The following list reflects some of the professional associations that a student may want to consult for career advice, work search assistance and labour market information. There might also be volunteer and/or conference opportunities, either locally or distance, available for students.
Directories are databases or collections of links to companies and professional organizations that operate in a specific industry or sector. Directories can help you identify organizations that operate in your area of study and directories may be found on professional association pages that include member companies or sponsors.
- American Crystallographic Association
- American Institute of Physics
- American Physical Society
- AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing
- Canadian Acoustical Association
- Canadian Association of Physicists
- Canadian Astronomical Society
- Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
- Canadian Science Writers and Communicators of Canada
- Canadian Society of Rheology
- Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
- International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF)
- Nano Ontario
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Optica (US)
- Photons Canada
- Society of Physics Students
Depending on the time and effort that the professional association has put into developing its career information, an association’s website can include the following information::
- How to join the professional association, especially as a student member
- Information about certification and licensing
- Access to professional events
- Contact information to find a mentor, or a graduate advisor, or to set up an information interview
- Niche job boards that are relevant to the profession - job boards that are password protected cannot be scraped by Indeed or LinkedIn.