This is an interesting question and post this week for Module 4. I do not think I have ever stopped and thought about what “My Brand” would be to advertise myself to a potential employer. As I think about it, I think this would be my angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think my strengths as an engineer is my ability to work with other people and be service oriented. The majority of my career thus far has been as a manufacturing engineer. As a manufacturing engineer you must work with a wide variety of people ranging from production employees, production supervisors, design engineers, maintenance technicians, and other manufacturing engineers. Out of all the engineering disciplines, I think manufacturing engineers have to work and interact with the widest variety of people. This has taught me how to work well with others and provide good service to those I am providing support to and the projects I have to execute. I think this skill set is somewhat unique to engineers. Engineers are often known for their technical expertise and less for their people skills. So, I would want to highlight this strength. My weakness as an engineer is my lack of attention to detail. The times I have made mistakes on the job is because I have overlooked a detail. I had a manager in my previous position that used to remind me that “the devil is in the details”. This is often true when problem solving. The details tend to matter a lot. So, this is something I have to work at as an engineer. I feel for other engineers this comes a bit easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I were to try and come up with some clever advertisement for myself, I think I would go about something like this. I would show an ad of a very stereotypical engineer. Someone with thick lensed glasses, tucked in white dress shirt, and a pocket protector. The ad would then go on to show this person acting awkwardly in the workplace and people struggling to understand what they are trying to communicate. I would then ask the question in the ad “Are you tired of dealing with awkward engineers? Do you wish for a different type of engineer for your company?”. I would then go on to highlight some of my strengths as an engineer as they relate to people skills and communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now this ad is meant to just be fun. To all my fellow engineers and nerds out there, I do not mean to be insensitive or mean. I just think it is kind of fun to pick on ourselves or our own professions from time to time. I know humor in ads or on TV stand out for me. So, I thought it might make a fun advertisement to take a light hearted approach to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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