Walk-in career counseling is available; appointments can also be made. The center offers help with your job search, resume, interviewing, career fair prep, and more. They now have a physics liaison: Rachel Keener Killam. You may contact her through the Career Services appointment desk at 303.492.6541
Join the Career Services' Facebook group.
Take a look at this introduction to the job search and some brief statistics on jobs for physics majors.
University of Iowa has a good career development site
For those of you in astronomy and astrophysics, look at the Decadal Survey, which outlines the goals of the astronomy community for the next 10 years. It also has info on the state of the profession. Planetary science has its own Decadal Survey.
Registration is FREE, and offers many benefits whether you're job hunting OR trying to find the right science professional to join your team. Are you hiring? If so, SPS highlights current employment opportunities to a large audience of specific, relevant candidates; posts jobs and allows for searching of candidates; and offers a database of 7,000 current science resumes. Are you job hunting? If so, job search is quick and easy to find relevant job listings and to sign up for automatic email notification of new jobs that match your criteria. The job application process is easy: You can apply online and create a password-protected account for managing your job search, and you can make your resume available to employers, confidentially if you choose, and download multiple versions of resumes, CVs, cover letters, etc. tailored to specific openings.
College majors versus salary
http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp
Resumes
Download some resume basics (ResumesQuickTips.pdf) from the Resumes, CVs, job search file folder. You can also check out the presentation that Cori Schaff from Career Services gave in a sping semester Beyond Boulder session (ResumeWritingPresentation.pdf).
Make sure everything on your resume is relevant to the specific job you are seeking. You should send out resumes
that are tailored for the specific company and job you're looking for. (Yes, this takes time...)
Talk about research your experience(s)! Research experience (or the actualization of scientific potential) is probably the most important thing that grad schools, employers, etc. look for. It's perhaps the one chance in your undergrad years to show independent, creative thinking and problem solving in a workplace (or workplace-like) setting.
Identify key upper level courses taken. If students have taken graduate level courses or specialized courses (like an undergraduate course in solar and space physics for a student interested in that field), this conveys how serious they are taking this. Be sure the classes you highlight are relevant to the job.
Pick your references carefully. Choose professors and supervisors that know the student, preferably in more than a classroom setting. If a response from a reference is that they’ve had the student in a single class and don’t know them all that well, it's not going to help you.
Cover Letters
Some quick tips on cover letters.
Career and Internship Fairs
CU Career Services has a listing of upcoming fairs.
Helpful information about how to prepare for and what to do at career fairs can be found at CareerFairsQuickTips.pdf.
Interviews
Some tips on interviewing and sartorial advice.
Disclaimer: The material on this website is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the AAPF program. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the fellows and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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