All your hard work has paid off, and you’ve graduated – huge congratulations!
However, the learning never stops! We’ve selected some useful books to help you on your career journey. If you need help writing a winning CV, or want to know how to impress at interviews, we’ve got you covered.
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Winning CVs and Cover Letters for Every Type of Job
Lynn Williams
Fifth edition, 2012
This best-selling guide sets out the ground rules for preparing a CV by showing how to select which details go in and which stay out, how to lay out and present a CV and how to make a great first impression. It includes sample CVs for a wide variety of jobs, and also looks at specific ‘tricky’ situations such as getting your first job, returning to work after a career break, continuing in work as a mature employee or after retirement.
Be Your Own Coach
Jenny Rogers
2011
In this book, Jenny Rogers offers practical advice on research and preparation, giving guidance on how to behave during the whole selection process and present your skills and experience in a relevant manner.
Networking Know-How For Business and Career Success
Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon
2007
This book is a practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalising on networking relationships and opportunities. Packed with valuable tools, the book offers a field-tested “Hello to Goodbye” system that takes readers from entering a room, to making conversations flow, to following up.
Peter F. Drucker
2008
In Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker explains how to keep yourself engaged and productive during your career. Only when you operate with a combination of your strengths and self-knowledge can you achieve true and lasting excellence. Managing Oneself identifies the probing questions you need to ask to gain the insights essential for taking charge of your career.
IMechE Engineers’ Careers Guide
Abby Evans
2010
This careers guide starts with an overview of the engineering industry, as well as providing information on the various sectors, including energy and utilities, aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and manufacturing. It gives advice on work experience, applications, interviews, training and qualifications.
What Every Engineer Should Know About Career Management
Mike Ficco
2008
This text focuses on career management for engineers, and the accompanying importance of human and social interactions in the office.
Problem Solving for New Engineers
What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know
Melisa Buie
2017
When engineers graduate, they enter the work force with only one part of what’s needed to effectively solve problems – Problem solving requires not just subject matter expertise but an additional knowledge of strategy. This book brings a fresh new approach to practical problem solving in engineering, covering the critical concepts and ideas that engineers must understand to solve engineering problems.
Project Management, Planning and Control
Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards
Albert Lester
Seventh edition, 2017
Building on its clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling and control, this seventh edition includes new advice on information management, including big data, communication, dispute resolution, project governance, and BIM.
HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations
Nancy Duarte
2012
Terrified of speaking in front of a group? Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results.
HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across
Harvard Business Review
2013
To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority? By managing up, down, and across the organisation.
HBR Guide to Making Better Decisions
Harvard Business Review
2020
You need a smarter approach to making the best choice possible. This HBR guide provides practical tips and advice to help you generate more-creative ideas, evaluate your alternatives fairly, and make the final call with confidence.
HBR Guide to Better Business Writing
Engage Readers, Tighten and Brighten, Make Your Case
Bryan Garner
2013
This guide gives you the tools you need to express your ideas clearly and persuasively so clients, colleagues, stakeholders, and partners will get behind them.
HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done
Harvard Business Review
2012
In this HBR Guide, you’ll discover how to focus your time and energy where they will yield the greatest reward. Not only will you end each day knowing you made progress—your improved productivity will also set you apart from the pack.
How to Prepare, Stage, and Deliver Winning Presentations
Thomas Leech
2004
This book gives readers a proven and practical approach to increase their knowledge, capabilities, confidence, and success. The book provides proven, practical advice on communicating essential information when it matters most. This is an essential book for all professionals seeking to influence decision makers, win contracts, and enhance their careers.
Proposals that Succeed for Projects that Work
Ian Gambles
2009
This book shows you how to make sense of the task at hand, develop a strategy, articulate your options, define the benefits, establish the costs, identify the risks and make a compelling case. Just as with the best business cases, the text is concise, jargon-free and easy to read; illustrated throughout with practical examples drawn from real cases and including reflective exercises at the end of each chapter to help you consolidate what you have learned.
Writing for Science and Engineering
Papers, Presentations, and Reports
Heather Silyn-Roberts
2013
Learning how to write clearly and concisely is an integral part of furthering your research career; however, doing so is not always easy. In this second edition, fully updated and revised, Dr. Silyn-Roberts explains clearly the steps to writing abstracts, theses, journal papers, funding bids, literature reviews, and more. The book also examines preparing seminar and conference presentations.
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