Engineering Career and Job Hunting Advice for March 2017

The vast majority of advice columns on job searches recommend strategies to job seekers while participating in an interview; however, "Choosing an Interview Style and Format," by Will Zimmerman of CareerCast, covers the other side of the interview. His article discusses ways you as an interviewer might consider to most effective tactic for grilling your unsuspecting interviewee. Other pieces address job hunters and those looking to get ahead in current positions. I try to weed out the ones written by people who do nothing but give regurgitated advice to others without actually having much experience themselves (author names get familiar after years of searching for this stuff). Having held many positions over my career, I have been subject to many different interview styles ranging from being deluged with system and circuit questions to being asked mostly about personal and behavioral characteristics.

• How to Negotiate Salary in Engineering Job Interviews, Nader Mowlaee
• Key Phrases to Use When You Talk to Your Boss, Alison Green
• Choosing an Interview Style and Format, Will Zimmerman
• The 4 Best Reasons to Leave Your Job -- and the 1 Worst, David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom
• How to Get Your Resume Ready for a Job Search, Lily Martis
• Here's What "You're Interviewing Them as Much as They're Interviewing You" Actually Means, Sara McCord
• How Engineers Can Market Themselves to Get a Job, Trevor English
• Managing Your Online Reputation When Job Searching, Arnie Fertig
• How To Guide Difficult Employees Toward Change, American Management Association Staff
• Things Everyone Who Gets Recruited Has in Common, Jenny Foss

Posted March 21, 2017