Academic Employment Initiative (AEI)

Connecting faculty candidates with university recruiters

Summary: The Academic Employment Initiative poster session allows senior graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to showcase their teaching and research goals to university recruiters while networking with faculty and fellow candidates.

When: Monday, September 9, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Where: Sci-Mix, 246th ACS National Meeting, Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana

Information for Candidates

Fall 2013

I thought the AEI was fantastic. I applied to three of the schools that stopped by my poster. All three resulted in onsite interviews and offers!”

The deadline for abstract submittal for the Fall 2013 AEI Poster Session is April 18. Your abstract should be focused on past and/or current research.

Once your abstract has been accepted, you will receive instructions on how to submit your biographical sketch.

Submit your abstract through PACS

Information for Recruiters

AEI is a unique new model for scientific and academic candidates to network [with] employers. Corporate models don’t fit us as well as this does...”

See the 2012 candidates: Biographical sketches and poster abstracts

Faculty recruiters are invited to attend the next AEI Poster Session to be held at the 246th ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, SciMix. Biographical sketch booklets of the 2013 candidates will be available in July 2013.

Please email GradEd@acs.org if a representative from your institution will be attending this session so we can share this information with the job candidates and follow up with you after the event for feedback.