Biology: Career Information

Employment Guides

• The BioCareer Center
  The BIOCareer Center is a resource from the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the primary lobbying organization representing the world's Biotechnology Industry, in conjunction with SciWeb, The Life Science Home Page.
  
  
• BioLinks Careers
  A public bulletin board where both employers can post job announcements and job seekers can post resumes. It seems to be used by both groups and has current information.
  
  
• Biology Careers on the Internet
  A great article by Frederick W. Stoss published in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, This paper provides an inventory of career resources for five areas of biology: biochemistry and molecular biology, botany, ecology and the environment, general biology, and zoology.
  
  
• Bio Online Career Center
  Bio Online Career Center lists approximately 100 jobs from major United States biotechnology companies; updated weekly. There is a popular career discussion forum, plus many articles.
  
  
• College Grad Job Hunter
  A site designed to help the new grad prepare for the job search, write a resume, and learn how to effectively interview. Some links to job postings, but this is not the strength of this site.
  
  
• Frontiers in Bioscience: Jobs in Biology
  Frontiers in Bioscience journal has a comprehensive set of links to most of life sciencejob listings in biological and medical journals and newsgroups.
  
  
• Harvard University's Biology Jobs Links Page
  This section of the WWW Virtual Library on the biosciences provides a short but useful career webpage finding aid.
  
  
• SciJobs.Org
  Free resource for scientists seeking jobs in biology, chemistry, biotechnology, and related fields. Search by company type, region, degree, and keyword. There is also an e-mail alert service and a resume submission area. Jobs from academia and industry are indexed, with an emphasis on nontraditional science careers.
  
  
• ScienceJobs.Com Bioscience Job Board
  BioMedNet and New Scientist maintain an extensive database of jobs in biology and medicine.
  
  
• University of Wisconsin Biological Position Announcements
  This site, maintained by the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, keeps an up-to-date listing of job postings in the biological sciences.

Professional Societies Employment Guides

• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology : FASEB
  The FASEB Career Resources is a year-around career opportunities and development service that matches applicants at all career levels with employers who hire biomedical scientists and technicians.
  
  
• National Academy of Sciences
  The National Academy of Sciences offers an Internships and Careers section on its website.
  
  
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
  More than two dozen academic job opportunities are posted here, ranging from Post-doctoral Research Associate positions through Departmental Chairs. Openings are varied in subject matter and presently cover cell biology, integrative physiology, aquatic ecology, vertebrate anatomy, population ecology, quantitative neuroscience, plant chemistry, marine biology, and conservation biology, among many others. Each listing is fully described, with organizational hyperlinks and application deadline information.

Journal Job Postings and Databases

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
  The sciences section of The Chronical of Higher Education includes an extensive listing of jobs in academic settings every week.Mostly faculty and administrative positions.
  
  
• Nature
  Nature magazine's jobs listings include not only situations vacant but also fellowships, studentships and scholarships, and you can search the jobs by the position offered, its geographic location, its subject or the organisation that's offering it.
  
  
• New Scientist
  Britain's best science magazine, The New Scientist has an excellent career page.It includes a searchable database.
  
  
• Science
  Science magazine's career pages can be browsed by date of posting or searched by discipline.
  
  
• The Scientist
  The Scientist posts a bi-weekly review of career opportunities and meeting announcements.

Government Employment

• FedWorld
  U.S. government job search page.Browse by state or region or search their database.
  
  
• USAJobs
  The U.S. government's official site for jobs and employment information provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management.

Employment Discussion Groups

• BIONET
  The employment newsgroups in the bionet.jobs hierarchy are archived at the BIONET website along with the other academic biological newsgroups.
  • bionet.jobs.offered
  • bionet.jobs.wanted
  
  
• Google Newsgroup Archives
  Newsgroups are excellent ways to track employment opportunities and trends.The following newsgroups are starting places for your search.
  • bionet.jobs.offered
  • bionet.jobs.wanted
  • sci.research.careers
  • misc.jobs.offered.entry
  • misc.jobs.offered
  
  
• HUM-MOLGEN Positions in Bioscience and Medicine
  The Human Molecular Genetics listserv, HUM-MOLGEN, maintains a website of Positions in Bioscience and Medicine.It is organized by subject and has a searchable component.