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Science Careers is presenting four career workshops at the AAAS annual meeting this week.

Fewer faculty jobs are tenure-track, but job seekers in academic medical research need to look beyond the tenure-track label.

How the stimulus affects the scientific labor market depends on what comes after it.

A new fellowship program from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation will prepare 12 life-scientist fellows each year to commercialize their research findings.

Science librarians are in high demand, and the job offers a mix of research, teaching, and interacting with people.

Jeff Mangahas left scientific work to become an award-winning winemaker at Hartford Family Winery.

As science-funding agencies begin to dispense the huge stimulus appropriation, opinions about its ultimate impact on early-career scientists are mixed.

Layoffs, mergers, and company failures in the life sciences make for an extremely challenging job market.

Scientific training helps public relations professionals tell scientific stories for their clients.

There are restrictions and limitations on doing for-profit science, but there are also many advantages to joining industry.

The defense industry offers opportunities for scientists and engineers that go beyond designing weapons and aircraft.

Scientists working in pharma say the industry is among the most direct ways to improve human health.

As NSF prepares to help Professional Science Master's programs multiply, employment prospects for graduates of these programs look strong, even in a weak economy.

The demand for mycologists is relatively small, but career opportunities exist in areas from academic research to applied agriculture.

A successful start to your new laboratory requires careful planning, firm but fair negotiating, and wise spending decisions.

In 2007, about 40% of faculty positions in mathematics education went unfilled.

The booming, interdisciplinary science of networks reveals hidden connections in just about everything

A roundup of small grants, individual fellowships, and junior-leader positions in Europe and the United States designed to give postdocs some early autonomy.

Two new initiatives seek to prepare postdocs for off-campus careers.

Academia teaches technical skills, but scientists in the private sector say landing a job and thriving there is an education in itself.