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Careers and Grad Ed
Managing your career
in a dynamic environment
Seppo J. Ovaska
R
ight after signing on the
dotted line for your first
full-time engineering job,
you might have a mixture
of diverse feelings, including enthusiasm, happiness, pride,
humility, and/or anxiety. You have
just graduated and worked hard
for years to prepare yourself for
the next stage of your life, and you
are now a professional engineer-
congratulations!
Occasionally, such issues as job retention and advancement may weigh
heavy on your mind. In this article, I
will first describe the dynamic work
environment as well as its opportunities and challenges. This is followed
by a discussion of job retention and
career advancement. The following
commentary reflects my 38-year career as an electrical engineer, first in
industrial research and development
(R&D) and later in academia.
The work environment of engineers
is increasingly dynamic with various uncertainties. These dynamics
are related to the following factors.
1) Novel innovations and associated
product or service concepts may
create foundations for new technica l disciplines w it h high
demand, such as cybersecurity
that will have a critical role with
the success of the Internet of
Everything (IoE).
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Dynamic work environment
2) Major segments of high-tech industry may disappear unexpectedly.
For example, the technological evolution had dramatic consequences
for Nokia Corporation, the leading
manufacturer of cell phones prior
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to the touch-screen smartphone
era; their layoffs left thousands of
engineers unemployed.
3) Globalization has speeded up the
founding of new-and the expansion of existing-international
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