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Your Career: Are You “Training”? Or Are You Merely “Working Out”?

September 18, 2017 by Matt Barcus Leave a Comment

Part 1 of a three-part series   For the better part of my adult life, I have been going to the gym and working out. I’m in good shape, but for many years I have been stuck with this feeling of being comfortable with the results of the effort I was putting in the gym…. 

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Filed Under: Business Development, Career Development, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blog, Civil Engineering Companies, Civil Engineering Issues, Civil Engineering Jobs, Civil Engineering Logos, civil engineering newsletter, Civil Engineering Resumes, Civil engineering salaries, Civil Engineering Shortage, Civil Engineering Trivia, Contracting, Corporate Recruiters, Dealing With Clients, Education, Employee Retention, Energy, Engineering Week, Engineering Week, Environmental Engineering issues, Environmental Issues, Failing US Infrastructure, Federal Programs, Fun Stuff, Generation "Y"/Generation "Next", Global Warming, GPS, Headhunters, High Speed Rail, Highway Engineering, Human Resources, Hurricane Katrina, Infrastructure, Interviewing, Land Sureveying, LEED, Marijuana Use, Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Networking, P3, Politics and the Environmenta, Poll Results, Professional Registration, Project Management, Public Private Partnerships, Recruiting, Resignation, Social Media, Sustainability, Sustainable Civil Engineering, The U.S. Economy & Civil Engineering, The Workplace, Transit, Uncategorized, US Infrastructure, Water, Wind Farms Tagged With: Advice for the Young Engineer, career advancement, career advice, Career Development, Career Path, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineer Jobs, Civil Engineering, civil engineering blogs, Civil Engineering Jobs, Human Resources, Recruiting, Solutions

In Defense of the Land Development Engineer

July 8, 2009 by Matt Barcus 30 Comments

By Matt Barcus President, Precision Executive Search, Inc. Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC, home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com Over the years I have often seen outstanding land development engineers desire to break into a new area of specialization under the civil engineering umbrella, yet they have found the opportunity to do so to be scarce, at best, purely because they have a background in… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Issues, Civil Engineering Jobs, Civil Engineering Resumes, Civil Engineering Shortage, Corporate Recruiters, Interviewing, Recruiting, The U.S. Economy & Civil Engineering, Uncategorized Tagged With: Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Companies, civil engineering firms, Human Resources, Land Development Jobs, Shortage of Civil Engineers, Solutions

Questions Of The Month – Final Tallies Revealed

June 4, 2009 by Matt Barcus 1 Comment

By Matt Barcus President, Precision Executive Search, Inc. Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC, home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com Each month at CivilEngineeringCentral.com we have a Question of the Month.  This question is posted on our home page and is included in each issue of  “The LinkedIngineer” as well as our monthly e-newsletter which is sent out to nearly 10,000 members… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering Issues, Energy, Failing US Infrastructure, Fun Stuff, Human Resources, Interviewing, Poll Results, The U.S. Economy & Civil Engineering, The Workplace, Uncategorized, US Infrastructure Tagged With: Career Path, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineer Jobs, Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Companies, civil engineering firms, Civil Engineering Jobs, CivilEngineeringCentral.com, down market, Failing US Infrastructure, Human Resources, human resources issues, Land Development Jobs, LinkedIn, Networking, Solutions, US Infrastructure

Lessons Learned From An Economy Turned

May 27, 2009 by Matt Barcus 10 Comments

By Matt Barcus President, Precision Executive Search, Inc. Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC, home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com So one of the headlines from CNN.com on Wednesday read “Economists: Recession To End In 2009.”  Reading this article got me to thinking that, now that we are beginning to see a little light at the end of the tunnel, what… 

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Filed Under: Career Development, Civil Engineering Issues, Marketing, The U.S. Economy & Civil Engineering, The Workplace, Uncategorized Tagged With: Career Path, Civil Engineering, civil engineering firms, down market, Marketing, Solutions

Why the Shortage of Civil Engineers?????

February 5, 2008 by Matt Barcus 10 Comments

By Matt Barcus President, Precision Executive Search, Inc. Managing Partner, www.CivilEngineeringCentral.com I was recently interviewed for an upcoming addition of Water & Wastewater Digest Magazine regarding the topic of the shortage of civil engineering professionals in the current market. Take a look at the discussion: Q1. Recent industry surveys show that there is a lack… 

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Filed Under: Civil Engineering Shortage, Uncategorized Tagged With: AICP, ASCE, AWRA, AWWA, Bridge Engineering Jobs, Civil Engineer, Civil Engineer Jobs, Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Jobs, Environmental Engineering Job, Environmental Engineering Jobs, Environmental Jobs, Geotechnical Jobs, Highway Engineering Jobs, Land Development Jobs, Land Planning Jobs, Land Survey Job, Land Surveying Jobs, Landscape Architecture Jobs, Shortage of Civil Engineers, Solutions, Transportation Engineer Job, Transportation Engineering Jobs, Wastewater Jobs, Water Jobs

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