How to Find a Job
Finding a job is a job in itself. Cen-chemjobs brings you information on the essential components to make your search more manageable.
Self Assessment
The better you know yourself, the more prepared you will be to sell yourself to your ideal employer.
Targeting the Job Market
Understanding the major factors that influence the chemical Industry—and your career.
Identifying specific opportunities
Doing your homework to locate the job you want.
Networking
Networking is a critical activity but is often done so poorly that it has somewhat of a bad reputation.
Learn more about upcoming scientific meetings.
Being an ACS member enhances your networking potential
Interviewing
A primer for interview success
It may help to relieve the stress of an interview if you keep in mind that it's a two-way street.
An overview of various types of interviews.
When it's your turn to interview the interviewer.
How to handle questions that stump most job seekers.
Resumes & Cover Letters
Your resume gets you the interview, not the job.
Anatomy of a cover letter.
How to Write a Teaching Philosophy for Academic Employment
The teaching statement gives you a starting point for examining your teaching practices, allows you to share your ideas with others and allows you to monitor the progress of your own development as a teacher.
Tips on Writing Curriculum Vitae
The C.V. is vital to a search committee but it is not the most important part of the application. A good C.V. won't get you a job. But submitting an incomplete one could cost you that job
