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Steering Your Career as a Woman Engineer Maria Klawe Harvey Mudd College Outline Some common scenarios Strategies for success The imposter syndrome Resources Questions and answers Common Scenarios Newbie To manage or


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Steering Your Career as a Woman Engineer

Maria Klawe Harvey Mudd College

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Outline

  • Some common scenarios
  • Strategies for success
  • The imposter syndrome
  • Resources
  • Questions and answers
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Common Scenarios

  • Newbie
  • To manage or not to manage?
  • On the slow track?
  • The manager from hell
  • The managee from hell
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Strategies for Success

  • Choose good goals
  • Be good at your work
  • Get good advice, coaching, professional

development

  • Be willing to learn and change
  • Network
  • Persist but know when to fold
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Choose good goals

  • Set short-term and long-term goals
  • The people who make a difference

– decide to do something important – plan a strategy – gather support – persist – and modify strategy when necessary

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Be good at your work

  • Hard work, persistence, commitment to

excellence

  • Be eager to do/learn the hard stuff
  • Be willing to take risks
  • Help others succeed
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Get good advice, coaching, professional development

  • Grow your family of mentors

– Professors – Role models – Peers – Mentees

  • Take advantage of courses, workshops
  • Coaches can make a huge difference
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Be willing to learn and change

  • Everyone can improve
  • What feels uncomfortable at first can become

a key skill

  • Learn to see situations from another’s

perspective

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Network

  • It’s all about relationships
  • Everyone can help
  • Do your part
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Persist but know when to fold

  • Persistence is incredibly important to success
  • Sometimes there’s nothing you can do
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Common Scenarios

  • Newbie
  • To manage or not to manage?
  • On the slow track?
  • The manager from hell
  • The managee from hell
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The imposter syndrome

  • What it is
  • Coping with imposteritis

– Practice, practice, practice – Remember your successes – Learn hard stuff

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Resources

  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in

Computing, Portland November 10 – 12, 2011

  • How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way

We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation: Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow

  • Getting to Yes: Fisher, Ury and Patton
  • Getting past No: Ury