Lessons in Career Management from Silicon Valley: Key Factors for Continuous "Employment"

Successful consultants exhibit important attitudes, approaches, and skills that can be learned by engineers who want to become consultants. Engineers within the corporate world can apply these attributes to maximize personal opportunities in the face of the changes and uncertainties created by downsizing, restructuring, corporate alliances, and market dynamics. These important areas include past and current job performance, relationships, marketing and networking abilities, people skills, personal presentation, flexibility, and continuous learning abilities.