St. Louis Section–ACS
Career Services
 

Career Resources

Upcoming ACS Career-oriented Webinars

Whether you are looking for your first job or seeking to advance or transition in your career, ACS Career resources give you a competitive advantage in your job search. ACS Careers offers members invaluable resources: one-on-one career consulting, wage and salary information, and dynamic webinars to hone your job search skills. ACS Careers is the job search resource for chemists and scientists at all levels of experience and education. We’ll try to keep a list of near-future webinars here for you to join. Check here often, and save the dates.

Looking for a chemistry job in St Louis?

For those interested in finding a chemistry job in St Louis, or in finding a chemist to fill a job, we offer a variety of services. Upcoming workshops will be announced here as they are scheduled. All workshops are free and open to the public.

Ongoing services include:

• a LinkedIn group, Chemistry Careers in St Louis, where we share all job-related opportunities we become aware of
• an electronic database listing over 350 companies that employ chemists in St Louis (available to section members only)

For more information, or to broadcast a job opening to the LinkedIn group, contact our Career Resources chair.

Links for job seekers:

• - ACS Career Services website with job search tips, help with résumé preparation, and more
• Classifieds - a searchable database of job ads placed with C&E News
• Career Consultant, a free and confidential service for ACS members only: get expert help by email or phone with résumé preparation, job search strategies, interviewing techniques, making a career transition, salary negotiation techniques, and more
• Career Library - publications that can help you develop your job-searching skills
• Salary Comparator - Determine what your skills are worth in the open market. You will need your ACS member number to use this service.
• Career Development for Scientists, a blog run for national ACS by the St Louis Section Career Services coordinator
• ACS Careers blog presents short-article-type postings on career-related topics about once a week
• Science Careers magazine, a free e-zine from AAAS and Science magazine on career topics with job listings, articles, and tools for job-seekers
• Chemjobber, a blog with a mission, in its own words, “(1) Helping chemists find jobs in a tough market (2) Towards a quantitative understanding of the quality of the chemistry job market.”
• Report from the ACS Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs (CEPA) on “globalization” (outsourcing) in the chemical industry. Follow the link to CEPA Presentation on Global Outsourcing. If you have comments or questions, join the on-line forum on the same page.

Project SEED

Project SEED is the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) social action program that places economically disadvantaged high school students in academic, industrial, and government research laboratories for eight-to-ten weeks during the summer. The program is designed to help high school students to expand their career outlook and provide opportunities for students who historically lack exposure to scientific careers.

Project SEED offers high school students two exciting research opportunities.

• The Summer I program will provide first time participants (rising juniors and seniors) a fellowship award of $1,750.
• A second year program, Summer II, provides Project SEED Summer I students with an additional summer of scientific research. These students will receive a fellowship award of $2,000. Additionally, Summer II students will be eligible for travel grant of $100 to present their research at an ACS or other scientific meeting.

Each student conducts scientific research in chemistry or related field under the direct supervision of a scientist/mentor. The students must be economically disadvantaged and must be enrolled in high school or be recent high school graduates.

If you or your organization is interested in mentoring a potential future scientist, please contact the St. Louis section ACS Project SEED coordinator for more information and application materials.

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