Have you recently obtained your PhD or are you an established researcher coming to the end of a contract?

Are you considering your next career move?

We have a number of fact sheets (pdf) to help you.

• Postdoctoral research
• Aiming for a lectureship
• Moving out of the laboratory
  
• The healthcare sector
  
• Job hunting
  
  • Writing CVs and covering letters
    
  • Job interviews

Microbiology Today, the award-winning house magazine of the Society for General Microbiology includes the regular feature Gradline (written by and for young microbiologists). Below is a list of selected articles from Gradline related to career development and job hunting for both postgraduate and postdoctoral scientists.

• Planned happenstance - an alternative approach to career development
  (May 2009 issue)
• All in a day's work - the use of recruitment agencies
  (February 2005 issue)
• PhD - what's next
  (May 2007 issue)
• Beyond the postdoc - planning for a career in university research and teaching
  (February 2006 issue)
• Funding your research
  (August 2008 issue)

 

We have also collected a set of links to the most popular science recruitment pages.

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