Thursday, August 30, 2012

Daily Pump Trap: 8/30/12 edition

Good morning! Between August 28 and August 29, there were 16 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 6 (38%) are academically connected.

Columbia, MD: Shimadzu is looking for a B.S. chemist to be an elemental spectroscopist.

Toledo, OH: Betco (a cleaning formulations company) wants to hire a B.S. chemist to be a product development chemist.

Iselin, NJ: Know TEM/SEM? Got a B.S. in chemistry? BASF would like to hire you.

Champaign, IL: Eastman Chemical Company is looking for a B.S./M.S. analytical chemist (GC, GC/MS, LC). Looks to be fermentation-related?

A broader look: Monster, Careerbuilder, Indeed and USAjobs.gov show (respectively) 229, 824, 2,730 and 16 positions for the search term "chemist." 

3 comments:

  1. Interesting; Eastman doesn't list a Champaign site...

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    1. From the Eastman website:

      Analytical Chemist-00003132
      Description
      This position is located in Champaign, IL.

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    2. I went to grad school at UIUC, and that's news to me too. If you like bars full of puking undergrads, stores that sell nothing but T-shirts and bongs, and money-grubbing local cops who do nothing but give out parking tickets, you'll love living in Champaign!

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