Successful Unemployment

Announcing the Lucky Winners of the Successful Unemployment Toolkit!

The winners will receive an e-mail from me with instructions on downloading the toolkit in the .zip file.  They can start listening to the mp3 tracks and reading the Reference Guide today, and can begin to Increase their Professional value by the end of the day!

If you are one of the 5 Winners listed at the end of this post, here is what you will receive as part of your Toolkit:

1. An mp3 recording of my seminar Successful Unemployment—10 Steps You Need to Take NOW to Increase Your Professional Value

During this seminar, I will give you 10 specific action itemsthat you can start implementing immediately. These steps are guarantied to:

• Get the skills that set you apart from the rest of the job seekers in your field
• Greatly increase your interviewing skills
• Help dramatically improve your resume
• Increase your opportunities for professional development
• Provide many more opportunities for employment

2. Successful Unemployment Reference Guide (pdf format)

• Includes over 25 websites and references
• These are URLs of organizations that you NEED to know about and become a part off, in order to grow professionally.
• Publications referenced in this guide will give additional information on ways to increase your professional development in a technical field as well as help inspire and motivate you.

If you did not win this time, you can still begin to develop yourself as a science, engineering or technology professional by purchasing the toolkit here:  http://successfulunemploymenttoolkit.com/wpmain/order-now/

And Now for the WINNERS:

1) Fa-Gung Fan

2) Suleiman Oloriegbe

3) Fulufhelo Masithulela

4) Karna Barquist

5) Waldemir Queiroz

If your name is on this list, you are a subscriber to this blog AND have connected with me via Linkedin OR Twitter. Within the next few hours you will be receiving a download link from me. Congrats to all of the winners!

Hi Guys,

Hope everyone’s job search/ professional improvement is moving along!

The download option for the Toolkit has been a hit! No need to wait for it to arrive in the mail – now you can download the audio MP3 tracks and the pdf Guide, right to your desktop!

This week I have been asked to write a guest post on Sales Aerobics For Engineers (http://blog.salesaerobicsforengineers.com/).

I am frequently asked where I received my education and training that helped me launch a successful business and understand sales/marketing and customer relations. On this post I answer the following questions:

-How well equipped were you, as a PhD engineer, to undertake a business development role in past companies you worked for as well as your current consulting company?

-As an undergraduate, how many courses did you take that cross-trained you to speak the language of business, as well as engineering?

-As a graduate student, were you encouraged to take marketing, sales or economics courses as well as grad engineering courses?

-What is the biggest disconnect, then, in terms of undergraduate engineers coming out of school and entering the workforce? Is this disconnect different after receiving a graduate degree? Why or why not?

-Should the structure of engineering education be amended in the future to create more engineers who are capable of assuming business development functions in today’s global economy?

-What advice would you give undergraduate engineering students in terms of preparing their skillset for a successful entry into the workforce?

(If you can’t read the embedded article below,  take a look at this site:

http://blog.salesaerobicsforengineers.com/2010/02/what-they-didnt-teach-you-in-engineering-school.html)

This article is a must-read for everyone hoping to advance their career. I recently wrote it for www.Simple-Talk.com, an on-line magazine for System Administrators and Programming professionals.

If you can’t see the article here, simply visit this link:
http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/general/the-art-of-dealing-with-people/