Engineering Career and Job Hunting Advice for January 2017

If one of your New Years' resolutions was to finally, seriously look for a new job, now is the time to start. There is reason to hope that this year will be the beginning of a new era of manufacturing in America, so there should be a wave of openings for manufacturing, test, and quality control engineering specialists. Not that doing the design and R&D work isn't important and exciting, but there is a lot of satisfaction to be had in being part of the system that ships products out the door and into the consumer public. It is a great feeling to know something you had a part in producing is being used by people locally or globally. Lots of advice is available on the Internet, so here are a few I found that look useful.

• How to Talk About Your Soul-Sucking Job While You Look for a Better One, Sara McCord (love that title!)
• Get Your Resume Ready for a Job Search, Lily Martis
• How to Leave Your Job Gracefully, Hallie Crawford
• Creating a Problem-Solving Environment, American Management Association
• What You Can Do to Get Promoted in 2017, Elana Lyn Gross
• 5 Classic Career Rules You'll Be Forced to Break, Alison Cardy
• Resume Trends You Need to Know in 2017, Lisa Rangel
• How to Network Better in 2017, Marcelle Yeager
• France Makes Ignoring Your Boss's After-Hours Email a Legal Right, Lily Martis

Posted January 9, 2017