It's a well-known fact that engineers are recognized for their uncanny ability to create magnificent blueprints in an effort to bring brilliant designs to the world. Unfortunately, often times they suffer from a lack of the non-technical soft skills needed to advance up the corporate ladder and achieve the success they desire. Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career is a comprehensive, easy to read book, in which author Anthony Fasano provides the missing links that engineers need to implement into their lives to be successful beyond their wildest expectations. In this career-building "how to" guide you will discover ways to: -Set goals that are in alignment with your true desires, Find the right mentor and get the most out of the relationship, -Obtain the credentials needed to easily reach your goals, -Become an effective communicator, -Network your way to impactful relationships, -Get and stay organized in a way that will increase productivity, -Be a confident leader as you rise up the ladder to success! "This fast-moving insightful book is loaded with practical ideas to help you move onward and upward faster in your engineering career." -Brian Tracy, bestselling author of over 30 books, including Create Your Own Future: How to Master 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success"Anthony Fasano's approach to providing guidance to evolving engineers is crisp, direct, and well-organized. He has demonstrated excellent capability and success at a young age, and he is genuine in his desire to pass along lessons learned to others. His book will be invaluable to engineering graduates who desire to travel along proven pathways to success." - Bernard R. Berson, P.E., P.L.S., F.NSPE, Past President, NSPE, Co-Author, Career Success in Engineering (Kaplan Publishing Co., 2007) Finally get the answers to questions you have been asking yourself for years! Find out why goal setting is important; simple strategies to use to pass critical examinations the first time round; how to become a terrific public speaker and team leader, and so much more! Engineer Your Own Success is an engineer's guide to realizing their ultimate potential in order to lead a highly enjoyable and successful engineering career. Each chapter reveals steps towards advancing your career and shows you how to stand out from the crowds in your own unique distinctive way. The time to make changes in your engineering career is NOW and this book can help. Anthony Fasano, PE, has an appreciative awareness of the stress and challenges engineers face in today's corporate world. He is dedicated to helping other engineers in unleashing unlimited possibilities to create a career that is exciting, enjoyable, and rewarding while being well-balanced. Anthony also works with engineering organizations to help them boost productivity, energy, and awareness which maximizes their potential to achieve success. To subscribe to his complimentary daily email service, The Daily Boost, which inspires a wide audience of engineers, please visit www.PowerfulPurpose.com

Keramar

There are plenty of self-improvement and career-advice books available, however, you'll find few targeted to the engineer profession. This book fixes that shortfall and does it superbly.

This is an outstanding resource for engineers at any point in their career. Whether just beginning, or well-established, Anthony's book provides a superb guide for developing skills and competencies in the areas that will be essential to unlocking your highest potential and achieving your goals. The 7 key elements are truly essential to achieving personal success, and this book presents practical and easily-achievable tips and suggestions to unlock each of these keys in you.

If you're at the beginning of your career, grab a copy and use it to help you chart your plan for success. If you're an engineer-leader, then read this book to assess where you are in your own career as well as use it to help mentor the junior engineers that look to you for advice. You won't be disappointed.

Cogelv

This book provides great background on how an engineer (or anyone) can grow his career. The book gives you help on how to improve your soft skills, remain competitive, and find your place in the industry. I thought the chapter on the Professional Engineering License and Exam was the excellent; he discusses about the utility of the credential and how best to prepare for the exam (without going into the actual material specifics). It's a short book that you won't regret reading.

Framokay

I just finished reading the book and was very impressed. The author managed to put together the very essentials for a successful engineering career. Having been practicing as a Civil Engineer for just over eight years, I can see some of the lessons I learned through setbacks and frustrations clearly explained in the book. I do wish I had this book at the very beginning of my career-it could have saved me some time. However, I am still glad I got the book. It not only illustrates many important principles that I just start to get a sense of, but also organizes them in such a logical way that I believe is especially appealing to most engineers. Still early in my career, I can't say for the more experienced group how this book will benefit them. But this is a chart for younger engineers who aspire to explore the ocean of opportunities and find their dream land. I am definitely recommending this book to my friends and colleagues.

Zulurr

Don't let the title fool you! You might believe you need to be an engineer to read and benefit from this book but nothing could be further from the truth. The author, Anthony Fasano, was first trained as an engineer but early in his career he noticed that his skill as an engineer was not the only criteria used to measure his success.

He realized that the non-technical skills such as how to find a good mentor, how to be an effective leader, goal setting skills, organizational skills, how to become an effective communicator and learning how to network were also very important to his success and these topics were not covered in most engineering colleges.

Anthony discovered that the more he concentrated on developing these soft skills the faster his corporate career advanced.

Helping his fellow engineers excel in these skills became a passion for Anthony so he invested the time into becoming a business coach as well as an engineer. This book may have been original written to help only engineers advance up the corporate ladder but I believe that the tips, tools and strategies discussed in this book would work equally well for most technically focused professional such as architects or accountants.

Risa

For career advancement and development it is vitally important to develop good communication, organization, and networking skills. In his book, Mr. Fasano explains how to develop these leadership skills in a well organized, easy to read format. From an experienced engineer's perspective, the book is also a nice guide for mentors who are assisting newer engineers in getting on the right track for career success. A must-read for any engineer in any stage of his/her career.

Danskyleyn

As a civil engineering headhunter, I have found myself many times being a coach and advisor to engineers about what they need to do to have a successful career, advance, and achieve. Until this book, there has been no other "one stop" source that combined everything! As an engineer himself, Anthony knows the technical side and has mastered the PEOPLE side, which engineers haven't been taught. I will be recommending this book to everyone.

Wenyost

This book repeats what is usually common knowledge. It's too short to add any meaningful elaboration and a bit too peppy for me to enjoy. I was hoping for more concrete how's of success. Not for instance, just write a to do list with priorities or take the FE and go for a PE. Well and good, but types of to do lists maybe or why do a PE (even if you're an electrical engineer?).

Overall, a bit disappointed. I'm glad I got it cheaper on kindle and don't have a paperback lying about.

very helpful book. Found quite useful information and guidelines which can directly adopted in my career and personal life. Young Engineers should read it.