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Is it ethical to showcase work to a potential new employer?

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CivilSigma

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Nov 16, 2016
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Is it ethical to showcase drawings and reports I have written with my current employer to a potential new employer?
I will be removing client information, professional stamps, etc.

Is this ok?

Thank you for your opinion.
 
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In earlier times, I often noted projects I had been project engineer for 'while in the employment of other firms'... that's how they were presented... I had numerous photos of them. My CV was a single page, and I occasionally send it out to clients I'm working for, just for their information. When I was younger, I also had a binder of project photographs. In a presentation for a project we (the firm I was with; I was part of the team) were trying to get I had prepared a 3D parkade layout the night before, and in response to a question from the potential client about the most difficult work I had done, I responded that the stair at the Cornwall Centre in Regina was one of the more difficult items... they seemed non-plussed until I showed them the photo of this large freestanding staircase. We weren't successful in our presentation.

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Just to add a data point to this, I have personally done plenty of what you're proposing in the past, ethical or not. I've brought in paper copies of project drawings and taken them with me when I left. If a potential employer wanted to retain the drawings, or receive them as PDF drawings, I'd have to give that some more thought and, perhaps, refuse the request. That said, in any given market, all of the big players will invariably already have copies of each others' drawings and, in all likely hood, have already stolen them from each other or their common ancestors.

At the end of the day, we all have to sell ourselves in order to make a living.
 
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