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Is your engineering firm too specialized to need a website?
Babette Ten Haken Sales Aerobics for Engineers Internet Business Development Strategies for Manufacturers, Distributors and Service Companies www.salesaerobicsforengineers.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/babetteburdick http://blog.salesaerobicsforengineers.com Featured Guest Blogger: Babette Burdick Ten Haken Sales Aerobics for Engineers Internet Business Development Strategies for Manufacturers, Distributors and Service Companies Connect With Babette On Linkedin Read The Sales Aerobics For... |
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Engineers: Are We Too Technical to Manage?
Featured Guest Blogger: Anthony Fasano, P.E., CPC, LEED AP Founder & CEO, Powerful Purpose Associates – New Website! Civil Engineer and Professional Career & Leadership Development Coach Click to Connect With Anthony on Linkedin and Facebook Anthony is the author of a FREE service for engineers called A Daily Boost from Your Professional Partner. Click here to read about this service. Being a licensed engineer as well as a career development coach, I get the opportunity to... |
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2nd Annual “Best Civil Engineering Firm Logo” Contest
THE BEST LOGO’S ARE WORTH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS…OR RECOGNITION FROM CIVILENGINEERINGCENTRAL.COM! WE ARE EXCITED TO BRING TO YOU THE 2nd ANNUAL THE GIST All nominated logos (tag lines should be included if you have one) must be from civil engineering firms who operate within the United States. If the logo has a story behind it, we would like to know about it. Logo nominations can be submitted via: EMAIL: info@CivilEngineeringCentral.com DIRECT TWEET: http://twitter.com/civilengineers LINKEDIN:... |
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Is Your Website Your Business Development Partner?
Babette Ten Haken Sales Aerobics for Engineers Internet Business Development Strategies for Manufacturers, Distributors and Service Companies www.salesaerobicsforengineers.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/babetteburdick http://blog.salesaerobicsforengineers.com Featured Guest Blogger: Babette Burdick Ten Haken Sales Aerobics for Engineers Internet Business Development Strategies for Manufacturers, Distributors and Service Companies Connect With Babette On Linkedin Read The Sales Aerobics For... |
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Are You “Settling” In Your Career?
Featured Guest Blogger: Anthony Fasano, P.E., CPC, LEED AP Founder & CEO, Powerful Purpose Associates – New Website! Civil Engineer and Professional Career & Leadership Development Coach Click to Connect With Anthony on Linkedin and Facebook Anthony is the author of a FREE service for engineers called A Daily Boost from Your Professional Partner. Click here to read about this service. I would like to make an argument that way too many people settle for less than they deserve... |
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A/E Firms: Social Media Guidelines & Online Identity Theft
By Carol A. Metzner President, The Metzner Group, LLC and Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com Ryan Link, AICP, wrote a smart article for the CivilEngineeringCentral.com summer issue. In his article: Social Networking Isn’t Just for Fun Anymore: How Emerging Media Is Changing The Way We Market and Do Business, Ryan offers interesting insights into the A/E industry’s past and future relationship with social networking. Please read and offer your... |
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How are you providing value to your clients and your employer?
Babette Burdick Sales Aerobics for Engineers Internet Business Development Strategies for Manufacturers, Distributors and Service Companies www.salesaerobicsforengineers.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/babetteburdick http://blog.salesaerobicsforengineers.com Featured Guest Blogger: Babette Burdick Ten Haken Sales Aerobics for Engineers Internet Business Development Strategies for Manufacturers, Distributors and Service Companies Connect With Babette On Linkedin Read The Sales Aerobics For... |
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How to Prevent Infrastructure Disaster?
By Carol A. Metzner President, The Metzner Group, LLC and Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com This August will be the 3rd anniversary of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis and the 5th anniversary of the New Orleans levee system failure. July brings with it the 19th year mark of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. While we now understand how these events occurred, has the civil engineering industry implemented systems to help prevent future... |
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Civil Engineering “Cash Cab”
By Carol A. Metzner President, The Metzner Group, LLC and Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com One of my favorite television viewing pleasures is Discovery Channel’s CASH CAB. Host Ben Bailey asks passengers in a New York taxi to answer trivia questions on their way to their destination. Those passengers have a chance to win money for each correct answer. Sorry, we won’t be offering cash rewards to our readers BUT do take a break and try to answer... |
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The Ramifications of Ousting the Senior Engineer
By Carol A. Metzner President, The Metzner Group, LLC and Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com As discussed in a previous blog, civil engineering firms are cutting senior staff in favor of hiring less experienced, less expensive technologically savvy engineers. The blog received a variety of comments. Among them was insightful feedback from Principal Civil Engineer Mike Prett, PE. With permission, his comments are reprinted here: The deeper I get into this... |
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Civil Engineering Salary Cuts and Layoffs Continue
By Carol A. Metzner President, The Metzner Group, LLC and Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com Last year an executive at a national civil engineering firm was overheard saying that staff who held the company “hostage” by demanding high salaries and outrageous benefits were now getting a cold reality. They would either accept pay and benefit cuts or would be welcome to leave. After all, they could be replaced by other talented civil engineers who... |
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Stalking the Recruiter
By Carol A. Metzner President, The Metzner Group, LLC and Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com One corporate recruiter on Linkedin had as her status update “..be careful not to stalk the corporate recruiter, but do follow-up.” Numerous discussions are taking place online scolding recruiters and employers for lack of follow-up with candidates. But, how do you as a candidate stay on the right side of the fine line that divides assertive job seeker... |
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Civil Engineers Do Great Things, Whether People Realize it or Not!
Featured Guest Blogger: Anthony Fasano, P.E., CPC, LEED AP Maser Consulting Associate Civil Engineer and Professional Career & Leadership Development Coach Click to Connect With Anthony on Linkedin and Facebook Anthony is the author of a FREE service for engineers called A Daily Boost from Your Professional Partner. Click here to read about this service. We as engineers absolutely do great things! I’ll speak specifically about civil engineers in this post because that is my background.... |