Physics graduates have a strong foundation in problem-solving, critical thinking, and quantitative analysis, equipping them for a diverse range of career paths. This career community offers resources and support to help you explore potential career options, get experience through research and internships, and develop essential job-seeking skills such as resume building. To dive deeper into your career goal or discuss specific opportunities, schedule an appointment with Career Services.
Resources
Exploration
- What Can I Do with this Major? This tool will help you explore career options and strategies related to academic programs. When viewing a major/area of study, you can see typical career areas, types of jobs and employers, and strategies to prepare yourself for those career paths.
- “What are you going to do with a Physics degree?” This guide provides a succinct overview of some common industries of physics graduates and provides talking points to answer the question, “What are you going to do with your physics degree?”
- Skills Developed from Your Degree in Physics: This guide provides an overview of some of the top skills that you are developing while as an undergraduate physics student. Use this to help articulate your talents in an interview, on a resume, or in a cover letter.
- Who has Hired Physics Bachelors by State – American Institute of Physics: Use this interactive dashboard to view examples of companies that have hired undergraduate physics students.
Resumes
- Resume Virtual Workshop: In this virtual workshop, you’ll have an opportunity to learn the basics as well as advanced strategies for creating resumes that meet your needs.
- Downloadable Resume Samples: These samples were created using coursework and experience from the Boise State Department of Physics. Download any (or all) of these samples to your Google Drive and use them to craft your resume.
Research and Internships
- How to Become an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Physics Department: Being a research assistant can be a valuable experience for an undergraduate student. Use this resource to help you reach out to a professor about conducting research.
- How to Find a Physics Internship: Are you interested in an internship but don’t know where to start? Use this guide to generate ideas and action steps to help you secure your internship in physics.
- Past Internship Opportunities: This is a list of a few previous internships that have been available to undergraduate Physics students. Although these aren’t currently posted, use these to potentially explore different internship opportunities in the future and help determine areas of interest.
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs): REUs are paid summer internships funded by the National Science Foundation.
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Internships: Idaho National Lab has several paid internships across several categories including environmental safety, high performance computing, nuclear fuels, and more.