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The Job Market

Tooling Up: Managing Your Advisor

"You don't have to like or admire your boss, nor do you have to hate him. You do have to manage him, however, so that he becomes your resource for achievement, accomplishment, and personal success." Peter Drucker

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The Job Market

The Job Market

The Job Market

Tooling Up: Urban Legends of the Job Search

When delivering a job talk in industry, you need to remember why you are there and focus on the expectations of the audience.

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The Job Market

The Job Market

The Job Market

Tooling Up: The Job-Offer Checklist

There are great opportunities in industry, as well as situations in which your career could languish.

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Tooling Up: More than Just a Job-Seeking Skill

Think about what it was like when you were 16 or 17 years old, and you were learning to drive your parents' car.

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Tooling Up: An Ethical Conundrum?

Whether it's ethics or collegiality, decisions like this can have very real consequences, especially for people who are early in their careers and therefore vulnerable.

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Tooling Up: Big Decision

Can you manage your way through a career in industry?

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Tooling Up: Doing, Knowing, Judging: One Man's Quest to Link Academia and Industry

In academia, he says, you are rewarded by the development of the knowledge base. The difference in industry is that you are paid for the judgment.

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Tooling Up: The Career Contrarian

It's tempting to hang with the tried and true, but sometimes going against the crowd can pay off.

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Tooling Up: Career Success Factors, Part 3: Creativity in the Job Search

The daily stimulation of the mind, which he likened in our meeting to "putting on the thinking cap," is both a pleasure and a necessary tool for personal growth.

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Tooling Up: First Impressions--Are Interview Results Preordained?

Perhaps the best advice is that because there's nothing you can do about it anyway, you might as well be yourself. There's something liberating about the idea that you don't really have to perform, to pretend to be something you're not.

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Articles By Dave Jensen

Tooling Up: Managing Your Advisor

Tooling Up: Urban Legends of the Job Search

Tooling Up: The Job-Offer Checklist

Tooling Up: More than Just a Job-Seeking Skill

Tooling Up: An Ethical Conundrum?

Tooling Up: Big Decision

Tooling Up: Doing, Knowing, Judging: One Man's Quest to Link Academia and Industry

Tooling Up: The Career Contrarian

Tooling Up: Career Success Factors, Part 3: Creativity in the Job Search

Tooling Up: First Impressions--Are Interview Results Preordained?

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