CAPES Links

Career Advancement for Scientists and Engineers (CAPES) Links

From the Peter Fiske CAPES talk on 2009/01/23

Some of the personal assessment instruments mentioned by Peter are

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MTBI) personality inventory (official site of the Myers and Briggs Foundation)
Strong Interest Inventory
Career Beliefs Inventory
Skills and Values Card Sorts

Other sites that he mentioned in his talk are

The results of the postdoc survey by Sigma Xi can be found at http://postdoc.sigmaxi.org/results/
A lot of great big-picture career advice can be found at http://www.phds.org/
The Presidential Management Fellows site is https://www.pmf.opm.gov/
Science magazine's science careers website is http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/. Be sure to search the site's magazine for articles by Peter Fiske!

-- jam99 on 2009/01/26

From the Julia Hsu CAPES talk on 2008/11/13

The website of the Sandia National Labs is http://www.sandia.gov/. The Sandia postdoctoral programs web site is here and the Truman Felowship web site is here.

If you are looking for a postdoctoral position at national laboratory in the U.S., you should know that the U.S. National Academies administers a postdoctoral fellowship program for the national labs. The program is the National Research Council Research Associateships Program. The web site is http://www7.nationalacademies.org/rap/.

-- jam99 on 2009/01/26