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2009 Salary Survey: Engineers Proceed With Caution
Survey shows readers are concerned, yet confident in a down economy.
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Chemical Engineers Crow
New Web site celebrates the profession's past and prospective achievements.
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Getting Ahead: Advancing Your Career Through Strategic Job Searching
At the cornerstone of any successful pharmaceutical development program is a well-developed and executed plan.
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The Great Pharma Job Shift: Where to Look, and How to Get There
Pharma jobs aren't being lost, they're just morphing into new shapes and sizes and reappearing in intriguing new places.
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Erosion Control: 2009 Salary and Job Satisfaction Survey
With corporate structures and loyalties crumbling, our annual readers' survey suggests that the key to job security is to stay relevant, connected, and nimble.
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Fight Your Own Demons to Find True Job Security
Times of turmoil can be beneficial to pharma professionals with a taste for growth, new challenges, and LinkedIn-style networking, says a savvy recruiter.
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Convince A Child to Explore Engineering
American kids need more awareness of engineering careers — and a better education.
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Choose Your Next Position Wisely
Finding your dream job takes a bit of soul searching and answering some tough questions
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ACS President: Passion and the Seven Cs Will Help You Navigate A Tough Economy
Thomas H. Lane provided pointers about necessary skills.
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Improve your job security
Professional development courses can give you an edge
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The price is wrong
Experts agree: monetary rewards are not the way to motivate employees.
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What make a workplace great?
What exactly goes into a great workplace? Senior editor Diane Dierking investigates and finds that companies that foster trust, pride and camaraderie among coworkers rank highest.
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Don't dismiss discontent
The downturn that the chemical industry is only now shaking has spurred massive downsizing at chemical plants; that much we all know. Despite the legions of Americans who are out of work, engineers, even those in seemingly safe positions, are pursuing greener pastures.
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Trading time for money
Recruiting and job hunting on the Internet.
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Job Design
Build employee loyalty and enthusiasm by rebuilding the work process.
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Making short-term loyalty pay
This article isn't about fighting the causes of high turnover—a costly battle whose odds are not in your favor. Instead, it's about creating enough short-term loyalty to achieve maximum payback for the one to three years you might enjoy the services of an employee. It's about getting amazing results from workers who, for whatever reasons, are just passing through.
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Reduce turnover, increase profits
Tom Moriarty explains what it takes to attract and keep qualified workers, and how employee retention rates affect companies' profitability.
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