• Get ready for your career in science
• You and the job you want
• Employers and the labour market
• Practical Skills to Find Work
• Useful Resources
  • Additional support (mentoring, career counselling, helpful others)
  • Accepting job offers
  • Performance as a Newcomer
  • Useful websites
    • Job search databases
    • World of work
    • Discipline associations
    • Education and training
    • Information from the Faculty of Science
  • Tips for managing your career

Useful Resources

Useful websites

Helpful information sites - Discipline specific

Professional Associations or organisations formed to exchange information on discipline field can often provide useful information to new professionals, including access to resources for career development)

Australian Academy of Science
 Australian Academy of Science news and articles.

Australian Society of Plant Scientists
Website for plant scientists.

Statistical Science Web: Employment
Website or statistical scientists and includes links to job information.

Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Society provides resources for professionals in ICT.

Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers
Association for Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers.

Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Site includes information on government funded workshops, seminars.

Australian Astronomy
(information site for Astronomical Society of Australia)
 
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Provides information on the observatories in Australia)

Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics
Located at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash, provides links to seminars, local and international job opportunities, research opportunities as well as information for current students

Spatial Science Institute
National professional association representing members of the spatial information industry.

Australian Institute of Physics
Promote physics – includes job listing or members.

Australian Mathematical Society
Includes free access to job listings, extensive links to employer websites, profiles of mathematics graduates in the workforce and details of conferences and seminars as well as generic articles on mathematics in society.

Australian Society for Medical research
Includes page for students.

Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc.
Information on what is happening in chemistry in Australia.

Biotechnology Australia
Government website with directory on government and industry research.

Australia's Biotechnology Organisation
Industry website for biosciences.