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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
• Diversity₇Endorse 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.

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Author/Creator:

Hoschette, John A., 1952-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The engineer's career guide [by Hoschette, J.A.]

Subjects:

Engineering — Vocational guidance

Career development

Engineering

Genres:

Electronic book

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TA157 .H6183 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780470530177
0470530170

OCLC Numbers:

632157663

Other Control Numbers:

EBC540094 (source: MiAaPQ)