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June 18, 2001
Assessing An Employer's Financial Health
It's not only the dot-coms that are laying off thousands of professionals. Established technology companies such as Lucent, Nortel, and General Electric have also announced layoffs that total in the tens of thousands. Telecom companies have suffered...
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Peter Varhol
April 16, 2001
Take Control Of Your Time On The Job
Maybe you've just come into a new job and the amount of work seems overwhelming, or perhaps your company has experienced an increase in design projects and is reluctant to hire more engineers. Either way, you find yourself with a workload that you...
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Peter Varhol
March 19, 2001
Skills For A Successful Manager
Throughout my career, I've viewed the management ranks as a territory I couldn't quite figure out, and one in which I could never really participate. Although I have held minor management positions, I never felt comfortable in them, and I inevitably...
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Peter Varhol
February 19, 2001
Make Telecommuting Work For You As An Engineer
Over the last several years, a great deal of press has focussed on the advantages and limitations of telecommuting—that is, performing office work while at home. This approach has proven very successful for jobs whose tasks, responsibilities,...
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Peter Varhol
January 22, 2001
Are You A "Great Communicator"?
No, the above title doesn't refer to Ronald Reagan. It doesn't refer to a new and vastly more powerful Internet protocol either. Instead, it refers to your potential as a communicator of ideas, concepts, designs, and implementations. Like most broad...
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Peter Varhol
December 18, 2000
Identify And Manage Work-Related Stress
With complex engineering problems, short deadlines, and not enough people and equipment, the demands placed on engineers today can make any design job highly stressful. For engineers who are used to making and implementing decisions analytically,...
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Peter Varhol
November 20, 2000
Managing Travel And Design Conflicts
Today, many engineers find themselves traveling for business reasons. With an increasing number of business and technology partnerships, conferences, trade shows, and acquisitions, as well as geographically distant development teams, you could find...
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Peter Varhol
October 30, 2000
Managing Conflict In The Workplace
Most people don't enjoy facing the difficult situations that sometimes occur with co-workers in the workplace. Such situations may arise from honest disagreements over design or engineering issues, personnel or benefits matters, management decisions...
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Peter Varhol
October 16, 2000
Should You Go Back To School Or Not?
Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 movie of a successful businessman returning to college to work on his bachelor's degree, illustrated many of the nontraditional reasons for continuing a formal education. Dangerfield's character,...
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Peter Varhol
September 18, 2000
Weighing The Pros And Cons Of Vendor-Specific Certifications
There was a time when professional engineering certification meant something. Every state in the United States has long had education and experience requirements for being licensed as a professional engineer, or PE. Holders of that license were...
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Peter Varhol
August 21, 2000
Knowing When To Leave: Look At Yourself And Your Environment
My father worked for the same company, in the same job, for 31 years. Today, it's becoming unusual for professionals to spend a significant part of their careers with a single company. One reason is because hiring goals have changed. Also, shifting...
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Peter Varhol
July 24, 2000
Mixing Work And Leisure: A Blurring Line
At the end of the workday, some of your fellow engineers head out the door together, perhaps for dinner, drinks, or even a movie. They used to invite you, but you had family activities or night school after work, and repeatedly declined. After all,...
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Peter Varhol
July 10, 2000
Get To Know Yourself, As Well As The Company, Before You Accept That Job Offer
In today's fiercely competitive job market, engineers and other specialists with experience in computers, information technology, the Internet, and telecommunications are in demand. "Techies" are courted and wooed by companies with offers of rich...
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Contributing Author
June 26, 2000
Preparing For Your Performance Review
One of the most difficult nonengineering chores that both managers and employees have to contend with is the job performance-review process. Employees feel at the mercy of the system and their managers, while managers usually don't have time to...
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Peter Varhol
May 29, 2000
Sell Your Ideas To Your Colleagues
Many of us who toil in the trenches have some definite opinions on our product or service, how we perform our jobs, and what we should do differently, now and in the future. Yet, in an existence that appears to strangely mirror Dilbert's, our...
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Peter Varhol
May 15, 2000
Deciding Whether To Take That Promotion
It happens to just about all of us eventually. So you're a mid-career engineer, possibly a project leader. You've been with the company for many years, receiving very good performance reviews and above-average pay raises. You're pretty confident and...
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Peter Varhol
April 17, 2000
Skills That Can Be Key To Job Survival
It's easy to make the argument that a good number of engineers in the early to middle part of their careers must like the companies for which they work. That explains why most of them reach a point of suddenly worrying if their work is excellent...
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Roger Allan
March 20, 2000
Don't Doubt Your Speaking Potential
Are you one of those engineers who dreads giving a public speech or presentation, be it a company talk or a technical paper at a conference? Take heart: Many of us are in the same boat. Yet the art of public speaking need not be all that difficult....
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Roger Allan
January 24, 2000
The Mythic Quest For A Creative Engineering Job Might End In Outsourcing
In an era of faster time-to-market and the tighter, shrinking profit margins created by intense international competition, outsourcing has presented engineers with an unprecedented opportunity to strike out on their own. Companies no longer have the...
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Mike Wilkinson
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