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September 7, 2008

Skill Building

Many career options will require adding skills to make you an attractive candidate. Should I add a one year degree to augment my skills for my new profession? How do I pick up skills I by-passed while specializing? What do employers expect of me and what do they offer in terms of skill building? These are the subjects of the articles below.

Also, you may want to check the Bookstore for a recommended list of books.

Resources

1. The Public Speaker - Tips on Communication Skills

2. Connect to bookstore

Articles

1. Useful Classes and Practical Skills by John Bodeau, PhD

2. Feature: What It Takes: Skills a Science Writer Needs to Succeed by Tina Hesman Saey, PhD

3. Prepping Yourself to be a Teaching Professor by Jared Young, PhD

4. 3 Steps to Greater Career Skills by Cyndi Fischer, MSA

5. Wanted: Communication Skills in the Scientific Jobs Market by Cyndi Fischer, MSA

6. Transferring Your Skills to a Non-Academic Setting by Margaret Newhouse

7. "But I Have No Skills" by Rebecca A. Bryant

8. Gaining Practical Skills for the Policy Toolbox by Virginia Cox, PhD

9. Summer Program Offers Grad Students a Mini-MBA by Meredith Alexander Kunz

10. Building a Portfolio with Internships by Tina Hesman Saey, PhD

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