ENGINEER ADVICE

3 Key Elements To Taking Meeting Notes In The Business World

Advice for new Engineers on taking effective notes now that you are out of school and in a professional setting

So you finally made it! 12+ years of primary schooling plus high school and now you have managed to get through all those weeks, months, and years of school to be an Engineer (or other big role). You can now put down that textbook. You have a job. This is the real world. You can Google any problem that you have instead of having to memorize random facts. Stack Overflow is fully available for use. And you can finally put away that pen and paper because you don’t have to take down all of those infernal notes all the time!

Not exactly. You have a lot to learn, young grasshopper. After graduating the sheltered world of academia and you are now out in the brutal and unforgiving business world. You are now subject to deadlines, sales projections, and business whims. There are no office hours to beg for a better grade. The world you live in is defined by the PC in front of you, the 4 gray cubicle walls around you, and the relationships that you forge at the water cooler. And now you have to go to meetings.