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.

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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 graduate, mid-career, or looking ahead to retirement, The Engineer's Career Guide offers proven, commonsense advice for navigating all stages of your engineering career. Packed with real-world tips supported by actual work experiences and examples, this book gives you step-by-step guida.

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