job resources

job resources

Job Opportunity Bulletin (maintained by UIUC Physics)

UIUC Physics Alumni use the UIUC Alumni Association resources - also Always Illinois

UIUC placement offices

Engineering Career Services (3270 Digital Computer Lab, 1304 West Springfield Avenue, U)
Biotech Center Placement Office
The Career Center (715 S Wright, C) calendar of career fairs and events includes workshops on resume writing, interviewing etc, offered several times/semester
Alumni Career Center 200 S. Wacker Dr., First Floor (MC 200), Chicago, IL 60606 PH: 312/575-7830 careers@uillinois.edu
Career Services Council (lists info on all career service offices on campus)

physics job/career links

Physics and Astronomy Job Hunting Resources (Joanne Cohn) excellent site!
Landing your first job: a guide for physics students by John S Rigden. AIP Career Services Division c 2002, Resources for the Job Hunter, p 31-42
American Association of Physics Teachers. Career Center
Physics Today. Career Network. Your source for science jobs and recruiting
High-Energy Physics Employment Database SPIRES
High Energy Physics Information Center. employment links elsewhere
Institute of Physics (London). Developing Careers
TIPTOP (The Internet Pilot to Physics UK). Physics Jobs On-Line
Plasma Laboratory. Weizman Institute of Science. Jobs Announcements: Atomic and Plasma Physics

member societies of the American Institute of Physics with job sites

American Physical Society. employment links and career guidance resources
Optical Society of America. Career Services
Acoustical Society of America. jobs
American Association of Physics Teachers. Career Center
American Crystallographic Association. positions vacant in crystallography & related disciplines
American Astronomical Society. Career Services
American Vacuum Society. career services
American Geophysical Union (AGU) job listings (member only service)

other professional or scientific sites

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Science Careers.org
AAAS. Search Careers.org Job Search create an "account," post resumes, search lists
American Mathematical Society. mathematical sciences career information
American Meteorological Society (AMS). employment announcements
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). careers navigator (some links are for members only)
Institute of Physics (London). Developing Careers
Materials Research Society. Career Central
NAS. NAE. NRC. careers career guides fellowships and postdocs
PhDs.org. Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources
Sciencejobs.com jobs in bioscience and chemistry from the publishers of Cell and NewScientist

optics sites

good department sites

Harvard. physics careers (for graduate student)
Ohio State University. Physics. OSU Physics Career Office
Pennsylvania State. Physics. job resources
Purdue. career resources
Sonoma St University. Dept of Physics & Astronomy. Jobs in Physics, Astronomy, and Other Fields
Stanford. jobs
Postdoctoral and faculty positions in nuclear and particle theory (Alexey Petrov) Wayne St U

academic jobs

Chronicle of Higher Education. Careers in Higher Education
Landing an academic job: the process and the pitfalls. Jonathan A. Dantzig, UIUC MIE (bk is on reference shelf in Physics Libr; 650.14 R448l (L) )

government lab employment/job opening

Argonne Careers at Argonne
Fermilab employment opportunities
Brookhaven job openings
Jefferson jobline
Los Alamos jobs@LANL
Oak Ridge careers
National Renewable Energy Lab - the nation's only national laboratory dedicated to renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and is managed by Midwest Research Institute and Battelle.

alternative jobs

Physics and Astronomy Job Hunting Resources (Joanne Cohn) excellent site!
A Personal Introducation to Opportunities and Resources for: Research and Activism in Energy and Environmental Science & Policy. Daniel M Kammen, Associate Professor of Energy and Society, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory Energy and Resources Group, at UC Berkeley
finance
Professor Nigel Goldenfeld. UIUC. finance for physicists
Dr Rodney Greene (UIUC PhD), Model Validation Group, Citicorp, NYC, From Fermi Lab to Wall Street (colloquium at UIUC) pdf
Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews by Timothy Falcon Crack

National Association of Colleges and Employers. jobweb

The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet

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