Industrial jobs

As the twentieth century came to a close, the job market for computational chemists had recovered from the 1992-1994 debacle. In fact, demand for computational chemists leaped to new highs each year in the second half of the 1990s [135]. Most of the new jobs were in industry, and most of these industrial jobs were at pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical companies. As we noted at the beginning of this chapter, in 1960 there were essentially no computational chemists in industry. But 40 years later, perhaps well over half of all computational chemists were working in pharmaceutical laboratories. The outlook for computational chemistry is therefore very much linked to the health of the pharmaceutical industry itself. Forces that adversely affect pharmaceutical companies will have a negative effect on the scientists who work there as well as at auxiliary companies such as software vendors that develop programs and databases for use in drug discovery and development. 

According to Rossiter (1982), young white male scientists were seen as the salvation of the scientific enterprise in the 1920s and 1930s. She asserts that white women, African Americans, and Jewish scientists seeking industrial jobs were the victims of highly discriminatory employment practices. Rossiter contends that even when the advertisement did not include the phrase male Christians only it was common knowledge that only they need apply. 

In 1951,1 accepted an industrial job at My (white) supervisor had only ahigh school education. 

Because my graduate study was supported by a fellowship, one condition was that I pursue an academic career. When I got to4 an historically black college), 1 realized immediately that I didn t want to be there. The politics and the environment were not good for me. So, I applied for an industrial job and received an offer. But my wife wasn t ready to move. Because my wife had supported me during my doctoral studies, she felt that it was time for me to be supportive of her while she gained some valuable career experience for a year or two. She held an administrative position on campus. My wife said that she wasn t ready to run from something. She wanted to run to something. So, we stayed another year. Then 1 took the job in industry. 

ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB, there are literally thousands of career-related websites. Some of these sites offer how-to advice about landing a job. Others offer a database of job listings that can be searched by region, industry, job type, salary, position, job title, or almost any other criteria. There are also resume databases allowing applicants to post their resume in hopes of it being read by a recruiter. If you need assistance creating your resume, there are professional resume writers who you can hire directly off the Web, many of whom also have informative websites of interest to job seekers. 

In general, the need of workers will increase considerably in the service trade. Also the proportion of clerical personnel in the labor force will grow, whereas the decrease in the number of industrial jobs - a general trend in many western countries - has been predicted to continue. In Finland, the only growing sectors of industry are probably metal, chemical and electronics industry. 

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If we ve had a full pool of talent for 20 years, then a snapshot survey should show women at all levels of industrial jobs today. Even with some attrition, we should see women attaining the upper echelons of career paths, whether that is in management or in the technical track. 

Phone 480-857-7400 Web Address www.coatingsjobs.com CoatingsJobs.com connects coatings industry job seekers and employers. The website offers job postings, resume postings, information for job seekers and an employment newsletter. 

Shortt, M., Revenues Decline, Productivity Rises in Rapid Prototyping Industry, Job Shop Tech., May 2003. 

The first industrial jobs for computational chemists opened in the early 1960s when such scientists were usually called theoretical chemists or physical chemists. Those early pioneers not only had to prove themselves, they had to prove a whole new approach to answering questions in science, that is, computationally. Human nature being what it is, traditional (experimental) chemists reacted in different ways to computational chemistry some were curious (some of whom even tried their own hand at calculations but often found the early technology—computer punch cards—too bothersome), some were disinterested, and some felt their prerogatives and perquisites were threatened. At the pharmaceutical companies, many of the medicinal chemists (who far outnumbered the computational chemists) were skeptical, if not resentful, of the upstarts." Because of finite resources, one more person hired as a physical (or analytical) chemist often mean one less organic chemist would be hired. 

The modest peak at 1988 in Figure 1 was due in part to hiring by industry. And most of the growth since 1995 has been in industrial jobs. The rising demand for computational chemists reached a new high in 2000 when about three-quarters of the demand came from industry, principally pharmaceutical and biotechnology. In 2001, hiring by industry slowed a bit, which was offset by an increase in advertised academic positions. A few of the latter were for tenure-track faculty, but most of them were only postdoctoral positions, which tend to be short lived. 

Figure 4 Running summations of the number of industrial jobs and the number of academic jobs for scientists in the field of computational chemistry advertised in C EN.

The chemical industry has come to realize that universities cannot turn out graduates adequately educated in the fundamentals of science or engineering and at the same time trained to step immediately into any one of many specialized industrial jobs. This is true of literature chemists as well as other kinds of chemists. Most of the larger industrial concerns have also come to realize the value of a carefully planned program for the induction, the orientation, and the special training required to fit the new employee to his highly specialized job. 

Since his lack of financial funds prevented his entering upon an academic career, Mittasch decided to accept an industrial job. After one year s work in a small metallurgical company, new possibilities opened for him, when upon Bodenstein s recommendations, the Badische Anilin und Sodafabrik in Ludwigshafen am Rhein offered him a position in their laboratories. 

In addition to pharmaceutical companies, scientific societies and other organizations also maintain job banks (Table 7-3). The American Chemical Society and the Society for Chemical Industry (ci.mond.org in Table 7-3) list chemists positions exclusively, as does ChemWeb. Although the last two organizations are British in origin, their job banks include positions in North America. In the ChemWeb and Society for Chemical Industry job banks listings are not restricted to pharmaceutical or even industrial jobs academic and other positions are also included. Other job banks specializing in scientists positions are also tabulated. 

In the late I960 s the expansion of the educational system essentially stopped. Since even graduates were overqualified for the industrial job market, there was practically no industrial opportunity for people with qualifications equivalent to a PhD. Young graduates hired by universities from 1970 onwards had no future. Indeed, hiring itself has come to a stop, since previously hired people cling to the available positions. 

Turner, A. N and Lawrence, P. R. (1965), Industrial Jobs and the Worker An Investigation of Response to Task Attributes, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston. 

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