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Perpetual Business Machines: Principles of Success for Technical Professionals
Engineers are facing unprecedented opportunities, risks, and uncertainties in the global economy. The book addresses three fundamental problems faced by engineering students and professionals: * If business is sponsoring technology, who is preparing technical professionals for business? * If technical professionals are expendable, who can assure career continuation? * If business is a multi-dimensional universe, how do we remove the invisible wall dividing professionals?
To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists
- by Peter S. Fiske. This best-selling guide to career change and career development is written specifically for scientists and engineers. "Enjoyable, entertaining, and full of humor. The chapters on finding a non-academic direction, on proving to employers that all scientists are not dweebs, and on case studies are excellent" - Kurt T. Bachmann, Birmingham-Southern College Available from AGU Press or Amazon ($19.00)
The Tooling Up Book Club: On the Market
Book review by Peter Fiske, Next Wave career columnist.
Annotated Career Book List from the Medical College of Wisconsin
Philip Clifford's book recommendation list.
Jump Start Your Career in BioScience
by Chandra Louise. "This book is designed to provide you (or your advisees) with a basic understanding of the working world, how it functions, and how this information can translate into different career opportunities in the biological and biomedical sciences. It describes positions both at and away from the laboratory bench. It is intended for students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, career counselors, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about the different types of careers in the biosciences." $19.95 from Amazon.
So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for M.A.'s and Ph.D's Seeking Careers Outside the Academy
by Maggie Debelius and Susan Elizabeth Basalla. $10.40 from Amazon.com. See the review on CNN.
Academic Environment : A Handbook for Evaluating Employment Opportunities in Science
by Karl Lanks. "Explains how to evaluate job offers and understand contracts, and discusses aspects of the academic environment such as career development and job satisfaction."
Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists
by Peter Fiske. "If you’re a new scientist or seeking a mid-career change, Peter Fiske’s Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists gives you practical advice and proven techniques for finding both traditional and non-traditional jobs in science. It includes examples of resumes and cover letters, and stories of scientists who have moved into a wide range of careers."
On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search
Christina Boufis and Victoria Olsen, Riverhead Books, 1997. This collection of essays by new Ph.D.s explores the problem of finding a job from a wide variety of viewpoints, offering advice for getting recommendations and performing at interviews as well as discussions of the personal difficulties involved. $10.36 from Amazon.