Page Index

 New Articles

• Tooling Up: The Project Management Career Track , November 2009
• State of the Nation 2008.  Canada's Science, Technology and Innovation System (Government of Canada, 2009)
• Salaries and Salary Scales of Full-time Teaching Staff at Canadian Universities, 2008/2009:  Preliminary Report (Statscan 2009)

Academia or Industry?

• Careers for Postdoctoral Scientists: Beyond the Ivory Tower
• Academia or Industry: Finding the Fit
• Analyzing Scientific Investments
• Careers in Biotech and Pharma: Changing Courses
• Scientist Lawyers: Test Tubes to Briefs 
• Where are the Scientists and Engineers?   A report from Statistics Canada (2007)
• The Business Development Career Track
• The Project Management Career Track
• The Regulatory Affairs Career Track
• The Biomanufacturing Career Track

Academic Job Search

General Articles / websites

• Career Basics:  Advice and Resources for Scientists from ScienceCareers.org
• The Academy as Community:  A Manual of Best Practices for Meeting the Needs of New Scholars (2004)  This document (pages 14-21) has lots of useful information on the following topics: the job search, the interview (how to prepare), the offer (what info do I need and what is negotiable), surviving the first couple of weeks on the job (asking for a mentor) and how to survive the first year.
• Landing an Academic Job:  The process and the pitfalls   J.A. Dantzig, Dept. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois
• Academic scientists at work 2nd ed. 2006, Boss, Jeremy M.    W88 .B87 2006 Health Sciences Library
• Job Search in Academe  Formo, Dawn M. and Cheryl Reed. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 1999.   LB2331.72 .F67 1999  MacKimmie Library
• The Academic Job Search Handbook (3rd Ed.). Heiberger, Mary Morris, and Julie Miller Vick.  Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.   LB2331.72 .H45 2001 Business library - Reference collection 

Academic Interview

• Closing in on a Job:  How to Prepare for an Academic Interview   Dr. Quentin Pittman, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary  
• The Truth Is, You Gave a Lousy Talk
• Academic Scientists at Work: The Job Talk 
• Acing the Academic Job Talk
• Tips for the Job Talk by Axelrod

The Application Package

• Marketing Yourself on Paper for Academic Positions  includes:
  • Academic Cover letters & the Art of Self-Presentation
  • Crafting the Research Statement 
  • Creating a Teaching Philosophy You Can Use
• The CV Doctor Returns 

Negotiating

• Negotiating for Your First Academic Position:  web sites with resources
• CAUT - Negotiating Starting Salaries
• University Salary Statistics Report for Canadian Universities
• "Gainfully Employed: From Launching a Job Search to Navigating Negotiations": Mock Interview and Negotiation Videos
• Negotiation Resources from the American Physiological Society

Industry Job Search

• Tooling Up: The Informational Interview
• A Toolkit of Transferable Skills for Postdocs
• Partial List of Skills Acquired During a Typical Graduate Education
• Tooling Up: Focus Your Industry CV
• CVs for Postdocs Leaving Academia
• How to Write a Winning Résumé
• Resume Preparation - Tips for Chemical Professionals
• Tooling Up: 15 Minutes to a Better Interview
• Interview Skills Online
• Interviewing Skills for Chemical Professionals
• How to Prepare for an Interview - range of articles on preparing for different types of interviews

Lab Management

• Research Integrity: Making the Right Choices  
• Lab Management: Insights for the new investigator Nature Immunology 7(9) 895 2006.  
• At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator. Barker, Kathy. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005. (MacKimmie Library)
• At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator. Barker, Kathy. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2002. (Health Sciences Library)
• Advice for New Faculty Members: Nihil Nimus. Boice, Robert. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000. (Business library - Reference collection)
• Academic Scientists at Work: Navigating the Biomedical Research Career.  Boss, Jeremy M., and Susan H. Eckert. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003. (Health Sciences Library)
• Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for Scientists. Cohen, Carl M., and Suzanne L. Cohen. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005. ( MacKimmie & Health Sciences Libraries)
• Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty (2nd ed.). Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 2006.
• New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. Lucas, Christopher J., and Murry, John W., Jr.  New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. (MacKimmie Library)

Mentoring

• Nature's Guide for Mentors.  (2007) Lee, A., C. Dennis and P. Campbell.  Nature 447, 791-797. 
• Writing Letters of Recommendation
• Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering.  National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,  Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
• Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for Scientists. Cohen, Carl M., and Suzanne L. Cohen. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005. ( MacKimmie & Health Sciences Libraries)
• Compact between Postdoctoral Appointees and their Mentors (December 2006) The Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors is intended to initiate discussions at the local and national levels about the postdoctoral appointee-mentor relationship and the commitments necessary for a high quality postdoctoral training experience.  The Compact was drafted by the AAMC Group on Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) and its Postdoctorate Committee, and it is modeled on the AAMC Compact Between Resident Physicians and Their Teachers. 
• Mentoring Scientists: An Ethical Dilemma  Mentors are important people in your life. They can give you guidance on personal, professional, and technical issues. In this mini-feature, a postdoc, a senior research scientist, a professor, and an NIH official are asked: How do you find a good mentor? Should you seek someone who resembles you, e.g., a female mentor, if you are a woman? Is it appropriate to approach someone who is not in your lab group?

Postdoc Issues  

• Strength in Bonding (Nature, September 2008)  Postdocs are attempting to organize their lot worldwide - but results have been mixed. 
• What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School 
• Taken for Granted: Help Is on the Way (for Some)
• Languishing in postdoc limbo.   Response:  Plus they're cheap.  

Authorship

• The Ethics of Authorship: Feature Overview--How Should Authorship Be Decided?  Provides links to 4 articles written by a bench scientist, an ethicist, a journal editor, and an ombudsperson who answer the questions:  What factors play a role in deciding the order of authors on a scientific paper? Who should be an author?

  Grant Writing

•  Academic Fundraising Web Resources
• "Guidebook for New Principal Investigators: Advice on Applying for a Grant, Writing Papers, Setting up a Research Team and Managing Your Time"  by: Roderick McInnes, Brenda Andrews, Richard Rachubinski. From the Institute of Genetics, CIHR.
• "The art of grantmanship" by Jacob Kraicer
• "How to get (and keep) an NSERC research grant"  by Ian H. Whitten
• Tips for Writing a Successful CIHR Grant Application
• The GrantDoctor: Advice for Grant Seekers

Media Guide

• Media Training for Ingenuity Researchers