Career Resources - Established Investigator

Career Resources: Keys to a Successful Career

Here are some general sites you might want to look at every now and then for general articles:*

Chronicle Careers
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Scientist
Subscription required

Index
Your current position
Your career
Your research
Your teaching
Your employees/students
Becoming more active in your scientific community

Your Current Position
There are many resources to aid you in dealing with day-to-day issues in your current position.*

Administrative departmental duties
Dealing with the promotion process
Ethics
Evaluating a job offers
Entrepreneurial skills/patents
Salary expectations
Talking to the public/media/Congress

Do Science Professors Get Enough Credit?
Career Network, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Data: Past Due (what to do with old unpublished data)
Jill Adams, The Scientist (subscription required)
20 Oct. 2003

Your Career
It's always worth taking stock at various times during your career to determine whether you are where you want to be, doing what you want to do.
Career options
Considering a change in career focus?
Dealing with job vs. family stresses
Ethics
Networking
Research or teaching or both?
Retirement
Turning Down a Promotion
Career Network, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Your Research
Document Your Use of Patented Tools
   Peg Brickley, The Scientist (subscription required)
   25 Aug. 2003
Research equipment and resource requirements of NIH-supported investigators: An assessment of current
    conditions and recommendations for future
    funding and programs
    FASEB, Jan 2003
Ethics
   APS Careers page
Seven Resources for Young Scientists
   ScienceCareers.org, AAAS
   Jan. 2003

See also Writing Grants in the New Investigator Section

Your Teaching
It's always important to continually improve your teaching skills just as you do your research skills, not to mention keeping up with technology.
Guidelines from a scientist to a scientist when
working with teachers
American Society of Plant Biologists
Improving teaching skills
Technology in teaching
Developing a web course
Making a PowerPoint presentation

Your Employees/Students
Your employees and students depend on you for everything from training to mentoring.
Ethics
How to be a good boss
How to hire a technician/Postdoctoral Fellow
Training your staff/students
Mentoring

Becoming more active in your scientific community
One way to become more widely known is to volunteer to become more active in societies, journals and organizations.
How to get selected for grant review boards
Scientific Meetings and Societies
Becoming involved in your society
Becoming involved with journals

*APS does not endorse or assume responsibility for the information posted on these web sites