The engineer's career guide

Part I: Successful career planning : Successful career planning

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

Part II: 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

Part III: 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 endineers are not successful

Part IV: 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 calenday

Part V: Successfully dealing with difficult people at work (People skills)

Dealing with a difficult boss

Diversity - endorse it or be left behind

Part VI: 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

Understanding the job search process

Self-inventory

Searching and finding jobs

Creating resumes that get you interviews

Cover letters that will impress employees

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

Part VII: 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

Part VIII: Financial planning

Basic financial management 101

Part IX: Fast track advancement and career accelerators

Getting on the fast track for advancement

Part 10: Be a consulting engineer

What is a consulting engineer? Is this the right choice for your?

Setting up and building your consulting business.