Graduate & Postdoctoral Students

Graduate Students

Professional Development Guide
Lists resources identified as important for the professional development of today's scientists.

APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development (CCPD)

CCPD/FIAP Invited Session: Physics Careers in the Semiconductor Industry
Presentations from the 2003 APS March Meeting

CCPD Tutorial: Things Your Professors Will Never Tell You
Presentations from the 2003 APS March Meeting

APS Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA)
FGSA encourages a free exchange of ideas among graduate students and the greater scientific community by providing opportunities for meetings, electronic discussion, and access to a permanent archive of member ideas and programs.

APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP)
FIAP is concerned with meeting the needs of industrial and applied physicists within the Society.  They also have a wealth of information on industrial and applied careers, and they just entered into a partnership with Mentornet to provide mentoring to physics students.

Postdoctoral Students

Postdoctoral Survey Results
A survey of junior APS members who are in postdoctoral positions

Other Resources

• Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisors, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies
• Has the Use of Postdocs Changed? [NSF, IB]
• What Follows the Postdoctoral Experience? Employment patterns of 1993 postdocs in 1995 [NSF, IB]