Professional Development and Career Planning
eBook - ePub

Professional Development and Career Planning

Guidance for STEM Careers

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Professional Development and Career Planning

Guidance for STEM Careers

About this book

Undergraduate students in almost all disciplines experience curricula dominated by technical foundations, but lacking many of the "soft" topics that the students will need in order to be fully prepared to practice professionally after graduation. Professional Development and Career Planning: Guidance for STEM Careers provides the information that will enable readers to develop a more complete education and ready them for the workplace. It helps readers recognize the importance of topics such as mentoring, developing professional attitudes, communication skills, codes of conduct, ethics, becoming knowledgeable about various aspects of professional life, and more. Each chapter of the book provides the necessary definitions, hypothetical but relevant case studies, methods and practices that can be used to identify relevant professional weaknesses, and ways to overcome each of them. This book serves as an ideal reference for any undergraduate student in the STEM field.

  • Helps readers recognize the importance of topics such as mentoring, developing important professional attitudes, and becoming knowledgeable about aspects of professional life that are not an integral part of the technical component of any curriculum.
  • Identifies the attitudes, abilities, and skills that will be needed to optimally meet professional responsibilities.
  • Provides information about the use of alternative methods of thinking to achieve success in problem-solving, with special emphasis on imaginative-based methods of thinking for multi-dimensional problems.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. About the Author
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction
  9. Chapter 2 Career Planning for Success
  10. Chapter 3 Internship Experiences and Professional Growth
  11. Chapter 4 Mentoring within a Professional Workplace
  12. Chapter 5 Development of Professional Attributes
  13. Chapter 6 Attitude Development for Professional Achievement
  14. Chapter 7 Codes of Conduct and the Resolution of Professional Conflicts
  15. Chapter 8 Development of a Professional Value System
  16. Chapter 9 Professional Resolution of Fraudulent Practices
  17. Chapter 10 Imaginative Thinking: An Ability for Professional Growth
  18. Chapter 11 Intellectual Characteristics and Problem Complexity
  19. Chapter 12 Knowledge Development via Academic Research
  20. Chapter 13 Professional Communication
  21. Chapter 14 Graduate Education: A Key to Professional Growth
  22. Index