People often ask me how a chemical engineer wound up in talent. The short answer is, like many people, I naturally gravitated towards human resources and talent development roles in the companies I’ve worked for because I wanted to make work a better place. But the more detailed answer is rooted in the surprising similarities between these two fields.
In engineering, when you have a challenge in front of you, the first thing you do is write down your assumptions. Then you start to draw a picture of potential ways of solving it.
