As we’re focussing this week on careers in engineering and design, I wanted to explore how a key concept in engineering – design thinking – can be used to help you navigate your career options. Using ‘navigate’ rather than ‘plan’ was a very deliberate choice – just like engineering design problems, careers are complex, hard to predict and don’t always turn out the way we expect. Careers and engineering problems both involve a process of trial and error, and both need a healthy dose of creativity, adaptability and keeping going in the face of setbacks to make progress.
Design thinking and your career