Crossing frontiers: mobility between countries and sectors
Moving between countries [1]
European Commission Researchers’ Mobility Portal [8]
All disciplines. Job offers. Fellowships and Grant information. Practical Info and Assistance.
EMBO Life Sciences Mobility Portal [9]
Fellowships and Grants. Job vacancies. Funding deadlines by country. FP7 funding at a glance. Mobility stories, etc.
ELSO Career Development Committee pages [10]
Funding, mentoring, student and postdoc organisations, advice for junior PIs, women in science, database of expert women.
Fogarty International Center Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences [11]
Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences: Grants and Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers.
ERA-MORE European Network of Mobility Centres [12]
Advice and assistance for researchers moving country with 200 centres in 32 countries.
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HFSP: Cross-disciplinary Fellowships [14]
Human Frontier Science Program Research Grants and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships.
HFSP Journal [15]
Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences.
Chemical Biology Centre, London [16]
Official webpages of a consortium of three of London’s most prestigious research centres: Imperial College London, the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK and The Institute of Cancer Research.
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego [17]
The CTBP encompasses a broad spectrum of research and training activities at the forefront of the biology-physics interface.
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Science Careers [19]
Jobs. Funding. Meetings and events. Career Development advice and articles.
Alternative Careers [20]
Hundreds of case studies of scientists who have moved into alternative jobs.
Naturejobs.com [21]
Career magazine. Career snapshots. Careers fairs, etc.
ELSO Career events [22]
Events at the annual meeting.
Society for Experimental Biology [23]
Training and education workshops for academics and early-career scientists. Career management and development for early-career scientists.
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Careers Gateway [25]
Job applications, self-assessment, CVs, letters of application.
EMBO Women in Science [26]
Information and support from EMBO to encourage more women in science.
American Society for Cell Biology Career Pages [27]
Resources to assist career development.
ELSO Database of Expert Women in the Molecular Life Sciences [28]
Online database of women working in the molecular life sciences in Europe or who are European.
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How to craft a winning résumé [30] or
Bradley CVs [32]
CV tips, examples, cover letters, interview advice, etc.
Temporary and contract recruitment [33]
Good tips on preparing cvs, interview techniques, sample questions.
Alec.co.uk [34]
CVs, résumés, cover letters, interviews, psychometric tests, career assessment.
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The Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellowships [36]
A scheme for postdoctoral scientists who have recently decided to recommence a scientific research career after a break of at least two years.
The Daphne Jackson Trust [37]
Enables scientists, engineers and IT specialists to return to work after career breaks.
Institute of Physics: Career Breaks web pages [38]
Surveys, case studies, help, links.
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ELSO Career Development Committee [40].
Free sites
Academic jobs EU.com [41]
A website for academic and research jobs in Europe.
Academic Job Exchange Board [42]
The electronic job exchange board of the associations of assistants and doctoral students of the technological institutes of Zurich (AVETH) and Lausanne (ACIDE).
Association Bernard Gregory [43]
The Association Bernard Gregory promotes the value of training through research to the non-academic world.
Career e-volution [44]
The British Biochemical Society's free jobs site for life scientists worldwide.
jobs.ac.uk [45]
Jobs in research, science and academic professions in the UK.
science-jobs-DE [46]
Job offerings by scientists for job seeking scientists.
TalentScotland [47]
Life Science jobs in Scotland, website managed and funded by Scottish Enterprise.
The RNA Society Employment and Careers page [48]
Employment opportunities listed by The RNA Society.
Commercial sites
BCEjobs.nl [49]
Advertises vacancies at companies and the CVs of job-seekers in the life science sector in the Netherlands. Also has labour market news articles.
Naturejobs [50] (Worldwide).
NewScientist Jobs [51] (Worldwide).
Sciencecareers [52] (Worldwide)
Institute sites
Many institutes post their job offers. For example, EMBL Job Vacancies [53] (Heidelberg, Grenoble, Hamburg, Hinxton, Monterotondo).
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