A great resource for career information for chemists is found on the American Chemical Society website www.acs.org Click on Careers and find:
Along with information about salaries, career development, and professional advancement.
Cen-chemjobs.org - Connects job
seekers and employers online.
Advance Career Tools -
Career coaching and comprehensive articles
Petroleum Research Fund - Grants for fundamental research in chemistry,
earth sciences, chemical engineering, and related fields
Jobs at ACS - Join the staff that supports the largest scientific
society in the world
Employment opportunities for BA/BS chemists are generally in private industry,
government, and education. Fortunately, the applicability of a background in Chemistry
is vast, resulting in myriad fields in which one may work. Some examples
of these industrial fields and possible jobs are:
- Agricultural Chemistry (testing the toxicity of herbicides at DuPont)
- Biotechnology (working with a team to develop microbial processes to clean up environmental
pollution)
- Chemical Information (working as a scientific librarian or
market researcher at a large manufacturing company, or for a company that
publishes technical literature or journals)
- Environmental Chemistry (designing
pollution abatement systems)
- Hazardous Waste Management (field sampling and testing for underground storage tank leakage at a
remediation site)
- Material Science (developing new reinforced ceramics for aerospace applications or new Lycra
spandex knits for sportswear)
- Medicinal Chemistry (carrying out basic research formulating
drugs to treat patients with very rare disorders)
- Oil and Petroleum (working as a chemist at Amoco
“fingerprinting” oil leaked in a spill; developing catalysts to improve
petroleum fractionation processes).
- Polymer Chemistry (developing polymers such as the one
used in transdermal patches like the nicotine patch).
- Sales/Marketing (working as a sales representative for
Hewlett-Packard selling chromatographic instrumentation, or carrying out
market research for a chemical supply company such as J.T. Baker.)
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There are also various paths that one may follow to prepare for a career
teaching chemistry at the middle or high school level. You may enjoy:
Looking for a job after graduation? Contact Robin Rarick to be added
to a special email list for UA Chemistry majors searching for jobs in
industry or in town. You can receive job postings via email that come into
Chemistry from local companies looking for recent to soon-to-be
graduates at the BA/BS level.
Also try the chemistry job search engine (Job Resource Center) powered by AfterCollegeTM
The University of Arizona has a
Career Services
office to help you with all aspects of preparing for a career. The staff
at Career Services assists students with:
- the career planning process - exploring yourself, exploring the work
world, making decisions and setting goals, planning your education,
obtaining career experience, conducting your job search or plan for
graduate school
- searching for internships, co-ops, and career experience
- part-time and full-time jobs; work study positions, and volunteer
opportunities at UA, in Tucson, and around the U.S.
- individual career counseling
- the office has a career information center library and computer lab,
occupation information, internship directories, graduate program
information, tip sheets on career and job search topics
- registration for on-campus interviewing, interviewing skills, resume
writing
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