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  title info:
    title: Fast-tracking your career
    sub title: soft skills for engineering and IT professionals
  name:
    name part: Chou, Wushow.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2013
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 160 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Annotation Fast-Tracking Your Career provides engineers and IT professionals with a complete set of soft skills they can use to become more effective on the job and gain recognition from management and colleagues. The 11 core skills covered here are accompanied by more than 40 detailed guidelines on how to master those skills. The book offers first-rate advice on how to go about acquiring communication skills, people skills, presentation skills, time management skills, and others. Specific examples about current situations are discussed, exploring the impact of the Facebook phenomenon and the subprime mortgage crisis.
  table of contents: Cover; IEEE Press; Title page; Copyright page; Fundamental Soft Skill Principle: Cultivating Gain-Gain Perspectives; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Guest Introduction I; Guest Introduction II; Guest Introduction III; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction and Summary; Engineers Are Potentially Better Positioned As Executives; Categorization of Smart soft Skills; Rules for Mastering Smart Soft Skills; Relationships among the Soft Skills; Interdependence; Parts making up the whole; Part One: Communications: The Absolutely Necessary; Chapter One: Communications Smart.
  table of contents: Part Two: Dealing with People: The EssentialChapter Two: People Smart; Chapter Three: Marketing Smart; A Marketing Role Model: Steve Jobs (and His Embodiment, Apple); Resonance; Positive spin; Crafted presentation; Enthusiasm; Reference; Part Three: Dealing with the Self: The Basic; Chapter Four: Work Smart; Chapter Five: Time Smart; Chapter Six: Career Smart; Part Four: Dealing with the Boss: Earning Trust and Recognition; Chapter Seven: Job-Interview Smart; Stories of Failed Interviews; A Successful Interview Story; Collecting relevant information through "networking."
  table of contents: Preparing targeted elevator speechesPositive spin; Resonance with a vision; Showing confidence; Chapter Eight: Boss Smart; Part Five: Dealing with Staff: Inspiring Loyalty and Productivity; Chapter Nine: Motivating Smart; Chapter Ten: Delegating Smart; Part Six: Being Visionary: Leading to the C-Suite; Chapter Eleven: Beyond the Box; Successful Fast-Tracking Stories; Final Thoughts; The Book's Objective; "Soft Skills" and "Rules" Outside the Scope of This Book; Born with personality; Rules that have already been covered in the book more effectively.
  table of contents: Rules that are the effects of soft skills but are not soft skills themselvesRules that are mottos but not themselves soft skills; Rules that are not essential to career fast-tracking; Rules that are expected of any competent professional; High Achievers' Soft Skills; Personal Career Goals; Appendix Tables for Principles, Strategies, and Rules; Abbreviations; Index.
  note: Wushow "Bill" Chou.
  note: "Hard skills help us qualify for a job; soft skills dictate our career growth."
  note: Edition statement from running title.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Soft skills
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Soft skills
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Engineering (General)
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Reference
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Vocational guidance
  subject:
    topic: Soft skills
  classification: TA157 .C477 2013eb
  classification: 620.0023
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Fast-tracking your career
    name:
      name part: Chou, Wushow.
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013]
    identifier: (DLC) 2013002854
    identifier: (OCoLC)811206342
  identifier: 9781118662144
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  identifier: CB8EDA79-F3AB-4EE9-B014-3EF43F125BB9 OverDrive, Inc.
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118662144
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 130617
    record change date: 20170124065912.6
    record identifier: ocn848917741
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng