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Academic Advisor Tools

Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies: http://books.nap.edu/html/postdoctoral_experience/
Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (1997): http://bob.nap.edu/html/mentor/

NACADA's Technology in Advising Commission helps academic advisors understand the impact on academic advising of technologies such as the World Wide Web, e-mail, degree audits, telephone and on-line registration, and student information systems.

The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) is dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education. Its members are colleges and universities engaged in research, scholarship, and the preparation of candidates for advanced degrees. As the largest national association organized specifically to represent the interests of graduate education, CGS offers many opportunities for deans and graduate school personnel to exchange ideas and share information on major issues in graduate education.

Career Resources (Job Hunting, Career Tools, Employment Trends, Salary Information, etc.)

AIP Career Services: career development and employment resources in physics and related fields: an online job posting service, 400 jobs posted monthly, announcements of employment centers, etc.
 
 

Career Resources for Scientists Next Wave: the weekly on-line publication devoted to scientific training and career development, provides global news, profiles of emerging careers, and advice from experts and role models drawn from the international scientific community

The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network

Science, Math and Engineering Career Resources

AIP Statistical Research Center: Education and Employment trends in Physics and Related Fields.

Academic Employment Network (AEN) lists available positions in colleges, primary and secondary educational institutions for faculty, staff, and administrative professionals.

www.monster.com: More than 370,00 job postings, provides jobs and resume databases for more than 1,000 university career centers.

www.careerbuilder.com: network of 75 career sites, more than 1 million resumes.

www.careershop.com: information packed site with a personal job shopper service.

www.dice.com: 79,000 job postings from 6,800 employers nationwide.

www.wetfeet.com: offers 12,000 jobs and allows research on many companies, salaries, etc.

Publications

Physics Today is the #1 publication in the physical sciences. Published for more than 50 years, it is read by 120,000 subscribers in basic and applied research in industry, government,and university laboratories.

Scientific/Professional/Other Organizations

American Institute of Physics

American Physical Society

Acoustical Society of America

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

American Association of Physics Teachers

American Astronomical Society

American Chemical Society

American Crystallographic Association

American Geophysical Union

American Mathematical Society

American Nuclear Society

American Vacuum Society

SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering

Optical Society of America

Society of Rheology

Mathematical Association of America

Materials Research Society

Graduate School Demographics

American Institute of Physics' Statistical Research Center collects data regularly on physics graduate school data including enrollments, degrees, salaries, etc.

 
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