Career Basics
2009 edition

Looking for some great career advice for yourself, your colleagues, your students, or your postdocs?  Check out the new, updated Career Basics booklet from Science Careers.

As part of the Science Careers Outreach Program, we have collected a series of articles addressing all manner of career development issues. The 80-page booklet has all the information that you need to get your career on the right track: articles and resource lists provide information on choosing a career path, marketing yourself, identifying skills needed in different career paths, and understanding diversity issues. 

Approximately 25,000 print copies of the first version of the Career Basics booklet, printed in 2007, have been distributed and many more people have accessed it online. The new booklet is available at: http://sciencecareers.org/careerbasicspdf   

The Outreach Program runs career development programming for early-career scientists at various venues.  Find out more about upcoming Outreach Program events at: http://sciencecareers.org/outreach