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Professional Societies & Resources
American Chemical Society
Career Development Guides
- Developing and growing in your career
- Finding and landing a job
- Exploring career options
- Career counseling
- Career pathways (guides for industry, government, higher ed, working for yourself)
- National Meeting Career Fair: ACS Career Days
- Salary calculator
Professional Development Guides
- Networking
- Peer review training
- Resume/CV/business plan guides
- Interviewing & negotiating guides
- Leadership Institute
- ChemIDP: An individual development plan for users to explore potential careers, determine skills acquired and those still needed for success, and develop plans to achieve professional goals
Magazine: Graduate & Postdoctoral Chemist (sample articles below)
- Maintaining your mental health
- Setting goals that increase success
- What I wish I knew before starting my PhD in Chemistry
- Championing science outreach
- From grad student to young professional: Tips for conquering the transition
- The other side of the table: An inside look at the industry hiring process
Online pre-recorded & live courses (examples below)
- Across the spectrum: infrared spectral interpretation
- Advanced statistical analysis
- Innovation management
- Chemical kinetics mechanisms
- High performance liquid chromatography basics
- Statistical calibration of laboratory methods
- Solid state characterization of organic compounds
- Effective technical writing
- Environmental fate & hazards of chemicals
- Regulatory toxicology for chemists
Webinars & Workshops
- Is biodegradability a solution to plastic waste pollution in the ocean & on land?
- Providing science & technology support to Congress
- 200+ more in archives
- ChemIDP, planning for your career
- Networking: how to get started
- Identifying a career that matches your strengths and values
Royal Society of Chemistry
- Interest groups
24 groups: e.g., water science, photochemistry, gas kinetics, astrophysical, electrochemistry, law, neutron scattering, surface reactivity & catalysis, etc. - Career development
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