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👩🏽🔬 Big science, career course correction, 10+1 problem solving, hot jobs
👩🏽🔬 Big science, career course correction, 10+1 problem solving, hot jobs
⚡️ Smashing particles together at near the speed of light? Sounds cool, and it’s exactly what happens at the Large Hadron Collider.
The LHC is one of the most complex engineering projects ever undertaken. The planning for the project started in 1984, it took 24 years to make and 10 billion Euros.
In the end, it’s a 27-kilometer ring that has helped to advance some important areas in science. One of the most important, scientists believe, was the discovery of the Higgs Boson. It’s hard to explain, but its existence basically helps us understand how particles have mass.
💡 The LHC is planned to keep running experiments through at least 2035—what else do you think will be discovered?
👀 In today’s newsletter:
What to change in your job search
Going step by step to solve engineering problems
🔥💵 Hot Job – Principal Data Engineer
Career tips
📈 4 Things to Stop and Start Doing in Your Engineering Job Search
If you are urgently looking for a new job opportunity for any reason—you are graduating from school, are unemployed, or feeling completely unfulfilled in your current role—the last thing you want to do is waste a bunch of time doing the wrong things.
🛑 Here are some things to STOP doing right away:
Simply applying for jobs and waiting to hear back
Wasting hours of your time scanning online job boards
Spending time adjusting your resume again in an effort to improve results from the items above
Send generic messages to recruiters telling them you want a job!
These actions will result in few wins, and will mostly end up with a lot of time gone and minimal progress made.
If you can instead focus on actions that will move the needle towards your desired objective, you'll be surprised by the change in results you get.
❇️ Here are some more effective ideas for you to START doing:
Identify companies you want to work for and people who work there now
Reach out to these people to learn more about them - not just asking them how to get hired
Ask for informational interviews to build relationships with them
Focus your communication on them – learn about industry trends, their career experiences, and more.
👥 Here’s the lesson—resumes and job boards don’t hire people. People hire people. Go reach out and connect with people who might want to help you get hired, instead of only throwing your applications into the black hole of job boards.
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book recommendation
10+1 Steps to Problem Solving: An Engineers Guide From A Career in Operational Technology and Control Systems by Andrew Sario
This book is full of real stories of engineers solving big problems, and will help sharpen your approach to problem solving too!
✍🏽 Here's the 10+1 Problem Solving formula:
The Question
The Obvious
Eyes
Check Yourself
Doctor G
The RTFM Protocol
Strip
What about the environment?
Phone-A-Friend
Pray
👀 The last step? - That's the secret step. You can only use it once understanding the first ten steps!
You’ll want to read the book to find out what it is!
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Jeff Perry
Engineering Career Coach
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