Technical Career Survival Handbook 100 Things You Need To Know [Paperback]

Technical Career Survival Handbook: 100 Things You Need To Know provides the information needed to survive a technical career, enabling prospective technical career candidates and those currently in technical careers to explore all technical education possibilities, industries, disciplines, and specialties.

This handbook better equips the reader to deal with the tough situations and decisions they have to make throughout their career. Topics include preparing for the workforce, employment challenges, and dealing with on the job situations. This book is a practical guidebook for scientists, engineers, and technicians who apply the principles of science and mathematics to develop practical solutions to technical problems.

• Offers insights on how to pursue and navigate a technical career
• Discusses job searches, interviews, offers, and counteroffers
• Includes day-to-day, in the trenches, job situations that may arise and best practices on how to address them

Part I. Preparing for the Work Force 1. Technical Careers 2. The Big Four Engineering Degrees 3. Other Engineering Degrees 4. Technology Degrees 5. Career Choice 6. College Selection 7. Engineering Technology 8. Graduate School 9. Day Versus Night School 10. Co-Op Programs 11. Internships 12. Alternative College Funding 13. Finding That First Job 14. Geographic Factors 15. Interviews 16. Opportunities for Women

Part II. Employment Challenges 17. Experience 18. Work Direction 19. Manager 20. Management Styles 21. Positions-Open Versus Created 22. Specialties 23. Contractor 24. Consultant/Self-employed 25. Part Time 26. Temporary 27. Technical Spectrum 28. Job Titles 29. Job Descriptions 30. Salary Structure 31. Key Employe 32. Nondisclosure Agreement 33. Company Size 34. Company Organization 35. Penl³2