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Additional Resources
Academic job search
http://career.berkeley.edu/PhDs/PhDAcademic.stm
Dual-career job search
people.mills.edu/spertus/job-search/job.html -
sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/
articles/2240/solving_the_two_body_problem -
Other career resources
MentorNet - www.mentornet.net (free to APS student members)
APS Career Resources - www.the-aps.org/education/grad/car_res.html
APS Career website - www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/index.htm -
Your institution’s career center, other institutions career centers
Conference workshops (e.g., FASEB Career Center at Experimental Biology) -
Workshops
of Interest
Mentoring Workshops
2008: Gainfully Employed: From Launching a Job Search to Navigating
Negotiations
2003: Presentation Skills -
Trainee Workshops
2008: Marketing Yourself on Paper for Academic Positions
2007: Multiple Career Paths for a Physiologist: Understand Your Options
and How to Get There
2006: Transition from Postdoc to Jr. Faculty: Surviving the Initial Years -
Career Workshops
2006: Navigating the Interview: How to Make It Work for You -
APS
Career Web - How to search for the next perfect job
- Evaluating a job offer
- Negotiating for your first position
- Career options
- Developing Your Skills: Technical Writing
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Writing a CV
Writing a cover letter
Writing research and teaching statements
Recommended Books - The Academic Job Search Handbook (4th ed.). Vick, J.M. and J.S. Furlong. Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
- Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, 2nd Ed., BWF/HHMI (free download)