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Some useful careers websites
17 February 2010
By Tennie Videler
Using Twitter I found some career websites that are not directly aimed at researchers that I still thought would be useful. After all, a career is a career and being proactive in its development is likely to help you negotiate one more effectively. In no particular order: Careerrealism- their slogan is ‘because every job is temporary’. I also like the not directly career related articles on things like dealing with email overload (really lessons in email etiquette…). Brazen careerist is based on the idea that networking is your most efficient career building tool. I really like the tone and content of Louise Fletcher’s Career Hub, which contains career advice from quite a few career experts.
As we have seen from a lot of posts here there are lots of members of research staff who are considering career changes. I’ve found two websites that are specifically targeted to this: Career shifters and a Career Change.
I’ll just mention some websites that are more obviously for researchers, starting with the Vitae careers pages. In it are links to sites like jobs.ac.uk, where lots of jobs within and outside academia are advertised but which also gives good advice and PhDjobs, which is a specialist recruitment board. For scientists among us there is Science careers, from Science magazine and the independent Career in Science. In his blog Adventures in career development Tristram Hooley (formerly of Vitae and a major driving force behind the birth of this blog) gives his thoughts on career development, research, researchers, work, reading and people in general.
I hope this is useful! I am sure there are many other useful careers websites out there- do you have any favourites to recommend?
Blanka Sengerová18 February 2010 at 06:08 PM
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On this topic, do you have any advice on job searching abroad (I am thinking mainland Europe)? All of the stuff I've learned/advice I've been given has been very much focussed on getting a job in the UK and in the long term I plan to move abroad so knowing about the differences in CVs/application procedures would be helpful.
Hannah Dee19 February 2010 at 09:10 AM
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Blanka - There's the Euraccess job portal here: http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index_en.cfm?l1=0&l2=1 which doesn't have much going for it web-design wise but does claim to be a portal for EU jobs. I think that discipline-specific mailing lists are also likely to be useful (and maybe more so) - I know that in my field, pretty much any vacancy gets sent to the ImageWorld list, and pretty much everyone subscribes. As for protocols on CVs and so on I'm not entirely sure... after applying for my current post-doc (in France) with a standard UK-style academic CV (6 pages) I read somewhere that French CVs are one side. Which might explain why the one of the profs was giggling at my CV in the interview. But hey, I got the job.
Tennie Videler19 February 2010 at 11:16 AM
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Hi Blanka, the Vitae website has a section on working abroad with a daughter page for practicalities: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/194271/Practicalities-of-living-abroad.html but it doesn't specifically give information on CVs. I was going to recommend Euraxess but Hannah beat me to it. I googled 'European CVs' and found this American looking site: http://www.jobera.com/job-resumes-cvs/international-resumes-cvs/international-cvs-resumes.htm although this seems to contradict Hannah’s finding that French CVs are shorter. I think Europass http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/hornav/Introduction.csp may be a bit too low level for you, although it claims to be for any age or level of education. Good luck and I'd love to hear how you get on! Tennie
Matthew Salois25 February 2010 at 06:57 PM
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Thanks Tennie for all the great websites I can add to my favourites folder! In the US, www.academickeys.com is a great website. In addition to job openings in higher education and research, there are plenty of career resources available. Also, I may be pointing out the obvious, but what about www.monster.com? There are several region specific sites such as www.monster.ac.uk -- or is even mentioning this site bad form?