BCA page of LINKS to jobs listed elsewhere and career development

Jobs elsewhere

• Biology Jobs
  
  
• Jobs page at ISIS the neutron spallation source at RAL
  
  
• IoP jobs
  
  
• the New Scientist jobs
  
  
• The Royal Society funds research fellowships, particularly the 4 year Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships, ( first awarded in 1995) closing date for applications usually February each year. Details from the Royal Society Web Site or Contact: Keith Wylde, Tel: 0171-451 2547 or email [email protected]
  
  
• Scientific American and Nature Science and Technology Jobs at all levels throughout the world
  
  
• the SCIENCE Professinal Network http://recruit.sciencemag.org
  
  
• Universities Advertising Group a consortium of 37 UK universities with jobs in higher education
  
  
• Applicants for Daphne Jackson Fellowships are always welcome. These may be held at any UK university and in any branch of science or engineering (including information technology). All applicants should contact
  The Administrator
  The Daphne Jackson Memorial Fellowships Trust
  Department of Physics
  University of Surrey
  Guildford
  Surrey GU2 5XH
  Tel: 01483 259166 Fax: 01483 259501
  
  
• There are now two interesting new links on the career opportunity pages of the Marie-Curie Fellowships site http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/mcfa-career/files/career.htm. In December 98 another job opportunities page was set up at: http://www.csb.ki.se/mcfa/openjobs.html, if that has moved try the main database address below.
  
  Marie-Curie Net JOBS database
  

  The MCFA jobs data base is steadily growing. There are currently almost 6000 offers of research posts all over the world hosted on the site. With this number the collection is now certainly among the largest job collections in Europe specific for research jobs and therefore a nice vehicle to make the MCFA and MC fellows known.

  In an attempt to further extend the sources for job information I have connected a news server to the jobs data base. It is now possible to feed the jobs site with announcements posted in a specific newsgroup. Currently jobs in "bionet.jobs" and "bionet.jobs.offered" are imported, but this could be extended to any available newsgroup, as long as the postings are suitable for the site and the newsgroup is exclusively used for job offers.

  If you know of newsgroups, that could be interesting for this purpose, let me please know.

  As said earlier, you can always post new announcements by sending a plain-text e-mail to the address

  [email protected]

  Please ask your institute to make job information available to a larger group of interested people and to post announcements to this e- mail address.

  The web address of the job data base is :

  http://www.mariecurie.org/career/openjobs.html
  

  
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  • http://www.phds.org/ This site is really huge, with a lot of information for scientific graduates. Find anything from job opportunities to career information here.
  • http://www.careerbuilder.com/ A very interesting site with information of how to manage your career, suceed at work and find jobs. It also features a monthly free email newsletter.
  • Net-Temps, A world of Jobs neatly Packaged, allows creation of a Free Desktop for your Job Hunt.

Site for Career Development for PostDocs

Subject: Career Development Center
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:58:42 +0000
From: Carlos Rascon
nization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
To: MCFA-Career

There is a new resource for science postdocs on the Web. Next Wave's Career Development Center (http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/feature/careercenter.shtml) is a free, comprehensive source of advice and guidance for young scientists pursuing academic research career in today's scientific community. In conjunction with our network of experts, we offer practical advice on a variety of topics including: writing grant applications, review criteria, becoming faculty, designing your lab, budgeting and becoming an administrator.

The site also includes up-to-date information on science policy issues, activities of postdoctoral associations around the country, changes in the funding landscape and current news events. Anyone who needs information about grants or funding can e-mail questions to the GrantDoctor, a weekly advice column ([email protected]). In addition, researchers can link to GrantsNet (www.grantsnet.org). This free service helps researchers locate funding in the biological and medical sciences through a searchable database of over 580 programs.

Next Wave's Career Development Center is published by Science and the AAAS. Major funding support comes from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (www.hhmi.org) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (www.bwfund.org).

Please forward this message to any of your colleagues who may also be interested in these issues.

Cheers,

Ellis Rubinstein, Editor, SCIENCE

EPSRC Career development schools

EPSRC are funding 4 pilot career development schools this year. This new initiative is being run by CRAC and UCL in London, Manchester, Strathclyde and Cardiff. These courses are free to researchers on EPSRC funded projects. Places will be available to non-EPSRC funded researchers if they remain vacant.

Each school consists of an initial residential phase of 21/2 days. Participants then carry out a practical career research project and meet for a final 1 day review 2 months later.

Dates are as follows:

London: 9-10 March with follow up in May (Now full)
Manchester: 5-7 April and 7 June
Strathclyde: 22-24 August and 11 October
Cardiff 12-14 September and 15 November


For more information visit the CRAC website (http://www.crac.org.uk/pdra).

Please pass this on to anyone who you think may be interested.

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