RHIC Career Vulnerable Scientists Page

What is a Career Vulnerable Scientist?

This page is dedicated to RHIC Career Vulnerable Scientists (CVS). A CVS is defined as a scientist who generally does not have a permanent position within the community. This primarily includes students and postdocs, but can also include young faculty or staff members.

This page serves as a point of information providing job listings, job seekers, and job hints for RHIC collaborators.

Information and Discussions

BNL Association for Students and Postdocs (ASAP) - a forum for young scientists at BNL.

A forum for discussion has been set up in the phenix-junior-l listserver for PHENIX collaborators. Please subscribe to this listserver if you want to participate in the discussions. To review past discussions, go to the phenix-junior-l listserver archive.
A forum for job postings of interest to PHENIX collaborators has been set up in the phenix-jobs-l listserver. Please subscribe to this listserver to receive job postings. To review past postings, go to the phenix-jobs-l listserver archive.
Visit the web site of the National Postdoctoral Association, which seeks to provide a national voice for post-docs.
The April 2001 Issue of Physics Today was a special issue on Careers for Physicists. All links to the articles in this issue are available at the April 2001 Careers For Physicists special issue.
Check out the October 2000 CERN Courier Article. This details how the current state of the field has turned it into a training ground for other careers.
Read this article on the debate about possible graduate training reform

Relativistic Heavy Ion Jobs

This section provides a list of jobs available within PHENIX, STAR, and other relativistic heavy ion experiments. If you have a PHENIX job available, please send your job description to Jeffery Mitchell for placement on this page.

Institution	Position	Description	Date Available	Contact	E-mail/Info	Date Posted
University of Tennessee	2 Post-Docs	PHENIX / ALICE	Available 8/1/12	See listing	See listing	5/9/12
Valparaiso University	Post-Doc	STAR	Available now	See listing	See listing	3/19/12
Brookhaven National Laboratory	Assistant Physicist	PHENIX	Available now	See listing	See listing	2/17/12
Brookhaven National Laboratory	Post-Doc	PHENIX	Available now	See listing	See listing	2/17/12
Los Alamos National Laboratory	Staff Position	PHENIX	Available now	See listing	See listing	1/26/12
University of Illinois	Research Assistant Professor	PHENIX	Available 4/1/12	See listing	See listing	1/20/12
MIT	Post-Doc	CMS	Available Now	See listing	See listing	12/6/11

Job Information outside of our field

This section provides information for those wishing to investigate job possibilities outside of our field. This includes walking over to the industry side, or within other fields of science.

Scientific Job Information:

AIP Career Services - general information for physicists seeking employment.
APS Physics Jobs Listings - Electronic listings that appear in Physics Today
MINOS Neutrino Jobs Page - Compilation of jobs related to neutrino experiments
JobsinScience.org - Physics and other scientific job openings
phds.org - science, math, and engineering career resources

Industry Job Information:

CollegeGrad.com - the #1 entry level job site, with extensive information on careers, resumes, cover letters, interviewing, salary information, employer research and entry level job postings.
KLA Hints on a Modern Resume - From the KLA January 1999 Newsletter
America's Job Bank - listings from the Public Employment Service
CareerSite - A Personalized, Confidential Career Service
AfterCollege - A PhD and Post-Doc Jobs sorted by industry and location.
ScienceResearchJobs.com - Mostly scientific job openings in industry

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Last modified 5/9/12