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IEEE-USA TODAY'S ENGINEER Advises "How to Cope With Fear in Finding a Job in Today's Economy"

WASHINGTON (11 June 2003) — "Despite the current economy and dim employment outlook, it is possible to land a great engineering job," writes Jennifer Hartranft in an IEEE-USA Today's Engineer feature article on "Finding a Job in an Unstable Economy: Coping with Fear." In the current issue of the monthly webzine, Ms. Hartranft points out: "It may seem as though there are more engineers than job openings. But if you look at the big picture in staffing, it's a great time to be an engineer."

Hartranft's feature is one of several engineering employment and technology policy-related articles in the May Today's Engineer, with tips, strategy and solutions for your career. To see the current issue, go to http://www.todaysengineer.org.

Other articles include:

"Book Review: 'Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others
Don't'" In his new book, Jim Collins and his research team examined 1,435 companies to analyze the practices that have helped 11 of those companies make the transition from good to sustainable outstanding performance. Collins in-depth, five-year study is described in this book review.

"Dual-Career Ladders: Rewarding & Maintaining Technical Excellence"
In this article, IEEE-USA's Professional Activities Editor Brian Skelton writes: "Organizations that have embraced the dual-career ladder (DCL) concept have made wise business decisions. Rather than promoting good engineers out of engineering, companies now use DCLs to offer engineer salary levels that are comparable to those of management while keeping the engineers in their valuable technical capacities." Skelton also covers the downside and challenges of DCLs.

"National ID System: Will We Trade Privacy For Security?"
Here, IEEE-USA's Editor-at-Large Terry Malkinson observes: "To be sure, citizens have dealt with identity confirmation for years. But as security measures continue to tighten and identification rules expand, many people in the United States have joined in the movement to create a national system to verify citizens' and visitors' identities."

To subscribe to the IEEE-USA Today's Engineer e-mail update, go to: http://www.todaysengineer.org/emailupdates.

IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers created in 1973 to promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 235,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.

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