Speaker: John Twitchell – IEEE-USA Member-at-Large and past Employment and Career Services Committee Chair
Several career resources are available on the IEEE-USA Careers website (check the left hand side "Quick Links" list)
Just to highlight a few
Career Search Tools:
- Employment Navigator
- Salary Survey ~14,000 respondents
– Survey also keeps track of members employment history (used by industry HR departments)
- Careers Strategy Forum
- Social Networking Resources: LinkedIn IEEE-USA group, Facebook IEEE-USA group
- Engineers Guide to Lifelong Employability – E-book, being updated
Career Development ("It's not enough to just look for a job"):
- Webinars – Free to members. Next one is March 14 @ 2 PM (Everything You Want to Know About Product Trademarks, presenter: David Ostfeld)
- Online Training Courses
- Beyond Job Satisfaction by Nigel Bristow - order from IEEECareers. Could use for door prize at PACE meeting.
- CAMIndex – These forms are a good way to keep records for resume building (catalog your patents, presentations etc.)
- Consultants Database – members can add their name and the database is searched by people looking for consultants (> 3000 hits/yr). There is also a webinar series on how to be a consultant (archived on IEEE website - Here's one on Consulting 101)
- Entrepreneur Village – online community to connect entrepreneurs, angel investors and VC
**Everyone should once a year do a Career Checkup
If you want to become involved in IEEE Professional Activities, consider joining one of these committees:
- IEEE-USA Employment & Career Services - Ed Kirchner (Chair)
- IEEE-USA Career Workforce Policy
- IEEE Career Services
- IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Globalization of Professional Activities
- IEEE Member Engagement Life Cycle
NOTE: The slides to this talk are available here.
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ReplyDeleteConsulting material is available at (www.ieeeusa.org/business/consultants). This gives access to the database plus material on how to become a consultant, market yourself, and file for Intellectual Property. This is an extremely valuable networking tool.
Entrepreneurial Activities (www.ieeeusa.org/careers/entrepreneurs) provides access to an online community that provides on-line mentoring, online resources/chats. You can gain access to venture capitalists and others that are willing to help you in your search. For more information you can call Scott Grayson (s.grayson@ieee.org).
What IEEE-USA needs is help in advertising these programs to the greater membership. A discussion then began on why these services are not as highly publicized. Among the reasons are that members are overwhelmed by the amount of information available, people do not think about looking for jobs while they already have one, and people are not aware of new programs as they are released by IEEE-USA.