The Philadel­phia Sec­tion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety is offer­ing a Job Search Strate­gies Work­shop for chem­i­cal sci­en­tists enter­ing the job mar­ket and those in tran­si­tion. The work­shop will be held at Ursi­nus Col­lege in Col­legeville, Penn­syl­va­nia on Octo­ber 6th at 6:30 pm.

The work­shop has three com­po­nent pre­sen­ta­tions, each tak­ing about an hour. Plan­ning Your Job Search dis­cuss­es trends in the indus­tri­al mar­ket, artic­u­lat­ing one’s per­son­al moti­va­tors, locat­ing job open­ings and net­work­ing. Prepar­ing a Resume address­es resume prepa­ra­tion from the per­spec­tives of struc­ture, con­tent, for­mat and style; cov­ers let­ters; and oth­er rel­e­vant doc­u­ments. Effec­tive Inter­view­ing cov­ers the inter­view process, behav­ioral-based ques­tions, han­dling dif­fi­cult ques­tions, prepar­ing for inter­views, the research talk, and man­ag­ing job deci­sions.

The empha­sis of this work­shop will be on indus­tri­al employ­ment. How­ev­er, since gov­ern­ment employ­ment offers many career oppor­tu­ni­ties for sci­en­tists, we’ll dis­cuss this top­ic as well.

Down­load fly­er for addi­tion­al details: JobSearchWorkshop.pdf.