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"Nobodies to Somebodies is filled with stories of seized opportunity and realized potential; of surprising choices and staggering successes. From these 100 extremely diverse career paths, Peter Han has drawn common themes and lessons, which can help anyone who's eager to start (or restart) a deeply satisfying career."--Jacket.
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"John Fetzer's "Career Management for Chemists" provides common-sense guidance on the key topics such as: resumes and CVs, staying driven & current, personal skills & traits, networking, teamwork & leadership, speaking & listening, and writing research papers, mentoring, behavior & rewards."--Jacket
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"Contrary to what some people think, an education and background in chemistry prepares you for much more than just a laboratory career. The broad science education, logical and analytical thinking, research methods, and other professional skills are of value to a wide variety of employers, and are essential for a plethora of positions. In addition, those who are interested in chemistry tend to have some similar personality characteristics, which lead...
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"Scientific research is about discovering new things and applying them to improvements in life style for people and animals. But careers in science are now very demanding, requiring much more than a keen scientific mind and practical ability. If you are considering a career in research, have already embarked on your career, want to succeed and are uncertain which route to take, or need to advise, train or supervise scientists, this book should offer...
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To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works? In this unique book, Richard Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions. Are there circumstances under...
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"Competing Devotions focuses on broader social and cultural forces that create women's identities and shape their understanding of what makes life worth living." "Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career and family. These women executives, who face great resistance but are aided by new ideological and material resources that come with historical change, may eventually...
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Using interviews with technical professionals from a wide range of employment settings, examines the difficult path traversed by people who choose to work less than the standard, forty-hour week and refutes the popular myth of the customized work schedule as a return to traditionalism among women. Shows that most of these workers, male and female, young and old remain strongly committed to their jobs, but wish to combine work with other activities...
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Women around the world have achieved higher levels of education than ever before and today represent more than 40 percent of the global workforce. Yet their share of management positions remains unacceptably low. This timely study reviews the changing position of women in the labor market and in professional and managerial work. It examines the obstacles to women's career development and the action taken to improve their opportunities and promote...
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