Announcing the alternate science career information aggregation page

As promised, this is a page devoted to linking possibly useful information for scientists looking outside academia. I hope some of you looking for non-academic career information will find it useful. This is by no means a complete list, so if you know of other useful sites, let me know, and I will add them in!

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Blog posts about non-academic careers:

• "Alternate" careers describing actual science jobs (Prodigal Academic)
• CVs vs. resumes (Biophemera)
• Recasting your skills for outside academic (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• List of non-academic career options (Bitesize Bio)
• The value of internships (Just Another Electron Pusher)
• Transferable skills (Just Another Electron Pusher)
• Postdoc at a National Lab (Prodigal Academic)
• Staff scientist at a National Lab (Prodigal Academic)
• So you want to be a ... series (The Black Hole)

CV vs resume:

• Example of a CV turned into a resume
• Differences between a CV and a resume
• Resume advice

Possibly interesting career guidance:

• The versatile PhD
• Science careers
• Nature Jobs
• Alternative Science Careers
• Just Another Electron Pusher (a blog about careers outside academia)
• Materials Research Society Career Connections
• American Physical Society Careers in Physics
• Chemical and Engineering News Career and Employment
• AVS Career Services

Interesting non-academic science online discussion:

• Leaving academe forum (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Science careers forum (Science)