Getting your career off to a good start

Carl S. Carlson — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:00:03 +0000

Getting your reliability engineering career off to a good start

Abstract

Carl and Fred discussing their personal experiences and tips about advancing reliability engineering careers.

Key Points

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the enablers of reliability engineering careers. This will be a two-part podcast, with the first part focusing on beginning careers and the second part focusing on mid-careers.

Topics include:

Enablers for successful careers
“Career advancement” resources
Improving reliability skills on ongoing basis
Importance of broad understanding of reliability tools (fitting the right tool for the right circumstances)
Become expert in one or two tools
Where can you add value to the organization?
Balance personal interest with industry needs
Balance knowledge of statistics with understanding of failure mechanisms and physics
Improve soft skills (ability to work with teams, communications skills, project management)
Move out of comfort zone
Find a mentor

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques, to field data analysis approaches.

SOR 180 Getting your reliability engineering career off to a good startCarl S. Carlson