Career Guidance
Career Activities and Events at the 2008 APS March Meeting 
Committee on Careers and Professional Development flyer of workshops and sessions particularly useful for planning careers in physics.
Professional Development Guide 
Lists resources identified as important for the professional development of today's scientists.
Postdoc Best Practices
APS has recently approached physics department chairs to ask them how they deal with the problems that many postdocs face. Read an excerpt from the letter to department chairs from APS Executive Officer Judy Franz, followed by some of the responses.
Speakers Lists:
• Industrial Speakers List
• Women Speakers List
• Minority Speakers List
March 2003 Session and Tutorial Talks
• CCPD/FIAP Invited Session: Physics Careers in the Semiconductor Industry
• CCPD Tutorial: Things Your Professors Will Never Tell You
APS efforts coordinated through:
• APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development
• Forum on Industrial & Applied Physics (FIAP)
Statistical Data
Talks and resources organized by the American Institute of Physics.
- Profiles of Physicists in Industry from the Industrial Physicist
- AIP's Physics Success Stories
- Sample Career List from the Villanova Physics Alumni
- Stephen Granade, Getting a Job in Industry [Duke Physics Seminar, March 2004]
- Careers in Science and Engineering: A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond
- NAS Career Planning Center
- Univ. of North Carolina: What Can I do with a Major in Physics?
