New career planning brochure available

Abstract

Undergraduate majors in chemistry, biochemistry, and related disciplines will have some extra help mapping out their careers, thanks a new American Chemical Society brochure, Planning for a Career in Industry. Developed by the ACS Committee on Professional Training (CPT) and ACS Corporation Associates, brochure assumes that you have chosen a major in chemistry or biochemistry and are thinking seriously of getting a job in industry after graduation. The range of fields suggested in the brochure includes materials science, polymers, biochemistry and molecular biology, biotechnology, environmental chemistry, and pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry, as well as the more traditional subdisciplines of organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry. It is intended give you some ideas about this range of career possibilities, the brochure continues, and to make suggestions about what you should be doing now prepare for your career, and point out some of the many resources that ar...