you like what you hear!  Social Media Links:  https://www.twitter.com/CareerEngineers  https://www.facebook.com/CareerEngineeringTeam  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8990751/  Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with your insights and topic ideas. Plus, visit our website https://careerengineeringteam.wordpress.com/ for more information.