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Chemistry

Descriptive Career Information | Job Banks and Searching Advice | Associations | Graduate School Information

Descriptive Career Information

Chemists and Materials Scientists
Descriptive information about the career from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, including links to related careers.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos049.htm

Chemistry Careers: Beyond Bunsen Burners
An article from jobweb.com. Provides a short list of some of the various occupations that chemistry majors might persue. Also provides some links to more information on chemistry careers.
http://www.jobweb.com/resources/library
/Careers_In/Beyond_Bunsen_156_01.htm

Job Banks and Searching Advice

American Chemistry Society Careers Page
A Job bank from Chemical and Engineering News magazine. Also features profiles of the companies that are advertising positions.
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/career.html?
DOC=careers%5Cindex.html

Chemistry Jobs
Career site of the Chemical & Engineering News.
http://pubs.acs.org/chemjobs/

Chemjobs.net
A small, international job bank for chemistry and related areas.
http://www.chemjobs.net/chemjobs.html

ChemSoc Careers
Career advice and links for chemists.
http://www.chemsoc.org/careers/careers.htm

Science Magazine Classifieds
Part of the Science magazine website, here you will find a job bank as well as job hunting and career advice, a calendar of upcoming job fairs, information about graduate programs, and a database to which you can post your resume for consideration by employers.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/

Sciencejobs.com
A job bak from New Scientist magazine. A portion of the job bank is devoted to chemistry jobs. Offers jobs in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Australia.
http://www.sciencejobs.com/splash.action

See Also: General Job Banks And Other Job Search Tools

Associations

American Chemical Society
The world's largest scientific society. Producer of Chemical Abstract Service.
1155 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington DC, 20036
Phone: 800-227-5558 (US only)
202-872-4600 (outside the US)
http://www.chemistry.org/

North American Catalysis Society
Distributed professional society with no central office; the New England branch is called "Catalysis Society of New England". Website includes job postings.
http://www.nacatsoc.org/

Graduate School Information

Peterson's Online Graduate Program Resource
Peterson's online searchable graduate program database. Users can search graduate programs nationally by keyword, location, etc.
http://www.petersons.com

 

See Also

Biology

Biotechnology

Healthcare and Healthcare Administration

Nursing

Science Resumes

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Page updated: February 28, 2008