Article: Success strategies for the mid-career chemical engineer

Career Management

Here's how to take stock of your career and identify and explore a wide range of opportunities so you can decide where you want to go and develop a career plan for getting there.

Ask anyone who's enjoying a successful and satisfying career and you'll hear that planning and chance have both contributed, with planning taking center stage. Execution of a career plan gets people where they want to go. It's the proactive ingredient that leads to smart career decisions that are true to individual talents, needs, and aspirations. Without planning, careers can falter, meander, and go in unwanted directions.

That's not to say that successful careers don't take detours. Often, ...

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