Life After...Engineering and Built Environment: A practical guide to life after your degree

by Longson; Sally

• ISBN13: 9780415375924
• ISBN10: 0415375924
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-07-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What will you do next? Thousands of students graduate from university each year. The lucky few have the rest of their lives mapped out in perfect detail - but for most things are not nearly so simple. Armed with your hard-earned degree the possibilities and career paths lying before you are limitless, and the number of choices you suddenly have to make can seem bewildering. "Life After...Engineering and Built Environment" has been written specifically to help students currently studying, or who have recently graduated, make informed choices about their future. It will be source of invaluable advice and wisdom to graduates on where their degree can take them, covering such topics as: Identifying a career path that interests you - and how to start pursuing it The worldwide opportunities open to engineering graduates Staying motivated and pursuing your goals Networking and self-promotion Making the transition from scholar to worker The Life After University series of books are more than simple "career guides." They are unique in taking a holistic approach to career advice - recognising the increasing view that, although a successful working life is vitally important, other factors can be just as essential to happiness and fulfilment. They are the indispensable handbooks for students considering their future direction.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 Decisions, decisions...	1	(14)
2 Creating your career	15	(18)
3 Working out 'how to'	33	(18)
4 Connecting with your network: the world's a network	51	(18)
5 Hunting out the right opportunity	69	(16)
6 Proving yourself: from scholar to worker	85	(20)
7 Promoting and selling yourself	105	(17)
8 What's stopping you? Make it happen!	122	(13)
9 Moving on...Your future	135	(21)
10 Here's to life!	156	(11)
Further reading	167	(4)
Useful addresses and further information	171