Job Search Books + Guides

Engineer a bright future for yourself!

You've worked hard for that engineering degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options.

Great Jobs for Engineering Majors will help you choose the right career out of the myriad possibilities at your disposal. It provides detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search. You'll soon be on the fast track to landing a job that satisfies your personal, professional, and practical needs.

Great Jobs for Engineering Majors will help you:

• Determine the occupation that's best suited for you
• Craft a résumé and cover letter that stand out from the rest
• Learn from practicing professionals about everyday life on the job
• Become familiar with current statistics on salaries and trends within the profession

Go from engineering major to:
System operator * research engineer * naval architect * data mining analyst *chemical engineer * electrical engineering professor * technical representative

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Engineering Technician Job, or to apply for a better job, loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

Highly recommended to any harried Engineering Technician jobseeker, you'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it:

1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview;

2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style;

3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job.

This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Engineering Technician Job or move up in the system, get this book.