The engineer's career guide /
The Engineer's Career Guide John A. Hoschette The complete, one-stop career resource guide for engineers, engineering managers, and human resources personnel Every engineer needs strong career-planning strategies in order to survive and get ahead in corporate America. Whether you are a recent g...
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
©2010.
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| Series: | Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Successful Career Planning. Successful Careers Start with You
- Developing a Successful Career Plan
- Career Strategies: What Works and What Doesn't?
- Successfully Making a Job or Career Change
- Strategies for Getting Your Next Promotion
- Career Discussion Guide for Employees, Managers, and Mentors
- The Mentoring Process and Value to Your Career
- Stuck in a Dead-End Job? What to do to Break Out
- My Career has Plateau, Now What?
- How New Graduates Can Successfully Transition into Industry
- Phases of Retirement Planning: Beginning with the Young Engineers
- Company Structures, Organizations, and Barriers Impacting Your Career. How Company Size Affects Your Career
- The Corporate Ladder: Careers Open to You
- Invisible Company Barriers Stopping Your Career Growth
- Getting Ahead in Product-Oriented Organizations
- Getting Ahead in the Functional-Matrix Organization
- Determining the Criteria by Which You are Measured and What it Takes to Get Better Performance Ratings as well as Promoted. Determining How the Company Measures Your Performance
- Determining the Informal Criteria by which You are Assessed
- The Leading Reasons Engineers are Not Successful
- Improving Your Performance on the Job and Standing out from Your Peers. The Engineering Process in Your Company: Learning the Business
- Team Skills: Essential for Successful Engineers
- Generating Career Advancing Ideas
- Getting Promoted Whether Your Project is Successful or Unsuccessful
- How to Ask for a Raise: It is Easier than You Think, Even in Bad Times
- How to Get Your Next Promotion
- People Networking: A Vital and Indispensable Career Skill
- Accomplishing More in Less Time and Getting Organized for Success
- Your Internet Image: It could be Sabotaging Your Career
- The Importance of Maintaining a Company Calendar
- Join an Engineering Society: Enhance Your Career
- Successfully Dealing with Difficult People at Work (People Skills). Dealing with a Difficult Boss
- Diversity--Endorse it or be Left Behind
- Lost Your Job? Looking for a New Job? Strategies to Make You Successful!. Time to Change Jobs or Stay
- Using the Company's Job Opening System to Your Benefit
- Surviving Layoffs, Corporate Takeovers, Mergers, Shutdowns, and Reductions in Work Force
- Understanding the Job Search Process
- Self-Inventory
- Searching and Finding Jobs
- Creating Resumes that Get You Interviews
- Cover Letters That Will Impress Employers
- Why Portfolios are Important for Engineers
- Interviewing
- Following Up, Getting an Offer, and Negotiating
- Relocating and Starting the New Job: Tips to Make it Easier
- Further Education and Lifelong Learning. How to Get an Education from Your Company
- Getting a Master's Degree: So Worth It!
- Lifelong Learning: Growing or Decaying
- Financial Planning. Basic Financial Management 101
- Fast Track Advancement and Career Accelerators. Getting on the Fast Track for Advancement
- Be a Consulting Engineer. What is a Consulting Engineer? Is this the Right Choice for You?
- Setting up and Building Your Consulting Business
- Appendix A: Career Planning Workbook
- Appendix B: Self-Inventory Workbook
- Appendix C: List of Engineering Societies
- Appendix D: Notes
- Index.
