Engineering Career and Job Hunting Advice for May 2017

Reports on which jobs are seeing the fastest growth in a particular state are to be read with a bit of skepticism because intentional or not, bias and error are always an integral part of the results. Lily Martis, writing for the Monster job website, present just such a survey, and it is worth looking at since it does give a good idea of what types of jobs are in demand overall. It might just be accurate to boot. Evidently electrical and electronics repairers are currently in high demand in Idaho and avionics technicians are needed in Maryland. Engineers must be a dime a dozen because no state lists any form of engineering as the highest growing career field. Graduation time is here now, so there are, as is typical, a plethora of articles offering advice to seniors.

• 5 Ways to Open Your Next Business Presentation - with Flair, by Paul Hellman - a unique approach
• How Headhunters Use LinkedIn to Find Talented Candidates, by Arnie Fertig
• Engineering Dominates Glassdoor's List of the 50 Best U.S. Jobs, by Monica Rozenfeld
• What Are the Fastest-Growing Jobs in Your State?, by Lily Martis
• 4 Truths About Working with Recruiters (That They'll Never Tell You), by Richard Moy
• Job Interview First Impressions: 10 Tips to Take You to the Top, Infogaphic by Armstrong Appointments - interesting because an engineering grad recently asked me for advice for an upcoming interview with Lockheed Martin, and I hit most of these points.
• Recent LinkedIn Changes: How They Effect You and Your Job Search, by Lisa Rangel
• 5 Common Career Mistakes - and What You Can Learn from Them, by Daniel Bortz
• How to (Smoothly) Leave a Job After Only a Couple of Months, by Rachel Bitte
• The 3 Most Difficult Job Interview Questions for Young Professionals, on The Savvy Intern
• Job Hunting Tips for 2017, by Forbes - I didn't link this because the author decided to imbed a video that obnoxiously starts playing automatically. Won't these people ever learn that visitors HATE when that happens?

Posted May 22, 2017