(Announcement) Sci Job/Career Internet & Book Resouce list
Arthur E. Sowers
arthures at access2.digex.net
Tue Sep 8 12:30:18 EST 1998
Sci Job/Career Internet Resource and Book Title List (Sept 8, 1998)
by Arthur E. Sowers, PhD
This is a resource list relating to jobs/careers in science and in
general. This list was compiled in the public interest and is posted in
the public interest. Some websites have recenlty instituted access control
meaning you have to pay or your institution has to pay for you to see
them. One printed and web-published periodical (_The Scientist_) stopped
covering career problems and career issues beginning approximately in
August 1998, but prior issues covering these issues are still freely
accessible on the web.
My website will move to a different ISP in the near future (probably
around Januanry, 1998) because of recent changes at Digex. I will make an
announcement as soon as it is clear where this new site will be.
Part A is internet based (primarily WWW sites)
Part B is a book list of titles I've seen, and some of which I have
read and reviewed (text included).
PART A: INTERNET SCI JOB/CAREER RESOURCES
Internet Science Job/Career Resource List:
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disclaimer: Many of the sites in this list, especially in Part V, are
commercial and are not likely to mention certain facts of commercial
policies, practices, and preferences which are not in business interests.
At least many do not carry disclaimers or warranties of their own. Most of
the commercial websites make no acknowledgement that other information,
possibly even better information, is also available on the web. Some
websites run "chat rooms" where your input may be censored, unlike on
(most) unmoderated internet newsgroups. Inclusion of such URLs should
not be taken as an specific endorsement by me. Some sites are mixed in
content; commercial (for fee) and gratis (for free) information. They are
listed as a source of information and if you can benefit in some way, then
this list will have served its purpose. I have no financial or other
connection with any of the websites or their personnel other than some of
them have external links to my pages and I have referenced some of them in
this list and on my website. I am not a recruiter and I receive no money
or favors from disseminating this list or from listing a given URL or
other source. I am responsible for my website material but not the
material on other websites. Most of the other websites do NOT have
disclaimers of their own and readers/visitors of those sites should bear
in mind what that means. This list, which will be updated from time to
time, is being posted in the public interest. Not all changes in this
list, including this disclaimer, will be announced. It is not intended to
be an all inclusive list. Revisions will be at irregular intervals and
given not necessarily with notice (this disclaimer is copyright by Arthur
E. Sowers, PhD).
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Part I: About the CPSJ essays
Part II: Net resources, other essays, info on the sci job market
Part III: Usenet Newsgroups as sources of job info, ideas, and leads.
Part IV: Unions (faculty, grad student, and post doc)
Part V: Misc web sites, often with CV, job lists, essays, &
other helpful external links.
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Part I-
rev Jan 29, 1997 "Contemporary Problems in Sci Jobs" (=CPSJ) essays:
a 2nd Edition of CPSJ is available by e-mail from the author,
<arthures at dmv.com> or <arthures at magpage.com>, or at any of the following
web sites, with
conditional unrestricted royalty-free reproduction rights. Earlier
versions of the "Contemporary Problems in Science Jobs" essays may be
found at:
http://www.mbb.yale.edu/acb/
http://chemistry.com/ (dig around)
http://his.com/~graeme/cpsj.html and ***/cpsj2.html
http://www.access.digex.net/~arthures/homepage.htm (my WWW site)
cited at: http://www.netcom.com/~stantony/biojobs.html
http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ae047/employ7.html
I APPRECIATE E-MAIL & NOTIFICATION OF OTHER RELEVANT INTERNET RESOURCES
My prefered email address is: arthures at access.digex.net
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Part II-
(rev Aug 25,'98) Net resources on PhD careers, job market and problems:
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Nat Acad study on where PhDs eventually go:
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/grad/
" " / " / " / " /appendixc.html
Goodstein Report: http://www.caltech.edu/~goodstein
Reports on nasty politics, situations on jobs (IMPORTANT):
http://his.com/~graeme/pandp.html
http://www.k9ape.com/c96/candor.html
http://www.disgruntled.com
WashTech, an advocacy & watchdog for Sci-Tech employees, the
H1-B & age-discrimination problem, and other industry hiring practices
in the interests of the industry but not the workers/employees:
http://washtech.org/
The problem when "non-compete" clauses can seriously hurt your career:
http://www.flash.net/~cmiller/ctgweb.htm
Other analyses of the poor job market and its causes:
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/e/r/erw/Public/Pandora.html
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/~pclarke/scientist/
http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ae047/employ7.html
http://physics.ucsc.edu/users/noc/Links/policy.html (excellent)
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~lerman/sci_pol/points.html
http://www.metronet.com/~jbmoore/pdblues/PDblues.html
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind96/ch3_sele.htm
Bad situation for Mathematics PhDs:
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~gdavis/policy/papers.html
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~gdavis/policy/papers.html
Less bad situation for Chem. PhDs:
http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/970728/sal.html
Statistics on Physics job situation:
http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/trends.htm
Some comments on economics, PhDs, and immigration:
http://www.dismal.com/thoughts/immigration.stm
Matloff's site on some realities in the computer job market including
much about seriouas age discrimination, immigration, & H1-B problems in
that area (you can get on Matloff's mailing list by email request):
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.html
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.others.html
Other comments of the computer job market:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/FORUM/POLICY/98feb25.html
"The Scientist"- newspaper about scientist careers (However,
material on career problems and career situations no longer appear
starting in Aug '98, Earlier issues '90-'98 are still freely
accessible on the web):
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu
gopher://ds.internic.net/11/pub/the-scientist (txt, partials)
AAAS (the situation of postdocs):
http://www.edoc.com/nextwave/forums_postdoc/
AAUP Listserver: majordomo at igc.apc.org - leave sub=blank -
put in text of message: subscribe aaup-general
AAUP email address: aaup at igc.apc.org
AAUP website: http://www.igc.apc.org/aaup/
PhDs website: http://www.phds.org/
Assn for Women in Science (AWIS): http://www.awis.org
Grad Student Advice Websites:
http://dogwood.botany.uga.edu/~jwest/bgsa/bgsa.html
http://asz.berkeley.edu/IB/grad/modestadvice.html
Postdocing in Japan:
http://www.twics.com/~nsftokyo/home.html
http://fuji.stanford.edu:80/JGUIDE/jguide.html
Other scientist employment resource info can be found at:
http://his.com/~graeme/employ.html (best I've seen yet)
http://saa49.ucsf.edu/psa/
http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ae047/employ7.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/4317/
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4707/
YSN website is at: http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/ (hunt around)
Science's NEXTWAVE, is a website carrying career-related material, but
is instituting access control Sept 15, 1998. You have to pay or your
institution has to pay for you to gain access. From what I have seen,
some old and original material has been removed/revised.
http://www.nextwave.org/
Congressional Liason Committee (if you want to write letters to your
congressperson in support of budget increases for science), then
get on the CLC email list by emailing to: tleshan at ascb.org
or pfarnham at asbmb.org
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Part III- Usenet Newsgroups as source of information, hints, ideas:
The internet carries hundreds of newsgroups dealing with jobs,
period. All of them have the word "jobs" somewhere after the
first dot. For example <dc.jobs> is a real newsgroup dealing with
jobs in the Washington, DC area. Most are computer jobs. A lot
are spam/scam/schemes that you should actually avoid. Some
resumes are posted. If you would like to see what resumes look like,
this is a place to look. There are also newsgroups more specialized.
For example, some have "jobs.wanted" or "jobs.offered" in their
name. Some have the word "resumes" in their name. PINE is a UNIX
newsreader/email client which has a search function for all
versions above 3.91. Ask your provider, if you don't know if
it is available. All you have to do is put in the word "jobs" and
all of the newsgroups which have that word in them will be listed.
Some ISPs also carry "proprietary" newsgroups. One has feeds for
all of the America On Line jobs newsgroups, which seem to be located
around almost every big city and some suburbs. Some NGs can be empty,
and some can have hundreds of listings. Try these too for your job
search.
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| the following list of website URIs need the "http://" URL prefix |
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Part IV-
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| (as of Aug 25, 1998) Faculty and Grad Student unions: |
| United Uni Prfs SUNY: www.uup.info.org |
| TA Assn UWM: www.taa-madison.org |
| Grad Emp Org UMich: www.umich.edu/~taunion |
| Assn Penna SCU Fac: www.apscuf.com (Feb, '97 or after) |
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| Nat Grad Prof Stu www.nagps.org |
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| Employee advocacy washtech.org (VERY IMPORTANT) |
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Part V-
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| From Wall St. Journal (Sept 20,1996, p.B1) article on Net job hunting |
| America's Job Bank: www.ajd.dni.us |
| CareerPath: www.careerpath.com |
| Online Career Center: www.occ.com |
| CareerMosaic: www.careermosaic.com |
| Help Wanted USA: iccweb.com (not a typo) |
| Monster Board: www.monster.com |
| E-Span: www.espan.com |
| Career Magazine: www.careermag.com |
| Career City: www.careercity.com |
| NationJob Net: www.nationjob.com |
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| (revised Sep 21,1997) OTHER RELATED Website URIs: |
| FSG (biotech) www.chemistry.com |
| Medzilla www.medzilla.com |
| Virt. Job Fair www.vjf.com |
| NES (very mild) pegasus.uthct.edu/nes.html |
| Top Job www.topjobusa.com |
| Fisk Book www.agu.org/careerguide (go for links) |
| Career CD-ROM www.careertoolbox.com (sponsor: ChavisRegal)|
| KellyScientific www.kellyservices.com |
| Space Jobs www.spacejobs.com |
| Chemistry Jobs chemistry.mond.org/jobs/jobguide.html |
| Chem & Industry ci.mond.org |
| Cell Press www.cellpress.com |
| SciWeb www.sciweb.com |
| Mainly for MDs www.medbulletin.com |
| TipTop (physics) www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/forum/jobs/ |
| GradLink www.gradlink.com |
| Bio-Online cns.bio.com |
| Bio-Online(alternate) www.bio.com |
| BiotechIndustryOrg www.bio.org |
| BioSci(science only) www.bio.net |
| Wall St Journal careers.wsj.com |
| AGI, but also others www.agiweb.org/agi/careers.html |
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| (added June 23, 1998) |
| UMD Career Center www.inform.umd.edu/Student/Career_and_Employ |
| ment_Service/ |
| UVa Career Center minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~career/ |
| Getting past Go www.mongen.com/getgo |
| Catapult www.jobweb.org |
| Cool Works www.coolworks.com/showme/ |
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| (added Feb 26, 1998) |
| for PhDs www.phds.org/ |
| careerbuilder www.careerbuilder.com/ |
| jobs 4 eng. www.ajob4engineers.com/ |
| jobs 4 scientists www.ajob4scientists.com/ |
| NY Times-Jobhunting www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/jobmarket/ |
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| (added Aug 23, '98) |
| SpaceJobs (pressure?) www.SpaceLinks.com/SpaceCareers/ |
| BIO's career site www.biocareer.com |
| German-based pharma www.pharmajobs.com |
| World-Wide www.siwa-tech.com.au/arrg/arrg.htm |
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Part VI: misc.(Aug 13, 1998)
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| Amateur Scientists www.thesphere.com/SAS/ |
| Amateur Astronomy www.corvus.com/
| Various resources www.myboss.com/ |
| Seniors/40+ www.fp.org/ |
| Nat Council Aging www.ncoa.org/ |
| FAQ finder ps.superb.net/FAQ/ |
| Chronicle of high ed. chronicle.merit.edu/ |
| Bioportfolio www.bioportfolio.com/ |
| FASEB article www.faseb.org/fj/Feb1998/garrison.htm |
| HMSBeagle biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/ |
| Science Writers nasw.org/ |
| 'puter Consulting www.realrates.com/ |
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PART B: Books that may help you...
For all of you that know me, both for the warnings about getting into the
grad school-postdoc pipeline and suggestions for alternative jobs, I have
been writing down book titles in bookstores that I enjoy visiting from
time to time. If I have read the book, then there is a breif review.
Remember, you should not feel obligated to buy these books.
Rather, try to get your local library to buy them for you, or if you are
in a hurry, then get them to get the book on interlibrary loan.
I will be upgrading this booklist from time to time as I see titles and
decide, from perusing the pages, that they might be useful.
Sept 2, 1998 update
Living Through Job Loss:
Coping with the Emotional Effects of Job Loss and Rebuilding Your Future
by Ann Kaiser Stearns (PhD) with Rick Lamplugh
A Fireside Book, published by Simon & Schuster, NY, 1995, $11.00 paper,
269 pages including 2 pages of further reading, 6 appendices of
resources, about 25 pages of notes & references, 11 pages of an index, and
two pages about the author.
Its important for several reasons. Job loss, today, is a major negative
event for anyone. Job loss is like career loss, and this book goes a long
way, not only with advice but many many stories from individuals that were
interviewed or otherwise researched out.
Another major reason for (maybe) all of you to look at a book like this is
that EVEN BEFORE you go looking for a career in, say, science, maybe you
better be prepared for "What do I do if I can't even get a career in
science started?" The situation where one puts in all this time and effort
in preparation for a lifetime career and CAN'T get a relevant job is, as
far as I am concerned, fully EQUIVALENT to the situation where one has
lost a job that he or she has had for years. This book will help in many
ways. Its not perfect, and there are things I don't like in the book. And,
there is almost nothing suggested to deal with age-discrimination. But,
there is much more that is good.
The author is a psychologist who has an interest in how people cope with
job loss, how it affects their lives and families, and lists up a lot of
useful strategies. She also talks a lot about how the workplace has
changed and goes into a lot of detail about successful strategies. She
also has a lot of data on populations (which unfortunately say, and can
say, nothing about what happens to individuals, and she knows this, too)
and what happens to them.
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