Postdoctoral Scholars
Career and Professional Development
Career Guides and Funding Resources
University of California Council of Postdoctoral Scholars (UCCPS)
UCSB Industry Workshops for Engineering and Sciences
Career and Professional Development
UCSB Society of Postdoctoral Scholars (SoPS)
The University of California, Santa Barbara's Society of Postdoctoral Scholars (SoPS) is a volunteer organization dedicated to enhancing the postdoctoral experience at UCSB. By providing resources to aid postdoctoral scholars with their professional and personal development we hope to create a vibrant community of scholars. We provide information and support on a range of topics including (but not limited to) career advancement, financial support, research development and childcare and family issues. We hope you will join us in building a community of postdoctoral scholars at UCSB who can benefit from each others’ knowledge, experiences and expertise. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Barbara K. Ige, Graduate Division, barbara.ige@graddiv.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-4652.
UCSB SoPS Career Guides and Funding Resources helpful guide of Web site listings not listed here
National Postdoc Association (NPA)
- This professional organization focuses on issues that face postdocs nation wide. It has made significant gains for postdocs in the US. UCSB is a sustaining member and UCSB postdocs are entitled to access NPA news and Web site content. You will need a UCSB.edu email address to access the members’ only pages.
- NPA Career Resources
University of California Council of Postdoctoral Scholars
The UCCPS is dedicated to enhancing the postdoc experience within the UC system. Postdocs from each of the ten UC campuses meet quarterly to share resources for postdocs and to collaborate effectively with UC administration and faculty.
UCSB Industry Workshops
College of Engineering and the Sciences: Industry Employment Information Sessions
Excellent Virtual Career Centers
- AAAS The Academic Scientists' Tookkit (from getting hired and funded to managing your lab and teaching)
- UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development
- Stanford Career Cevelopment Center
- UC Davis Internship and Career Center
- UC Berkeley Career Center Academic Job Search
Job Sites
- Academic Positions Network
- Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), employment at
- AAAS Grants Net
- BioSpace
- Center for Disease Control, employment at
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Genome Jobs
- Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
- Monster Board MedSearch
- National Institutes of Health, employment at
- National Science Foundation, employment at
- NatureJobs
- Pathways to Science portal to postdoc positions
- Physics Today (science, engineering, and computing jobs)
- Tiny Tech Jobs (jobs using tiny technology, including careers in MEMS, nanotechnology, microtechnology, biotechnology, and information technology)
Interviewing Tips
- Questions to Ask (and be Prepared to Answer) During an Academic Interview. Professor Kathryn L. Cottingham, Dartmouth College
- Stanford University -- Prepare for the Job Search "Interviewing"
- Illegal Interview Questions
Faculty Job Tips
- How to Get a Faculty Job, John Boothroyd, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University