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Carol Metzner

TOP Trends in the Civil Engineering & Architecture Recruiting Marketplace for 2020/2021

September 16, 2020 by Carol Metzner Leave a Comment

Since 2017, much of America has experienced a fairly consistent sense of turmoil. In spite of this, firms in the A/E marketplace view the remainder of 2020 with a guarded sense of optimism. This encouragement is largely due to the anticipation that a federal infrastructure bill will be passed, funding for clean energy projects and… 

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Filed Under: Business Development, Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Companies, Civil Engineering Issues, Civil Engineering Jobs, Corporate Recruiters, Employee Retention, Human Resources, Interviewing, Recruiting, The Workplace Tagged With: Carol Metzner, civil engineering blog, civil engineering firms, civil engineering job search, Civil Engineering Jobs, civil engineering recruiter, Civil Engineering Recruiters, CivilEngineeringCentral.com, hiring trends

Analysis Paralysis & Job Offer Decisions

March 13, 2018 by Carol Metzner Leave a Comment

Have you ever been in a situation where you have analyzed a job offer and still can’t decide whether to accept? You postpone your decision by telling everyone (mostly yourself) that you need to do more analysis. This inability to decide is ultimately a negative decision. If you are choosing to accept an offer or… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Jobs, Education, Interviewing, The Workplace Tagged With: Advice for the Young Engineer, career advancement, career advice, Career Path, Carol Metzner, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Human Resources, Interviewing, Recruiting

What is the ASCE Grand Challenge?

December 8, 2016 by Carol Metzner Leave a Comment

  The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has initiated a “Grand Challenge.” The Grand Challenge asks for a commitment from civil engineers to be innovative in all phases of project planning, design, and implementation. The Grand Challenge’s goal is to reduce infrastructure lifespan costs by 50% by 2025 and to encourage innovation and design for infrastructure sustainability. The ASCE… 

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Issues, Failing US Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Uncategorized, US Infrastructure Tagged With: Carol Metzner, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Jobs, CivilEngineeringCentral.com, Sustainability, US Infrastructure

A/E Leaders Make Changes: Staff Should Take Note!

August 17, 2016 by Carol Metzner 1 Comment

When I began recruiting within the A/E industry in 1986, consulting firms purported the ability for staff to choose between a technical track or a management track. In reality, if you were a competent engineer and personable, then you would be pushed up the management track (whether you wanted to or not). If you weren’t… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Jobs, Human Resources, The Workplace, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carol Metzner, Civil Engineering, civil engineering career development

Does Company Size Matter?

March 28, 2016 by Carol Metzner Leave a Comment

The 2016 job market is in full swing and with it, if you are lucky, comes choices. Seasoned professionals as well as graduate engineers find themselves approached with opportunities. Today’s civil engineering companies are as different as their employees. In your job exploration you need to define the type of employer you will best fit. The… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Companies, Civil Engineering Jobs, Headhunters, Human Resources, Interviewing, The Workplace, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carol Metzner, Civil Engineering Recruiters

Has Your A/E Firm Taken Over Your Identity?

January 27, 2016 by Carol Metzner Leave a Comment

Are you known as a civil engineer, architect, landscape architect and planner OR are you known as an employee of your employer? Recently an outstanding executive engineer was set to interview with my client. This engineer had worked as a leader in his firm for 20 years. At the start of the process, he told… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Companies, Civil Engineering Jobs, Uncategorized Tagged With: a/e firms, Carol Metzner, Civil Engineer, civil engineering marketing

It’s Not About The Title or The Money: Stop Lying To Yourself!

January 19, 2016 by Carol Metzner 1 Comment

If I had a penny for every time a job seeker told me that they would not reject a job offer based upon the title or the money, I could have bought an island years ago!  Stop lying to yourself. Inevitably, 95% of job offer rejections center around money or title. That is acceptable and sometimes even reasonable. However,… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil engineering salaries, Headhunters, Human Resources, Interviewing, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carol Metzner, Civil Engineer, civil engineering headhunter, Interviewing

It’s All About Relationships.

January 7, 2016 by Carol Metzner 1 Comment

Relationship: the state of being connected Engineering projects, project teams, department teams, clients, civil engineering recruiters all have one similar characteristic – RELATIONSHIPS. This includes our relationship with ourselves, our colleagues, our supervisors, our clients, our candidates. We cannot escape this inevitable connection. How we treat others, through our words and more importantly our actions,… 

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Filed Under: Business Development, Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Uncategorized

Professional Registrations – More Than Wall Decorations

December 8, 2015 by Carol Metzner Leave a Comment

For nearly 30 years I’ve been connecting employers and job seekers in the civil engineering industry. Sometimes I have someone who is a great fit for a position but the company does not want to interview the person. Why? Because the individual did not have a particular professional registration/license that the company felt would be… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Companies, Civil Engineering Jobs, Professional Registration, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carol Metzner, civil engineering career development, Civil Engineering Jobs, Professional Engineer, Professional Engineer License, Professional Registration

No Time For Waste(water) In DC!

November 30, 2015 by Carol Metzner Leave a Comment

An earth-moving event is underway in Washington D.C. Only this time it’s not on Capitol Hill. This one is happening approximately 100 feet underground to fix runoff and wastewater problems that have afflicted the District of Columbia since the 1800’s. DC Water is conducting a $2.6 billion project to install 13 miles of new sewer… 

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Companies, Civil Engineering Issues, Contracting, Environmental Engineering issues, Environmental Issues, Failing US Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Sustainable Civil Engineering, Uncategorized, US Infrastructure Tagged With: Carol Metzner, DC waste water, Tunneling

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