Building a successful career in engineering

This paper describes one's approach to obtaining, maintaining and motivating oneself to stay inspired as one matriculates through one's career. The paper provides a step-by-step process for matriculating through one's career starting with a self-assessment, which provides options for your career plan, defines your strengths and weaknesses, and ensures that you are on the right road. In addition it helps match your strengths to the work you are considering and identifies what your contributions could be to the marketplace. The paper then takes you through the career decision-making process where one identifies one's long and short-term goals by matching career, personal and community objectives for lifelong learning, resulting in learning or personal career plan. The final stage to building a successful career in engineering is the identification and closure of the ideal job that matches your skills and learning objects, to job needs.