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Tooling Up: Barriers to Decision Making

"It might be okay to take a shortcut if you're trying to decide which peanut butter to buy, but in the area of career decisions, shortcuts are dangerous." –J. Edward Russo

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Tooling Up: The Killer Instinct

"Our best people foster a killer instinct."

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Tooling Up: The Wall

I can't help wondering why, if only 15% to 20% of grad students and postdocs go on to academic careers, do we describe the career choices of the other 80% as "alternative"?

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Tooling Up: Adding Charisma to Your Toolbox

If they can't influence others positively, they will be relegated to running assays for the next 10 years.

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Tooling Up: The Slightly Irreverent, Shake 'Em Up Job Search

My attitude is that if you are stuck, you should do anything you can to get unstuck as long as it's not illegal, unethical, or obviously foolish.

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Tooling Up: Getting Stuck

If you're entrenched in something that isn't your lifelong passion--see below--you've got to get off those rails and find some way to get back on the right track.

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Tooling Up: 'Culturing' Your Marketable Skills

Very few of the factors that will make you successful are out of your hands.

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Tooling Up: Employment Due Diligence, Part 2

"Companies play favorites. You're either one of the favored few, or you're an orphan stepchild, all depending upon where in the company you work."

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Tooling Up: Employment Due Diligence

The cost of accepting a dead-end job, or working for a bad boss or an employer that isn't going anywhere, can be enormous.

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Tooling Up: Résumé Rocket Science 2007

I’ll take a good résumé or CV over a perfect one any day of the week because the good one can be done in a short time, allowing plenty of time for networking -- indisputably the single most important step in a job search -- whereas writing the perfect document could take you (and your CV or résumé) out of circulation for months.

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Articles By David G. Jensen

Tooling Up: Barriers to Decision Making

Tooling Up: The Killer Instinct

Tooling Up: The Wall

Tooling Up: Adding Charisma to Your Toolbox

Tooling Up: The Slightly Irreverent, Shake 'Em Up Job Search

Tooling Up: Getting Stuck

Tooling Up: 'Culturing' Your Marketable Skills

Tooling Up: Employment Due Diligence, Part 2

Tooling Up: Employment Due Diligence

Tooling Up: Résumé Rocket Science 2007

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