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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?
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."
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.