Physics Jobs and Careers
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The APS Careers in Physics website is a gateway for physicists, students, and physics enthusiasts to information about physics jobs and careers.
Find physics job listings, career advice, upcoming workshops and meetings, and career and job related resources.
Employers and Job Seekers
APS Career Center Job Board
Qualified candidates and excellent jobs - APS's award-winning Career Center posts the best in physics and related fields.
Insight Physics
Download Free Slide Shows
Physics InSight slide shows inform and excite students about careers and opportunities in physics. The slide shows are easy to download and install on PC and Mac based viewing systems.
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Professional Development
In today’s career environment, many employment opportunities and career choices are available to scientists. Common to each of the many career choices are needed skills that are important to achieve success. Typically, many of these skills are non-technical and are not part of a standard academic curriculum.
Professional Development Ten Steps to Improve Your Physics Career Nine Errors to Avoid in Your Physics Career Professional Development Workshops for Women
Speaker Travel Grants
APS now has a Career Development Speaker Travel Grant Program to provide assistance to physics departments that are trying to increase their career development activities and to raise the career awareness of students seeking undergraduate and graduate physics degrees.
Career Development Speaker Travel Grant Program
Postdoc Best Practices
APS has recently approached physics department chairs to ask them how they deal with the problems that many postdocs face. You can read excerpt from the letter to department chairs from APS Executive Officer Judy Franz, followed by some of the responses.
APS's Efforts to Help Postdocs
Committee on Careers and Professional Development
The APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development is a nine-member committee whose mission is to identify and address issues of careers and professional development for students, faculty, and physicists in the workforce, and to advise the APS on these issues.
Committee on Careers and Professional Development
Link to Physics Jobs
Link your society, department, unit, or group website directly to the APS Career Center just by inserting a short HTML snippet on to your web page. Choose one of several button styles and connect to Physics Jobs with a click of the button. No cookies or tracking code are involved, just a straight path to careers in physics.
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