Employment Planning Aids is designed to familiarize both the student and the experienced graduate with services, sources of information, and organizations that can supply guidance and advice on selecting, obtaining, and changing careers related to chemistry. (Author/RH)

Describes career opportunities for chemists considering employment areas of opportunity, salaries, college chemistry enrollments, research and development budgets, long term forecasts of supply and demand for chemists. Includes career planning aids, and an employers directory of chemical professions. (DF)

Starting salaries of chemistry personnel in industry, colleges, and universities are discussed. Data are presented from annual salary surveys done by the American Chemical Society's Office of Manpower Studies. (SA)

The demand for chemists in 1980 and the recruitment plans for college campuses are discussed. The employment trends in chemistry and chemical engineering are presented in a data table. (SA)

Reports on the reexamination of the National Science Foundations' data on the study of scientifically trained women in the U.S., published in 1977. Factors that influence success in NSF's retraining programs are analyzed as well as the distribution of jobs in industry for men and women. (SA)

Explains that the High-Technology Recruitment Index, a source of information on employment demand for engineers and scientists, shows a very healthy job market for scientific and technical professionals. This has been the case for almost a year, although a decline in the trend in the near future is presented. (GA)

Reviews the New York Academy of Sciences conference on expanding the role of women in engineering and the sciences, particularly chemistry. (SL)

Recruiting efforts have their roots in the sweeping university expansion program which involves the building of new universities and teaching colleges, and the conversion of many polytechnic institutes to quasi-university rank. (DF)

Described is a catalytic science center designed to incorporate academic and industrial concerns. The center combines educational and research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for the chemical professional. (MA)

Career options for chemists are discussed with emphasis on how to be successful in career development. Information is presented in the form of brief statements from chemistry personnel representing universities, industry, and non-laboratory related businesses. (SA)

Some of the criticisms of results and trends during the first five years of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's antibias regulation of faculty employment are specified. (DT)

The various employment opportunities for the chemistry college graduate are given. Trends show that industry is seeking out rather highly trained graduates. Desirable types of training are suggested. (SA)

Reports on the exchange of chemistry professors between the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Oakwood College in Alabama. Explores the Madison Plan which has a long term goal of working toward educational excellence by taking advantage of the strengths inherent in ethnic diversity. (MVL)

Information is provided on unemployment rate and employment gains of chemical engineers and of professional and technical personnel. Employment trends are mentioned. (DT)

The chances of an employee being relocated are higher in the chemical and plastics industries than in U.S. business as a whole. But the benefits provided by chemical and plastics companies to employees shifted to other locations are generally better than average. (Author/BB)