Employment Assistance Committee
of the IEEE Long Island Section

The Employment Assistance Committee (EAC) focuses upon the needs of those engineers located in the Long Island area who prefer direct employment to independent consulting. The committee makes available materials, and provides periodic meetings and/or workshops, that address the following areas;

Industry on LI

> Aceto Corporation

> ADP

> Aeroflex

> Air Industries

> Audiovox

> BAE Systems

> Behlman

> Bren-Tronics

> CA Technologies

> Cablevision Systems

> Canon USA

> Chyron

> Clever Devices

> Comtech Telecommunications

> CPI Aero

> DDC

> East/West Industries

> Falcon Stor

> Fonar

> Frequency Electronics

> GE Aviation Systems

> Globecomm Systems

> Grumman Studios

> GSE Dynamics

> Hauppauge Digital

> JetBlue

> Lockheed Martin

> Motorola

> Napco Security Systems

> Netsmart

> Northrop Grumman

> Pall

> Park Electrochemical

> Telephonics

> Thomson Reuters

> Underwriters Lab

> Veeco

> Verint Systems

> Vicon

Career Information

> Careers - WSJ

> Employment Opportunities

> Newsday Job Listings

Organizations

> LI Consultants Network (LICN)

> LICN Upcoming Events

> NAWB

> NY Department of Labor

> NY High-Tech Portal

> Techs Unite

> US Department of Labor

IEEE Global

> IEEE Job Site

> Join IEEE/Membership

IEEE USA

> Career Manager

Professional development of those who have chosen an engineering career path.

Retaining and increasing the number of engineering employment opportunities on Long Island.

Efforts that stress the "Value of an Engineer" and encourage more local students to go into the engineering field.

Strategies that engineers can use to maintain employment in an uncertain job market.

Benefit, compensation and work environment issues that engineers face.

Retirement issues faced by those who have been employed as engineers.

Non-technical topics that may be of interest to employed engineers.

The needs of unemployed engineers.

For upcoming EAC lectures and meetings, please visit the calendar page.
> Calendar

Past Lectures

How to be Viable in Any Economy Cycle

Robert Kohler - Keane
2009 May 21

Today's work place is ever changing and surviving the cross currents of hiring, promotion, layoff and recovery can prove daunting. This seminar presented by Mr. Kohler, explores "lessons learned" from a career spanning several years, which has traveled through the entire spectrum from hire to layoff and back again.

Armed with the information derived from Mr. Kohler's presentation and the discussion of lessons learned, each attendee can develop their own customized campaign for surviving the ever changing economic and work environments. This seminar covers the need for networking, contingency planning, and assessing one's skills and projecting a positive attitude in order to find the next position, get that promotion or to return to work after suffering job loss.

> Viewgraphs (0.1 MB)

> Essay (1.0 MB)

Maximizing Your Marketability

Dru Reynolds - Reynolds Recruiters
2007 November 13

How will you stand out in a crowd of your peers? Think a resume is all you need? While a resume is a critical component of marketing yourself, it isn’t the whole picture. Other issues to consider include: having a career roadmap, evaluating the corporate fit, and how to prepare for an interview. Learn how to combine these points and build a better career plan in order to land your next job.

> Viewgraphs (0.7 MB)

> Top 10 Resume Mistakes (0.1 MB)

A Perspective on Career Development

Timothy Farrell - Northrop Grumman
2004 June 10

> Viewgraphs (0.9 MB)

Additional Reference:

> Leadership #1 (0.1 MB)

> Leadership #2 (0.1 MB)

> Leadership #3 (0.1 MB)

> Leadership #4 (0.3 MB)

> Leadership Primer (0.2 MB)

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