Physics Jobs and Careers
Photo by Mark McCarty
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.
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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.
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
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.
Read more: 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. Photo: 2007 committee members and APS staff. Left to right, top row: Ted W. Hodapp (APS), Arlene Modeste Knowles (APS), Eric Bittner, Gordon Thomas. Left to right, bottom row: Michael Johnson (2007 CCPD Chair), Mark Sincell (2008 CCPD Chair), James Fedchak.
Committee on Careers and Professional Development.
Link to Physics Jobs
You can now link your society, department, unit, or group web site directly to the APS Career Center. Help people quickly find or post jobs 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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