Placement

The University of Trento offers a job placement service aimed at improving the possibility to match the industry’s needs and the young university graduates.

This service includes:

• the possibility for industries to advertise internships or other type of contracts.
• the access to a graduates' database, containing students' personal data and academic records.
• the availability of industry brochures, yearbooks and advertisements.

Further information is available here.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo aims to provide opportunities for students willing to enter the work environment, through the allocation of study grants to cover business internships abroad. The stay usually lasts for several months (to be decided on a case by case basis).

The following can participate in this programme:

• students enrolled in the penultimate year(minimum) of their degree, up to age 28 (inclusive), and those engaged in any working activity, or enrolled in a postgraduate course.
• graduates who are 28, but who have not yet started working.

The Leonardo grant lasts between 12 and 36 weeks. It provides a grant of up 120 to 200 euro per week and also includes a refund of travel expenses. The destinations available are specified within the bulletin published annually.

To participate in the selection for the study grants, newly graduated and current students must present a work proposal, attached to their application form, in which the grant holder describes the contents of the internship that he/she would like to carry out. The proposal also should specify the details of the project.

The industry provides the grant holder with a tutor who facilitates his/her insertion in the business and an adequate professional development.

Further information is available here.

Job positions

• Job opening at Deutsche Telecom (» more info)
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships (» more info)
• Exciting postdoctoral opportunities in Singapore (» more info)
• Postdoctoral fellowships opportunities (» more info)
• Postdoctoral positions at Samsi (» more info)
• Postdoctoral Fellowships offered at the ICGEB Laboratories in Trieste (Italy) in molecular biology and biotechnology (» more info)
• Computer Research Association (CRA) Job Announcements (» more info)

Job counseling

• How to Develop Opportunities Through Networking (» more info)
• The Basics of Cover Letter Writing (» more info)
• From C.V. to Resume (» more info)
• The Basics of Science C.V.'s (» more info)
• Informational Interviewing (» more info)
• Negotiating Salary in the Nonacademic World (» more info)
• MIT careers office (» more info)
• Expertise in labour mobility. ELM's tools and services facilitate both organisations and individuals to become an integral part of the global workplace (» more info)

Post-doctoral Web sites

• A site to help students to prepare for the changing demands of today.s job market and to provide a voice for early career scientists (» more info)
• The first niche recruiting channel and marketplace to bring together recent Ph.D.s, professors, research institutions and other employers to find a good match (» more info)
• Italian postdoctoral and postdoctoral researcher website (» more info)
• The European Commission.s information service on European Research and Innovation activities (» more info)
• Web Guide is to provide examples of "best practices" that will help postdocs, postdoc advisers, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies as they explore ways to enhance the postdoctoral experience for scientists and engineers (» more info)
• A jobs site exclusively listing postdoctoral research posts (» more info)
• The council for postgraduate Students and junior researchers in Europe (» more info)
• A list of web sites dedicated to find job positions in bioinformatics (» more info)

European Researcher's Mobility portal

The European Commission launched on 10 July 2003 a new web portal to create a more favourable environment for the career development of researchers in the European Research Area, by providing them with the necessary structured information.

The new European Researcher's Mobility portal provides links to hundreds of research organisations offering grants, fellowships, training opportunities and job openings across Europe and internationally. It also allows researchers to post their CVs and research organisations to publish their vacancies - all free of charge.

The portal aims to become a one-stop shop for researchers seeking to advance their careers and personal development by moving to other countries. In addition to the information on training and jobs it provides, the portal contains a wealth of practical information on living, working and relaxing in the 33 European countries involved.

The European Researcher's Mobility portal is a unique web resource because it overcomes a recognised obstacle in the cross-border mobility of researchers: a lack of information on available opportunities. By making the research opportunities in Europe more visible, the European Commission hopes that the portal will help enhance the attractiveness of the EU for research talent from all over the world.

The portal comes in the wider context of the Commission's human resources measures aimed at removing obstacles to mobility and helphing Europe develop its brainpower.

» European Researcher's Mobility portal

Job resources on-line

• Academic360.com is a meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter. It includes links to faculty, staff, and administrative announcements and is not restricted to teaching positions (» more info)
• List of sites with Nonacademic Careers for Doctorate Students (» more info)
• Calculates salary range by job title and location (» more info)
• Listing of jobs in science (» more info)
• Science's Next Wave is a weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market (» more info)
• Researcher's Mobility Portal in Europe: career opportunities and relevant information and assistance for researchers (» more info)
• Academic Positions in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Pacific (» more info)
• The Marie Curie Fellowship Association is the Association of scientists who where awarded a European RTD framework programmes to stimulate the training and mobility of researchers in the European Community (» more info)
• Academic job exchange board (» more info)

Further information

You can also find some information on the University website: http://www.unitn.it/en/alumni/placements.htm