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What one piece of advice do you wish you had known at the start of your career?

Kathryn Bain

Reposted from IET Professional Development



I'm currently working on a blog around starting out in careers in engineering - it got me thinking about the lessons learned from others (perhaps because I spend a lot of my time working with our volunteer mentors).


What one piece of advice do you wish you had known at the start of your career that you know now?


Or, if you're starting out in your career right now, what is the one thing you want to learn more about (and hopefully have planned as part of your CPD)?


Please share your experiences or advice below:


Kathryn Bain, IPD and Mentoring Service Manager, The Institution of Engineering & Technology, (IET Staff)

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    I wonder if the universities are capable of teaching the
    necessary skills, perhaps what is really needed is the right state
    of mind?


    Often people who start their own businesses are the children of the
    self-employed or people in business, they know it can be done from
    personal experience, not theory from a professor.


    Universities push the idea of big business unconsciously,
    electricity is generated by the giga watt, chemicals made by the
    kilo tonne etc, way out of the league of the small business. Yet
    kilo watt generators have a market and certainly in the USA there
    are niche (legal!) chemical companies that are very small
    scale.


    The IET TV episode on the making of the 'trunki' should be made
    available to all our universities!

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    I wonder if the universities are capable of teaching the
    necessary skills, perhaps what is really needed is the right state
    of mind?


    Often people who start their own businesses are the children of the
    self-employed or people in business, they know it can be done from
    personal experience, not theory from a professor.


    Universities push the idea of big business unconsciously,
    electricity is generated by the giga watt, chemicals made by the
    kilo tonne etc, way out of the league of the small business. Yet
    kilo watt generators have a market and certainly in the USA there
    are niche (legal!) chemical companies that are very small
    scale.


    The IET TV episode on the making of the 'trunki' should be made
    available to all our universities!

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