 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| |
|||||
|
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
||
| |
|
|
Finding a job is a tedious and difficult process. You have to chase down leads from a variety of sources, you have to write a resume or update the one you have, and you have to research the organizations to which you apply. While it will not help you with preinterview jitters or write thank you notes, the Internet can make your job hunt a whole lot easier. First of all, you have to get that resume into shape. There are a lot of web sites out there to help you write a resume. Here are a few to try, http://editorial.careers.msn.com/ gettinghired/resumes/ and www.careerjournal.com. You will also find great hints for resume building and formatting at www.taos.com/resumetips.html. Now that you have a shiny new updated resume, you have to figure out where to send it. An excellent place to start is FASEB's Career Resources page at www.faseb.org/careers. For a fee, you can place your resume in the Careers OnLine database, where it can be stored, searched, and updated for one year. There is also a database of positions available, so you can browse for a job that interests you. The National Institutes of Health maintains a fairly current listing of job openings at www.nih.gov/about/index.htm#employ. FedWorld's listing of all open positions in the Federal government is ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/jobs. Be forewarned; the files are text files, and they are organized by regions rather than by position. Bio Online (http://www.bio.com/) offers a career center that lets you search a database of job openings at many major biomedical employers. At http://recruit.sciencemag.org/ , Science lists the recruitment advertisements that appeared in the last two issues. You can also try CareerPath (www.careerpath.com), a service that compiles the Sunday classifieds of 22 newspapers into one huge database. The Chronicle of Higher Education at http://chronicle.merit.edu/ offers a large database of jobs in academe. Do not forget about Usenet either; jobs are posted in the bionet.employment and bionet.employment-wanted groups. (If your site does not carry the bionet hierarchy, check out http://net.bio.net/. Most BIOSCI newsgroups are available through e-mail mailing lists). The next step is the most intimidating, the interview. Interviews can have several formats; your guide to recognizing various interview formats and responding appropriately is at www.winway.com/pages/ interview_formats.htm. Do not forget to do a Yahoo or AltaVista search for the organization's home page before your interview as well. Sometimes the job of your dreams is where you are not. If your new job means you have to move, visit Money Magazine's Best Places page at http://money.cnn.com/best/. Money ranks the 300 largest urban areas in the US to find the best place to live and work. You can rank factors from most to least important to find the city that would suit you best and compare the cost of living in your current and prospective hometowns. Finding a new job is never easy, but knowing how to use the Web can get you leads, improve your resume, help you with your research, sharpen your interview skills, and make moving simpler. It may be the most important job hunting tool you have. Use it! Flames, praise, suggestions, and links you would like published in a future issue of The Physiologist may all be sent to ckitaguc@the-aps.org.
*APS does not endorse or assume responsibility for the information posted on these web sites.
| |
