Physics Jobs and Careers

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The APS Careers in Physics website is a gateway for physicists, students, and physics enthusiasts to information about physics jobs and careers.

Find physics job listings, career advice, upcoming workshops and meetings, and career and job related resources.

Best in Physics Jobs

Employers and Job Seekers
Qualified candidates and excellent jobs - APS's award-winning Career Center job board posts the best in physics and related fields.
  APS Career Center

March Meeting Sessions

Career Development Opportunities
Attending the March Meeting?  Check out sessions especially for collaborators, women physicists, students, and teachers.
  Career Development Sessions   

Insight Physics

Download Free Slide Shows
Physics InSight slide shows inform and excite students about careers and opportunities in physics. The slide shows are easy to download and install on PC and Mac based viewing systems.
  InSight: Slide Shows

Professional Development

In today’s career environment, many employment opportunities and career choices are available to scientists. Common to each of the many career choices are needed skills that are important to achieve success. Typically, many of these skills are non-technical and are not part of a standard academic curriculum.
  Professional Development
  Ten Steps to Improve Your Physics Career
  Nine Errors to Avoid in Your Physics Career
  Professional Development Workshops for Women

Speaker Travel Grants

APS now has a Career Development Speaker Travel Grant Program to provide assistance to physics departments that are trying to increase their career development activities and to raise the career awareness of students seeking undergraduate and graduate physics degrees.
  Career Development Speaker Travel Grant Program

Postdoc Best Practices

APS has recently approached physics department chairs to ask them how they deal with the problems that many postdocs face. You can read excerpt from the letter to department chairs from APS Executive Officer Judy Franz, followed by some of the responses.
  APS's Efforts to Help Postdocs

Committee on Careers and Professional Development

The APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development is a nine-member committee whose mission is to identify and address issues of careers and professional development for students, faculty, and physicists in the workforce, and to advise the APS on these issues.
  Committee on Careers and Professional Development

Link to Physics Jobs

Link your society, department, unit, or group website directly to the APS Career Center just by inserting a short HTML snippet on to your web page. Choose one of several button styles and connect to Physics Jobs with a click of the button.  No cookies or tracking code are involved, just a straight path to careers in physics.
  Physics Jobs Buttons