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Crafting an Effective Engineering Resume: Key Elements and Best Practices

05 Jun, 2023

Introduction: Your resume is often the first impression you make on potential employers. As an engineer, it's essential to create a resume that effectively showcases your skills, experiences, and qualifications. In this blog post, we will discuss the key elements and best practices for crafting an effective engineering resume that grabs attention and increases your chances of landing your dream job. 1. Choose a Clear and...

How to Optimize Your Engineering Job Search: Proven Strategies and Tips

03 Jun, 2023

Introduction: Searching for engineering jobs can be a challenging and competitive process. However, with the right strategies and tips, you can optimize your job search and increase your chances of landing the perfect engineering opportunity. In this blog post, we'll explore proven strategies and valuable tips that will help you navigate the job market effectively and stand out from the crowd. 1. Refine Your Job Search Criteria:...

Hybrid work now added as job location

10 Nov, 2022

Hybrid work is not only becoming more common, it’s becoming the new standard! Where not so long-ago companies attracted talent with their desirable offices and nice places to work, companies and job seekers are now happy with alternatives. Hybrid work is where companies are happy for their workers to work at home and work at the office. It’s a flexible approach to working where workers can effectively split their time between the...

Engineers and best practice dealing with COVID-19

20 Feb, 2021

Engineers are not immune when it comes to experiencing COVID-19’s impact. PWC reported at the end of March that a range of challenges will be presented to the industry, which could deepen, “…depending on the severity and length of the crisis in the US and globally.” While there has been a clear delineation between what essential (go to work) and non-essential (stay at home) workers should be doing, there remains a question among...

Flexibility in Freelancing

20 Feb, 2021

Do you really achieve flexibility / independence when working as a freelance engineer? That’s the big question, and it’s important because the very reason why you’re choosing your career in the field while working in a freelance capacity is to gain the benefits of flexibility and independence. But there are a couple of considerations you need to keep in mind. First, we need to establish the fact that the concept of ‘flexible working’ is...

Video Conference Call Etiquette

20 Feb, 2021

If you’re still employed, you’re probably having a lot of video conferences right about now. It’s gone from something that happened occasionally to something that has become a daily ritual for a significant percentage of now-housebound office workers. And as this technology and its more frequent use is taking off with – dare we say – viral impact, let’s set some rules or guidelines as to its use. We’re all in this together, so they say, so...

Four tips to help you find work-life balance as an engineering freelancer

20 Feb, 2021

It’s important to create a good work-life balance when you’re working as an engineering freelancer, as it is with any profession. But when your working life has been shaped around you maintaining your hours, your schedule and doing what’s best for you, it’s important that you keep in mind that your work-life balance needs to be maintained. Here are four tips to help you ensure this happens. Set aside time for running your business… while...

Infrastructure Boom: The Changing Landscape

20 Feb, 2021

Australia is in the middle of an infrastructure boom, one that is unprecedented in recent times, and according to experts will continue for the next five to 15 years . The current boom is vastly different from projects of yesteryear, which concentrated on social infrastructure; hospitals, prisons and schools. Infrastructure mega-projects happening now are mainly around transport, mining and energy. Balancing environmental and community...

STEM Education is the Key to the Engineering Space

20 Feb, 2021

In the last few decades the shift to the study electives of business, tourism, hospitality and legal studies meant that enrolments in subjects such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics fell below optimal levels. The growing commercial opportunities of employment in those areas was ample encouragement for school leavers not needing or wanting to go onto university for tertiary studies. Those that did go onto university...

How to prepare your company to work cohesively with freelance engineers

20 Feb, 2021

The business landscape is changing, and it’s changing fast. Tough competition is forcing businesses to cut costs by any means necessary. One way of doing that is to reduce expenses in personnel costs, which has remarkably contributed to the fast rise of the freelance economy. As Australia’s infrastructure is booming, we are starting to notice an increase within freelancing engineers from many sectors; engineering also consists of many other...

How FlexiEngineers addresses the engineering skill shortage

20 Feb, 2021

The transition from resource-based economy to more and more innovative, diverse and technology-based one generates a demand for different kinds of knowledge and capabilities than ever before. The know-how needed in the new economy is substantially based on STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects. However, the rates of secondary students taking up these subjects are alarmingly low. One of the biggest STEM based fields...

Meet a Successful Independent Global Engineering Recruiter & Bike Parts Manufacturer

20 Feb, 2021

We sat down with Khush Jabble, a former successful global engineering headhunter and the founder of KAPZ – a leading custom bicycle parts manufacturing company based in the UK – to talk about the challenges of recruiting engineers for some of the biggest infrastructure jobs, working for yourself as a contractor and changing industries entirely. Engineering is so critical to an organisation’s bottom line, what is the number one thing you...

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