Building a Winning Career in a Technical Profession: 20 Strategies for Success After College
Autor David L. Goetschen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2006
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780131192102
ISBN-10: 0131192108
Pagini: 215
Dimensiuni: 192 x 232 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0131192108
Pagini: 215
Dimensiuni: 192 x 232 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Prentice Hall
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Descriere
Based on research with 200 accomplished professionals, Building a Winning Career in a Technical Profession offers twenty proven ways to build and sustain a successful technical career. Using a very practical approach, it examines specific “soft skills” that complement technical course work, and demonstrates how to learn and implement strategies such as integrity, perseverance, public speaking, leadership, and negotiating to take one to the top of their profession. Complete with success stories, discussion cases and insightful tips, it serves as an excellent reference, tailored specifically to technical professionals, and provides a road map for building a winning career.
Cuprins
1. Make Integrity Your Hallmark
2. Become an Effective Communicator
3. Become a Leader In Your Organization
4. Set High Expectations for Yourself and Develop a Plan for Achieving Them
5. Identify Positive Role Models and Learn from Them
6. Be an Effective Team Player and Team Builder
7. Be a Positive Change Agent
8. Project a Winning Image
9. Become an Effective Negotiator
10. Apply Self-Discipline and Time Management
11. Never Just Pass the Time–Use It
12. Learn to be Customer-Driven
13. Develop and Apply a Can-Do Attitude and Seek Responsibility
14. Don’t Just Plan–Execute
15. Become an Effective Public Speaker
16. Become an Effective Problem Solver and Critical Thinker
17. Learn How to Manage Conflict and Deal Effectively with Difficult People
18. Be a Mentor to Team Members and Your Boss
19. Learn to Balance Work and the Rest of Your Life
20. Persevere Through Difficult Times–Don’t Quit and Never Give Up
APPENDIX A: SAMPLE RESUMES
APPENDIX B: JOB SEEKING TIPS
APPENDIX C: INTERVIEWING TIPS
2. Become an Effective Communicator
3. Become a Leader In Your Organization
4. Set High Expectations for Yourself and Develop a Plan for Achieving Them
5. Identify Positive Role Models and Learn from Them
6. Be an Effective Team Player and Team Builder
7. Be a Positive Change Agent
8. Project a Winning Image
9. Become an Effective Negotiator
10. Apply Self-Discipline and Time Management
11. Never Just Pass the Time–Use It
12. Learn to be Customer-Driven
13. Develop and Apply a Can-Do Attitude and Seek Responsibility
14. Don’t Just Plan–Execute
15. Become an Effective Public Speaker
16. Become an Effective Problem Solver and Critical Thinker
17. Learn How to Manage Conflict and Deal Effectively with Difficult People
18. Be a Mentor to Team Members and Your Boss
19. Learn to Balance Work and the Rest of Your Life
20. Persevere Through Difficult Times–Don’t Quit and Never Give Up
APPENDIX A: SAMPLE RESUMES
APPENDIX B: JOB SEEKING TIPS
APPENDIX C: INTERVIEWING TIPS
Caracteristici
Based on research with 200 accomplished professionals, Building a Winning Career in a Technical Profession offers twenty proven ways to build and sustain a successful technical career. Using a very practical approach, it examines specific “soft skills” that complement technical course work, and demonstrates how to learn and implement strategies such as integrity, perseverance, public speaking, leadership, and negotiating to take one to the top of their profession. Complete with success stories, discussion cases and insightful tips, it serves as an excellent reference, tailored specifically to technical professionals, and provides a road map for building a winning career.
Tailored to technical degree majors—such as engineering, architecture, healthcare and technology.
Tailored to technical degree majors—such as engineering, architecture, healthcare and technology.
- Emphasizes “soft skills” that complement technical abilities and course work and lead to a successful career.
- Provides examples, cases, tips and strategies specific and relevant to technical professionals.
- Identifies 20 traits, skills and strategies that contribute to success after graduation, such as credibility, integrity, perseverance, self-discipline, public speaking, negotiating, etc.
- Serves as an excellent reference by outlining not only what readers need to learn, but also how to implement the strategy for maximum effectiveness.
- Presents the author’s findings based on a research study with 200 successful technical professionals.
- Compiles the experience, knowledge and recommendations of accomplished technical professionals in one convenient source.
- Illustrate how real people in five different technical professions have used recommended strategies to make it to the top of their respected professions.
- Motivate readers and provide them with role models for their own career success.
- Spark class debate and deliberation on specific strategies and why they are important.
- Offer guidance on specific actions that have been used by successful professionals in the past.