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Being lead programmer "can be a lonely role stuck between the code pool and the management and therefore requires a level of confidence in oneself," says Marchalot's boss, Brandon Smith.

“We are looking for people who have a history of publishing and presenting. If the résumé doesn’t have those two key elements, they’ll be at a competitive disadvantage.” - Ron Webb, Procter and Gamble

Once they are in, young employees often state how surprised they are at how high tech, innovative, and environmentally-friendly today's steel industry is.

"They can be very good computer scientists, but they will not be hired if they don’t fit in the company culture" of Google, says new employee Oliver Heckmann.

Once hired, a chemist’s opportunities are limited only by his or her career ambitions and the company’s needs.

Van Roon's experience at DSM has been "rewarding, because we started an entirely new group; we are learning and making progress."

It may not be a hot new industry in which even mediocre scientists can write their own tickets, but the chemical industry is big, solid, diverse, and offers great opportunities for scientists who prepare themselves well in a marketable field and take the job search seriously.

“The lifestyle of a postdoc just didn’t appeal to me," Alex Marini, Senior Manager in Risk Management, National Bank of Canada says, "and I knew then that perhaps this wasn’t the direction that I wanted to go.”

"Real-world experience trumps classroom learning, and future employers don't care if the experience was paid or volunteer."

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.

NASCAR is hiring mechanical engineers and aerodynamics scientists to shave milliseconds off lap times and push racecars to their limits.

The American Chemical Society boldly and insightfully examines what's wrong with graduate education—and how to fix it.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

The best and most popular stories of 2012, as chosen by readers and editors.

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.

A recent NSF report finds that efforts to improve the representation of women, minorities, and people with disabilities in science and engineering are slow going.

Scientists with an ability to work across fields can find exciting opportunities in biomaterials.