<p>i'm about to graduate and would like to get a phd in cognitive/behavioral neuroscience.</p>
<p>i have some research experience in both bio and psych labs and would like to get more experience while i take a year or two off before applying to grad school.</p>
<p>there arent really any jobs in my university so im expecting having to look more broadly to find a job in research. since visiting each school's hr website isn't exactly efficient, does anyone know of a site that has at least multiple school's openings? im not expecting a huge comprehensive classifieds but anything helps.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, many of the career sites out there focus on people further on in their career or people with very specific, hard to find, skillsets. My suggestion is to check out craigslist listings. I found both of my industry jobs through that. </p>
<p>Another suggestion that I have, is, if your set on academic jobs, contact the people in the labs that you are interested in. I know you have already submitted your cv to hr but that is, as you pointed out, inefficient. If the people in the lab that are hiring know your name and have had a 3 minute conversation with you, they will seek your resume out of the stack of printed applications.</p>
<p>thanks, belevitt.</p>
<p>i actually had contacted two of my top choices for labs and they both said that <em>if</em>/when there are openings, they would be posted on the hr site; i guess they just dont want to accept any prospective employee before comparing a whole pool of applicants.</p>
<p>Also, talk to your professors. They may know of a colleague who could use a pair of hands or have other ideas to offer.</p>
<p>Actually, monster.com does have many research tech/entry level lab tech jobs. You can find them by searching for them. It may help if you seek out institutions that have large cognitive psych departments because then they will have more jobs posted through hr. </p>
<p>The upside to going through hr through the institution is that you can easily apply to multiple jobs within the institution at once.</p>
<p>thanks a lot, EvoViro and creolan–</p>
<p>i know i’ve exhausted my school’s neuro and psych departments for jobs but i didnt even consider asking my professors for referrals. and wow. no monster.com queries came up in google; i would have imagined at least one would be there which would lead me to the paper trail of other job postings.</p>
<p>I actually had luck with craigslist. I found my current position through it and generally had more feedback than sites like monster.com.</p>
<p>Look up who receives NIH/NIMH grants as well and try contacting those researchers!</p>