Career Development

Listed below are several resources that we and others have been working on to aid you in assisting your career development. We will host career panels, seminars and subsidized training sessions on various career development topics. If you have any suggestions of specific topics that you would like us to address, do not hesitate to contact us .

• Annual Career Day Every year SPAC is holding a career day. Find out more about it here
• Career Development Resource Center To be located in the Arnold Library . See CDRC
• FredNet Find other people who have gone on from the Hutch to other areas of science Frednet
• SPAC Scholarships These scholarships, offered three times per year, of up to $500, can be used to subsidize the cost of coursework that will benefit the career goals of FHCRC postdocs and graduate students. See the scholarships page for more details.
  
  
• Links The following is a list of useful links organised into various topics. Feel free to browse these, and if you have any links to career resources, job banks, training facilities, or anything that may be of relevance to this part of the site, please send the link to Yegor Voronin and Yu Chen.
  

Practical Advice for Job Searching and job search sites:

• UCSF Virtual Career Center
• Yale Alternative Careers Web Page
• Links to Science Career Info for Undergrads, Grad students, and Postdocs
• Oral Presentation Advice
• Writing Successful Science Proposals
• Science Magazine Careers Page
• Nature Jobs
• Job Searching in a Hot Market: Article from "The Scientist"
  

Career Development Information:

• Career Development eManual
• General Career Planning Info
  

National Reports on the State of Graduate Students and Postdocs:

• Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers
• Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists
• Links to Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
• Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend--NAS publication on mentoring
• Web Guide to Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers-NAS publication and guide
• Survey on Doctoral Education Report
• Re-Envisioning the PhD
  

Funding Information:

• Community of Science
• GrantsNet
• ScienceWise
• More Fundings for Post-docs (Information provided by Carolyn Goard) Updated!!!
  

National Student/Postdoctoral Sites and Networking Groups:

• Science's NextWave
• Postdoctorate.net
• PhDs.org
• AAAS Postdoc Network
• National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
• Association for Women in Science
  

For future faculty/teachers:

• Tomorrow's Professor Listserv
• Preparing Future Faculty at UW
• National Preparing Future Faculty
• Making the Right Moves - A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty from HHMI
  

Alternative Careers:

• Megan Brown's Home Page (former Hutch postdoc)--Careers in Science--includes alternative careers section
• AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
• Slaves to science: industry vs academia
• Working in Academia and Industry: Another article from "The Scientist"
  

Miscellaneous:

• Links to many sites relevant for students and postdocs

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