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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?
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What They Don't Teach You in Grad School -- Part III
- By David E. Drew and Paul Gray. "In this piece, we turn to the career path tenure, academic ranks,and department chairs."
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Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty
- A very impressive and comprehensive lab management manual put out by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Your Professional Preparation Strategy
- Extended excerpt from Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering by Richard M. Reis, Stanford University.
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The Assistant Professor's Guide to the Galaxy
- George Beckey's guide to survival and success in academia.
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Career Development Manual
- An award-winning comprehensive career planning guide from the University of Waterloo.
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What They Don't Teach You in Graduate School - Part IV
- By Paul Gray and David E. Drew. "In our first three lists of tips for an academic career, we covered finishing the dissertation and finding the first job, offered an overview of various academic responsibilities, and described career paths. In our final installment, we turn to life an academic."
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Brown University Graduate School Career Services
- An excellent site with links and articles for surviving graduate school and for finding a job (both academic and non-academic careers are well-covered). Kudos to Brown for providing career services targeted to graduate students.
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Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science, & Marine Biology
- This career directory links to resources in oceanography, marine science, and marine biology. It is divided into two sections: general guides for oceanography and marine science and guides for marine biology, marine mammals, zoos and aquariums.
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Keys to Job Satisfaction
- by Search Masters International Recruiter Dave Jensen. " Typically the company losing a good employee finds out that the departure resulted from `'a lack of challenge " or that the former employee `'just needed something more. " The reasons offered in exit interviews always seem a bit hazier than the old " offer I couldn't refuse " response. This frustrates managers because they realize that they may have been able to do something to save the employee early on. "
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Destressing in the geekosphere - Naturejobs Jan 28 2004
- Finding a balance in the daily grind requires creativity and a sense of play. Kendall Powell explores how lifestyle can complement science.
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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)
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Careers in Science and Engineering: A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond
- A useful guide for students and junior faculty courtesy of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The Coincidence Factor
- by Search Masters International Recruiter Dave Jensen. " One of the first things you learn when you write and speak to scientists or engineers is that you'd better carry a lot of information around with you. I've learned that technical people, who generally have an analytical nature, like to hear about facts and figures. They prefer their career ideas presented like the result of an experiment at the bench. And whenever I stray into the ether and discuss career concepts that aren't rooted in terra firma, my audience brings me back to earth. "
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Tomorrow's Professor Listserv
- " Sent biweekly to over 1,200 graduate students, postdocs, and beginning faculty in science and engineering at U.S. and Canadian universities. It is very helpful to those individuals interested in preparing for, finding, and succeeding at academic careers in science and engineering. "
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The Tooling Up Book Club: On the Market
- Book review by Peter Fiske, Next Wave career columnist.
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Vision: The First Step in Career Management
- by Search Masters International Recruiter Dave Jensen. " 'It seems as if most of my career has been in stops and starts,' one of my audience members said. She had come up for a little informal career counseling after a seminar that I had conducted. This scientist had found herself in a particular career trap known as 'plateauing,' in which significant frustration results from a feeling of stagnation on the job. "
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Understanding Your Strengths and Weaknesses
- by Search Masters International Recruiter Dave Jensen. " Good managers know that an outside consultant, brought in at the right time and trained to use the right tools, can have a major impact on the growth of a business. Sometimes it takes an outside resource to help a team understand what weak areas limit their growth. The consultant finds the weak link in the chain and recommends an action plan. Did you know that this same process can sometimes make a wonderful difference in the way you view your career? "
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Building Your Career Success Library
- by Search Masters International Recruiter Dave Jensen. " On a recent trip, I realized that despite my best intentions I seem to refer to the same handful of books in my career writing -- while many books in my collection remain on the shelf. I think that it is time to tell you more about these good reads. "
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Persistence and Optimism: The Force Multipliers
- by Search Masters International recruiter Dave Jensen. " I found it remarkable that all speakers, when asked to share the nuggets of wisdom that they had personally learned the hard way, found some way to incorporate stories highlighting both persistence and optimism. "
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Scientific Career Transitions
- A program funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help scientists and engineers, post-docs, post-post docs, and pre-docs whose careers are at a crossroads. Distance career counseling and distance assessment are available at affordable fees. Contact: Dr. Stephen Rosen, 212-397-1021.
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ScienceCareers.org: Tooling Up
- Tooling Up, the ScienceCareers column on career advice.
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Don't Let Them Wear You Down: How to Take Control of Your Career
- Dave Jensen, Science Careers. "It is likely that you haven't yet experienced the deep-down depression born of being terminated unfairly. But it is my guess that you can definitely relate to how frustrating it is when an outside "force over which you have no control adversely affects your career."
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Careers in Anthropology
- Careers advice for anthropologists at every degree level, both in and outside of academia, with links to the web sites of hiring organizations.
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The 6 Biggest Science Career Hazards, and How to Avoid Them, Part 1
- David G. Jensen, CareerTrax.com. "I'll discuss six areas that most organizational development experts would agree are probable areas of concern for most technical employees. Several of these are actual situations that you may find yourself presented with, and after reading this through perhaps you can approach them with a better perspective for decision making. Others are more ethereal in nature; these take some thought -- even discussion with others who know you -- in order to identify how they present a problem. The inability to promote oneself falls into the latter category."
