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The Engineering Career Choice

photo credit: JoshMcConnell There is a lot of pressure on adolescents to pick a career. One of the careers they could consider is engineering. Even at the tender age of 13 or 14, teachers and parents a lot of times put pressure on children to make up their minds. There is so much emphasis on [...]

Why Engineers Need To Master Social Media

Here is a social media employment success story and why social media is so important for engineers. Many engineers especially older engineers (this includes me) have a “build it and they will come” attitude about their employment. As a result of this, they ignore a critical skill that our new world put upon us — [...]

9 Things to Know About an Employment Contract… Before You

University of Illinois Professor Laura Hollis offers 9 Things every non-lawyer should know before signing an employment contract. Duration : 0:6:38 Technorati Tags: boilerplate, contract, contracts, employment, engineering, engineering-education, for, hire, hollis, iFoundry, Illinois, laura-hollis, law, right, shop, UIUC, work