 | | | IEEE Job Site Career Alert for 2 June 2010 | | Your weekly report on jobs, education, management, and the engineering workplace, from the editors of IEEE Spectrum. | | | | | | 1. When Mentoring Goes Bad | | The mentor-protégé relationship is a time-honored way for senior members of a company to extend their influence and for junior staff members to gain the benefit of seasoned colleagues' knowledge and perspective. But mentoring is not always a bed of roses, says a Wall Street Journal article. To ensure that it doesn't devolve into a thicket of thorns, the article suggests reaching a clear understanding beforehand of each party's expectations regarding how frequent and how detailed meetings will be and discusses the unfortunate ways such a relationship can sour. Read on. |  | | 2. iPhone Apps for Job Hunters | | In times like these, landing a job can be tough for anyone. But technology has come to the rescue in the form of iPhone apps that help a job hunter put his or her best foot forward. Among them are the Pocket Resume, which lets you fill in the blanks and turn a a polished, professional looking resume; Hire me, which generates dozens of random interview questions and allows you to record and play back your responses; and the Interview Guru, which gives you reminders of what to do in the days preceding, the day of, and the days after your interview. Read on. | | | 3. How to Revitalize Your Career | | Not where you want to be careerwise? A California Job Journal article presents advice on how to revitalize your career when you can't simply switch jobs. While doing the best job you can right now, reenergize yourself by putting a renewed focus on your medium- and long-term goals. Envision your "What's Next," write it down, and begin tackling it in small, manageable steps. In other words, if getting a degree is the key to reaching your career goals, find out what courses for which you can enroll next semester. Read on.
| | | 4. Finishing Schools Help Indian Execs Look the Part | | As commerce becomes more of a global exercise, executives at Indian firms are being sent to finishing schools to learn how to dress for success and to practice proper etiquette at the dinner table. "It is mainly Americans who have the no-formals look, but if you want to be global, you will have to do business with Europeans and the Chinese as well, who do not buy the dressed-down look," says Pria Warrick, head of one of the finishing schools employed for executive makeovers. Read on. | | | | | |  | 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
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