#29 – Chemjobber: The chemical job market, effects of COVID, chemistry blogging, & connecting with an audience

Molecular Podcasting with Darren Lipomi

In this conversation, I sat down with the enigmatic Chemjobber, one of chemistry's most prolific bloggers and commentators. Since 2008, CJ has amplified job postings to his readers and twitter followers, identified trends in the chemical job market, and provided commentary on a range of practical issues of interest to chemists and chemical engineers. He has nearly 30 thousand followers on Twitter and is the first resource to whom all it many of us in chemistry or chemistry-adjacent fields turned when we have found ourselves unemployed or looking for a new position. Since 2017, he has had a monthly column in Chemical and Engineering News, the primary trade publication of the American Chemical Society. I know I share the widely held sentiment that Chemjobber provides an enormous value to the community and does essentially all of it on his own time.