**Description**
This keynote offers tools, tips, and tricks you can apply today to stop spinning in career indecision!
Audience takeaways include:
Tools and tips to build decision-making skills
Questions and ideas to explore that expand future career considerations
A guide to career purpose that includes three pillars you can apply to each job, whether it is engineering, management or other
Section I - Indecision
Understand why you keep yourself stuck in indecision and how the consequences can be detrimental. Gain tips and tricks to help yourself become a better decision-maker, both personally and professionally.
Section I Takeaway: Decisions don’t have to be labeled as “right or wrong.” What’s much more important is how you respond and who you become.
Section II - The Right Career Path
Learn why you can stop asking yourself: "what is my right career path?" This self-limiting question can back your career into a corner, making you doubt your chosen path. Instead, this keynote offers more useful questions and ideas that will help you expand your career opportunities.
Section II Takeaway: “What is my right career path” is a close-minded question that presupposes one right answer and many wrong ones.
Section III - Career Purpose
Re-think the whole purpose of your career and what it is you hope to accomplish. Regardless of an engineering or management title, discover why your career is much more profound than prestige or money. Apply 3 pillars of career purpose today for a sustainable, thriving future!
Section III Takeaway: A career is one way to overcome obstacles and challenges that block you from knowing how capable you truly are.
The slide deck will offer an appendix with 3 universal leadership lessons for everyone, despite experience, status, or title.

**Author(s) - ranked in descending order of contribution / as it should appear when published**
Gina Covarrubias



**Description**
This keynote offers tools, tips, and tricks you can apply today to stop spinning in career indecision!
**Audience takeaways include:**
- Tools and tips to build decision-making skills
- Questions and ideas to explore that expand future career considerations
- A guide to career purpose that includes three pillars you can apply to each job, whether it is engineering, management or other

**Section I - Indecision**
Understand why you keep yourself stuck in indecision and how the consequences can be detrimental. Gain tips and tricks to help yourself become a better decision-maker, both personally and professionally.
Section I Takeaway: Decisions don’t have to be labeled as “right or wrong.” What’s much more important is how you respond and who you become.
**Section II - The Right Career Path**
Learn why you can stop asking yourself: "what is my right career path?" This self-limiting question can back your career into a corner, making you doubt your chosen path. Instead, this keynote offers more useful questions and ideas that will help you expand your career opportunities.
Section II Takeaway: “What is my right career path” is a close-minded question that presupposes one right answer and many wrong ones.
**Section III - Career Purpose**
Re-think the whole purpose of your career and what it is you hope to accomplish. Regardless of an engineering or management title, discover why your career is much more profound than prestige or money. Apply 3 pillars of career purpose today for a sustainable, thriving future!
Section III Takeaway: A career is one way to overcome obstacles and challenges that block you from knowing how capable you truly are.
The slide deck will offer an appendix with 3 universal leadership lessons for everyone, despite experience, status, or title.

**Author(s) - ranked in descending order of contribution / as it should appear when published**
Gina Covarrubias



Engineering or Management: What is My Right Career Path?

SAE International’s AeroTech is the premier global aerospace technology conference and exhibition focused on and celebrating innovation in virtually every facet of modern aerospace and defense mobility, including platform, system, subsystem, component, and material research and development, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, test and validation, certification, integration, deployment, sustainment, safety, security, and sustainability. Innovators and thought-leaders from the global aerospace community convene annually at AeroTech to share and learn about the latest advancements and achievements, advance technical knowledge and innovation, discuss challenges and practical solutions, discover new technologies and techniques, uncover trends and opportunities, network, and collaborate.