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640778
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Chou, Wushow
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Fast-tracking your career : : soft skills for engineering and IT professionals /\ Wushow "Bill" Chou
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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1 online resource (xxv, 160 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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9781118662144
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: 1118662148
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: 9781118662151
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: 1118662156
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: 9781118662137
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: 111866213X
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9781118521786
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1118521781
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| Notes
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"Hard skills help us qualify for a job; soft skills dictate our career growth."
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Edition statement from running title
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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Annotation
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Engineering-- Vocational guidance
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Information technology-- Vocational guidance
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Soft skills
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Engineering-- Vocational guidance
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Information technology-- Vocational guidance
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Soft skills
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| Dewey Classification
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620.0023
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| LC Classification
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TA157.C477 2013eb
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