"Science Societies: A Source Of Leads For The Job Hunter" The Scientist, Dec. 11, 1989, page 20) includes an observation containing a quotation, both presenting an incorrect impression about the Placement Services of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the Society for Neuroscience (SN). I refer to this: ". . . they're `not very useful for people who want to work for large companies, like Abbott Labs, Merck, and Du Pont . . .' because few turn to science-so

Demand for biologists in disciplines represented by member societies of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), especially at the postdoctoral training/research associate level, shows strong indications of exceeding the supply significantly. A combination of increasing numbers of positions and decreasing output from universities appears to be at work here; growth in size and number of biotechnology companies and decline in numbers of appropriate age groups which