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Featured Booklet
Career Trends: The Informed Job Search
Today's employment market demands that you have a complete mastery of the job search process. To help you polish the critical skills you'll need for a successful job search, Science Careers is offering a booklet of career advice on topics including choosing a career path, effective networking, getting the most from a career fair, marketing yourself to potential employers and acing your job interview. German and Chinese translations are available to download.
Science Careers Booklets
Career Directory 2013
Science Careers has teamed up with some great organizations to bring you information about the latest career opportunities in many different fields. The profiles included in this booklet give you a sense of the types of organizations that are accepting resumes and the kinds of positions they offer. We've also included some articles to help you improve your resume as well as some general tips and advice on job searching.
Career Trends: Industry or Academia: Where do I fit in?
If you have grappled with the question of whether you’d be better off in academia or industry, rest assured you are not alone. Trying to decide which career path to pursue is one of the most frequently discussed topics on ScienceCareers.org. With the increasing limited availability of academic positions, scientists must evaluate their options more critically than ever before and consider options beyond the typical academic path.
Career Trends: Finding Your Personal Job Chemistry
The keys to building a fulfilling career go far beyond the daily tasks of the job. Real success comes to those scientists who find themselves working in an environment that suits not only their skill sets but their personalities as well. Finding this balance can mean the difference between a tolerable job and a truly rewarding career.
Career Basics 2011 Japanese Edition
Struggling with your next career step? Science Careers' editorial team brings you "Career Basics: Advice and Resources for Scientists." The booklet provides advice and help on preparing CVs and resumes, writing grants and scientific papers, networking, and much more.
L’Oréal Women in Science: Forging New Pathways in Green Science
Science and the L'Oréal Foundation are proud to bring you our next Women in Science booklet, this time with a focus on women pursuing research in "green science". The stories you'll read here feature some extraordinary women whose passion for discovery, and compassion for our planet and its peoples, fuels their search for answers to difficult issues such as global climate change, famine, drought, and epidemics. You will read about women working across the globe, from Uzbekistan to Colombia, doing their research in unusual and interesting locations, from drought-stricken parts of Africa to the tropical jungles of Central America.
Step by Step: Your Career from Undergrad to Postdoc
A lot of what's written about science careers focuses on the career options available to individuals or how to apply for jobs when you're ready to go on the market. The reality, of course, is that we should be thinking about our career long before that point. This booklet looks at the steps you can take throughout your training to better prepare for your career. Whether you're considering which internship opportunity to pursue, what sort of graduate school experience you might be interested in, or what to expect in your postdoc position, there's information in this booklet for you.
L’Oréal Women in Science: Forging New Pathways in Biology
Science and the L’Oréal Foundation have teamed up once again to bring you the latest Women in Science booklet focusing on 16 women in five different areas of biology research. The essays about these scientists give you an idea of the differences and similarities between their jobs as well as some insight into their personal triumphs and struggles as they have built successful and meaningful careers. The interviews span the career spectrum from new scientists to more established researchers who have experienced the many ups and downs of a life in biology research.
Career Trends: Running Your Lab
Running a lab effectively is a complex undertaking that involves managing many things including people, time, projects, and budgets. Many scientists never receive formal training on running their lab but instead learn how to do it from mentors who have been successful. This booklet brings together advice and tips from Science Careers in order to help you be successful in running your own laboratory.
Career Trends: Building Relationships
Relationships with colleagues will be important throughout your scientific career. Building and sustaining these relationships is the focus of the latest booklet from Science Careers. Learn more about relationships with your advisers, mentors, collaborators, and the rest of your network. This booklet can help you use communication skills, collaborating, informational interviews, and online social networking sites to guide you through your career. Line your career path with the tools to succeed.
Career Trends: Careers Away from the Bench
Increasingly, Ph.D.-level scientists are becoming aware of other career opportunities beyond bench research. Learn more about the sorts of opportunities can scientists pursue and the skills scientists need to develop in order to succeed in non-research careers.
L'Oréal Women in Science - 2009 edition
New for 2009, Science/AAAS in collaboration with the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation is proud to bring you this Young Women in Science booklet. Following on from last year's very successful Women in Science booklet, this year we bring you more exciting and inspirational stories.
Career Basics Booklet - 2009 edition
Struggling with your next career step? Science Careers' editorial team brings you "Career Basics: Advice and Resources for Scientists." The booklet provides advice and help on preparing CVs and resumes, writing grants and scientific papers, networking, and much more.
