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Finding Jobs After Graduation
Useful Links
Further Recommendations
A practical book that identifies the important steps to prepare for
your first job after graduation (whether you are pursuing an undergraduate
or a graduate degree) is Landing Your First Job: A Guide for Physics
Students by John S. Rigden, published by the Career Services Division
of the American Institute of Physics. The Physics and Astronomy
Department owns a copy which you may borrow (sign it out from the main
department office), or you may purchase a copy
yourself from AIP.
The website for the Chronicle of Higher Education has a whole section entitled "beyond academia". It includes sections like "transferring your skills to the real world" and "deprogramming from the academic cult".
The book To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists by Peter Fiske has good advice on everything from figuring out your options to writing appropriate resumes and cover letters. This should be in every University Career Center, and if it's not in yours, make them buy it.
The book Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory
Tower edited by Cynthia Robbins-Ross, is made up of chapters written
by scientists who have pursued careers outside of academia. They include
people in technical writing and science journalism, investment analysts
and bankers, business entrepreneurs, patent agents and technology transfer
experts, public policy analysts, and others. Some of the authors have
physics degrees, though most are molecular biologists. The information
given is broadly applicable, however.
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