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In almost every work environment the ability to influence others is an essential job skill.

Advice from top executives reflects their years of experience climbing the corporate ranks, hiring people, and watching others succeed and fail.

Scientists and other professionals can increase their job satisfaction by kicking their addiction to praise.

The extra skills you need to get attention from industry don't have to cost an arm and a leg.

A recent book describes several clinical career paths that can be entered by people without clinical experience.

Workplace stress is intensifying in the sciences. Here are some ways of dealing with it.

Need to find out who's who inside a company? Here's how the pros do it.

Your parents may have told you that you're special, but the job market requires some humility.

Project management, as a career track and a core skill, requires detail management, good communication, and people skills.

Job seekers need to be able to interpret the jargon used in job ads and interviews.

There's no substitute for in-person networking, but LinkedIn, the professional networking Web site, can advance your job search.

"Teamwork is the business-world equivalent of 'plays well with others' in kindergarten."--Judy Heyboer

Even if you're dealing with the world's biggest jerk, he's likely to be the jerk
in charge.

"Business success is often defined by comfort with ambiguity and risk--personal, organizational, and financial." --Don Haut

Although it is true that some people use an early MBA as a launching pad, many others claim that the degree, without work experience behind it, only makes the job search more difficult.

"Now I understand why Microsoft Office products have all those collaboration features that I never found useful in the academic lab. My general impression is that academic labs are into producing soloists. Industry, however, wants orchestra players."

"Personal branding is not about presenting a false image. It is about understanding what is unique about you--your accomplishments, experience, attitude--and then using that to differentiate yourself from other job hunters. Your brand is your edge in the job market." --Levinson and Perry

"Personal branding is not about presenting a false image. It is about understanding what is unique about you--your accomplishments, experience, attitude--and then using that to differentiate yourself from other job hunters. Your brand is your edge in the job market." --Levinson and Perry