Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Chemjobber C&EN index: 2/16/09

Industrial (non-academic, non-governmental) positions:
Total number of ads: 1
- Postdocs: 0
- Permanent positions: 1
- Ratio of US/non-US: 1/0
Area: 25

Governmental positions (US and others):
Total number of ads: 0
- Postdocs: 0
- Permanent positions: 0
- Ratio of US/non-US: 0/0
Area: 0

Academic positions:
Total number of ads: 10
- Postdocs: 2+
- Tenure-track faculty: 7
- Temporary faculty: 1
- Lecturer positions: 1
- Staff positions: 1
- Ratio of US/non-US positions: 10/2
- Area (square cm): 659

Industrial positions, where are you?: Only one industrial position this past week with Lycera, for a senior-level medicinal chemist. Come on, come on, come on, pick back up!

Nice postdoctoral and temporary staff positions: P. Andrew Evans is looking for a postdoc! That's a nice position, especially for those US postdocs looking for overseas experience. BU's looking for a postdoc in their library center and Pitt has an "assistant or associate director" position in their "center for chemical methodologies and library development". Might be a nice place for people to get experience while riding out this storm...

Small college of the week: Saddleback College (student population 22,998, SA-LUTE!) in Mission Viejo, CA (basically the heart of Orange County) is looking for a tenure-track gen chem professor! If you like life in SoCal, this position might be for you!

5 comments:

  1. I don't get CEN (not an ACS member), but how much experience are Lycera after? Seems even very junior chemistry positions over there in the US need PhDs and several years experience.

    S

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  2. They're after someone with quite a bit of experience: "Lycera Corporation... is seeking a Ph.D. medicinal chemist with 7-12 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry to initiate and lead an exciting new discovery project."

    While the job market is not great, I would argue that there are more positions for the BS/MS-level than there are at the PhD level. At the moment, I think it is exactly the folks with 7-12 years of experience at the PhD level that are getting hit the hardest.

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  3. P.S. Thanks for commenting, S!

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  4. What a change from when I was job hunting at the end of my postdoc last summer...there were more ads than I could deal with. Same with online. Now when I flip through C&EN there are maybe 10 ads TOTAL...

    Glad I finished up and got my job when I did...

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