Episode Transcript
Are you on track in your engineering career?
Given all the items on your calendar and your to-do list it’ll be helpful for you to have an easy way to check in.
So you can answer this question for yourself.
You’re immersed in your engineering job and busy with work and life. I know it’s hard to stop.
To take a step back and evaluate.
But I encourage you to consider your career at this moment and determine what your next steps should be.
And I have the perfect tool to help you make it easy.
Why You Need to Stop and SPOT Check Your Engineering Career
It’s a SPOT Check tool. And you need it to get the most out of your engineering career.
I mean salary and advancement, yes. But also satisfaction and fulfillment.
You need it to give you a chance to assess and see if it’s time for a move.
For a pivot or a leap forward.
You need it to make sure you still love your work.
To make sure you’re happy with your workload and life balance.
And getting opportunities to make your contribution.
And really you need it every year or so to observe what you’re doing.
Where you are.
Where you’re headed.
And how you feel about it all.
What Is an Engineering Career SPOT Check?
A SPOT Check is a way of checking in with yourself and your engineering career.
SPOT stands for:
- Situation,
- Potential,
- Orientation, and
- Trajectory.
These are the 4 things you want to address in your SPOT check.
For example, you want to find out:
- What’s your current situation?
- What’s your potential overall? And how can you leverage that?
- What’s your orientation? And are you positioned for what you want?
- How far have you moved along your trajectory? And are you moving at a good pace?
While this is something you can attempt on your own, I recommend working a SPOT Check with me to get best results.
Because then you get a 3rd party perspective.
It’ll be a deeper dive into key aspects of your career. Including a one-on-one session with me.
And you’ll get a documented recap of the SPOT Check. With unbiased feedback and strategic recommendations.
Which will set you apart from others in your cohort.
To learn more, contact me through LinkedIn or at HerEngineeringCareer.com/contact, using the keywork SPOTCheck.
Benefits of Your Engineering Career SPOT Check
Even if you don’t have a solid vision or plan for your engineering career at this point, you’ll benefit from a SPOT Check.
It helps move you farther and faster toward your goals.
It minimizes the time you spend working in jobs that don’t align with you.
It focuses you more on the contribution you want to make, or on determining what that is.
It helps you avoid roadblocks and keeps you from getting in your own way.
And it clarifies what you want in your engineering career. So you can garner the resources to pursue it.
I challenge you to take me up on this.
I encourage you to get clarity on where you are in your engineering career right now and be more confident in what your next steps should be.
Next time on Her Engineering Career Podcast – as an appropriate follow-up to your SPOT check – we’ll talk about a key step near mid-career that sets the stage for your success.
I hope you’ll join me for Episode 162.
