Post Dostoral Training: UNM Health Sciences Center

Career Resources

Job Finding Tips and CV building

UC Berkeley http://career.berkeley.edu/Phds/Phds.stm

  • Job search tools
  • CV building
  • Cover letter

  • Interview process


Faculty Development Sites

National Postdoctoral Associations and other University-based Associations

Job Posting Sites


Life Sciences

  • The American Society for Cell Biology has a Job Board listing positions in academia, industry and government
  • BioMedNet has a job exchange with detailed search engine.
  • The Career Center of Bio Online posts employment opportunities in industry.
  • Biospace.com has a search engine for biotech jobs
  • Biotechfind is a directory of international links covering the fields of biotechnologies and including a Biotechnology Career Center
  • Bioview is a site for biopharmaceutical jobs, news and resources
  • Medzilla.com has a search engine for jobs in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, health care and science
  • Nature Jobs has articles about career development and a search engine for job listings
  • Sciencejobs.com has a search engine for science-related jobs in the U.S. and international
  • Science Magazine's Nextwave has a job posting site with many resources including automated email updates of new positions in your field.

 

Academic

  • Academic Careers Online lists teaching and administrative jobs in colleges and universities.
    The Academic Position Network is a very clear and concise web listing of positions, primarily in the United States.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education's Career Network has a listing of academic positions in the U.S. and many other career resources.
  • HigherEdJobs.com has a search engine with faculty and administrative university positions.

 

Government

  • USA JOBS and America's Job Bank are job listing sites for the US Office of Personnel Management and the US Department of Labor. While both and are broad sites, they do advertise some advance research positions with Federal and State entities.
  • The National Science Foundation has a listing of vacancy announcements in all areas of administration and science.
  • The National Institutes for Health posts job openings with their CareerHere search engine.
  • The Center for Disease Control also posts employment opportunities.

 

General job listing sites

General Career Development Resources

Career Development Center for Postdocs and Junior Faculty is a resource site produced by Science's Next Wave. It has great advice on job hunting, career transitions, scientific salaries, funding, lab management and many other topics important to an aspiring scientist. 

"Managing Your Own Lab", by Dr. Thomas Cech, President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, (PDF article) addresses the need for mentoring postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty on starting their own lab (including personnel recruitment and training, grant writing, and budget management).

Employment Links for Biomed Scientists is a comprehensive list of links to job vacancies and career information.

Re-envisioning the PhD, has an extensive list of professional development and career resources

Individual Development Plan for Postdoctoral Fellows from FASEB. This document will get you thinking about your career plan and provides you with talking points for discussions with your PI.

 

Reports On Postdoctoral Training And Employment Trends

Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists A 1998 National Research Council study.

Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering A National Science Foundation (NSF) report from annually gathered data on employment trends for scientific fields.

Addressing the nation's changing needs for biomedical and behavioral scientists (2000), from the National Academies of Science

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