Career Planning

This issue, a spotlight on professional development, including getting recruiters' attention, building a career in science policy, discovering your career path, and more.

Employers and engineers: Make connections at the upcoming Virtual Career Fair, whether you're looking for a job or hiring.

Chemical engineers of all levels can make job connections and explore options at the virtual career fair this fall.

Hear from the Global Innovation Leader of Dow Life Sciences and learn about her career and the advice she offers to early-career professionals.

Get advice on what it takes to build a successful chemical engineering career, what potential chemical engineer students need to know, and more.

Learning how to use a performance review — whether positive or negative — is a smart way to advance your career.

Understand how recruiters work and how you can best take advantage of their services as part of your job search with these tips.

This issue, get tips to boost your career with publishing opportunities, learn methodologies for heat transfer design of agitated tanks, assess control systems’ cybersecurity risk, and much more.

Approach your job search with the logic of an engineer instead of treating it like a pure numbers game. Get tips here to home in on jobs and land job interviews.

This month, what hiring managers are looking for from chemical engineers, building a stronger work environment through psychological safety, an Annual Meeting preview, and more.

Hear from Ben what chemical engineering means to him, what skills he thinks an engineer should possess, and understand how mentorship has been important to his career.

Teni Butler has served as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) practitioner and has past experience supporting chemical manufacturing/production and in customer facing technical sales.

Did the Great Resignation affect chemical engineers? How has the median income of chemical engineers changed? Find out answers to these question and more.

Get tips and strategies for preparing for or facing a layoff, and ideas to make a job search easier and more effective.

Find internships, connect with new chemical engineering career opportunities and paths, access member-only benefits for your job search, and more.

Chemical engineers are a good fit for product development careers because they are analytical thinkers and problem solvers. But learn what else chemical engineers need to work in product development.

Bioengineering & Translational Medicine, a premier journal in bioengineering and related fields, seeks a new editor-in-chief with a vision that will build on the journal's accomplishments.

Chemical engineers work in a range of R&D jobs spanning from positions with established corporations, in universities, and at startups, and each of these work environments comes with certain expectations and demands.

Wondering what you can do with a chemical engineering degree? Learn about chemical engineers’ careers in process engineering and design engineering, and stay tuned for more career options in the series.

Worried about the questions you'll be asked? How about the questions you should ask the interviewer? Read on for advice for chemical engineers.

Career Discovery is designed to help chemical engineers pursue and build a career that best fits their evolving talents and interests.

Having a plan and knowing what you want to accomplish are key to a great résumé. Read further for tips for building a plan that can help get the chemical engineering job you want.

Longtime columnist Loraine Kasprzak moves on to other career goals of her own, but she leaves us with some of her very best advice from over the years.

A strong and complete LinkedIn profile will help you stand out among the crowd. Use these tips to increase your visibility.

Has the pandemic caused a career setback or undesirable job situation? Regroup and rebuild with these career tips to turn a seeming roadblock into an opportunity.

Need to find a way to spend more time away from work and your devices? Use these tips to set boundaries and create healthier habits.

After almost ten years of distinguished service, Michael P. Harold will be stepping down as Editor of the AIChE Journal.

A group of women biomedical engineering faculty shared their 2020 experiences to create rules to help you ease job stress during the pandemic.

Whether you're looking to move into management in your current company, or seeking a new job in management, these tips can help you chart a course.

Reframe your job search based on what a potential employer needs and how you can fulfill that need. Check out these six tips for highlighting your value.

Apply your chemical engineering skills to the job search with these practical tips for finding a new job in the era of COVID-19.  

If working from home with kids is wearing you down, try these tips to keep the kids happier and you more productive. 

The AIChE's Virtual Local Section (VLS) is hosting an interactive discussion to seek AIChE member input about our profession's future this month. Non-VLS members welcome.

Many of us find ourselves in uncertain territory, furloughed, or even laid off. After you've taken a pause to collect yourself, take a look at these tips to help plan your next career move.

From our archives, a great piece that can help you find work-life balance while working remotely. 

Chemical engineers have many career paths available to them. Study your options to decide what's right for you.

Being aware of potential drawbacks of working remotely can help you reap its many benefits. Consider these points for optimal work-life balance.

An undergraduate degree in chemical engineering offers many options, from traditional engineering jobs to less conventional choices to graduate school.

Just because layoffs happens to most people at some point doesn't make it easy when it happens to you. But these tips can help you find your footing more quickly.

Have good advice to share? Want to see what other chemical engineers and chemical engineering students are up to? Check out the latest discussions.

Considering medical school? A chemical engineer's training provides a valuable foundation for understanding medicine.

How fast you advance in your career often relies on how well you negotiate. Hone your skills with these negotiating tips.

These tips will help you find and profit from experiences that are important for making career decisions and for building a career in chemical engineering or biological engineering.

Having a clear definition of what success means to you will help you get the most satisfaction from your career.

Asking for help has benefits beyond simply accomplishing the task at hand. Learning to accept help and delegate are important for success in work and life.

Cari Parker of Eastman Chemical Company shares lessons from her own career and gives advice to young chemical engineers building their own careers.

Startups are becoming more prominent in the chemical process industries (CPI).

Wondering what others are talking about? Check out the latest technical and career discussions on AIChE Engage.

Chemical engineering professionals are increasingly pursuing advanced degrees, but it's not necessary to go directly into a grad program after earning a bachelor's.

Wondering what others are talking about? Check out the latest technical and career discussions on AIChE Engage.

Hear how Case Western's AIChE Student Chapter is helping its members get involved with undergraduate research and connect with industry.

AIChE leaders share their thoughts on mentorship and the skills necessary to stay relevant.