chemistry

[griftymcgrift]

Hi. Im new here.  I've been reading through the threads, though, for about a month. I have a few questions about getting into the business.  I am graduating in May with a bachelors in Biology, and have been really looking into getting into the chemistry dept. at Salem or Hope Creek in NJ. I put my resume in at PSEG.com. I have an uncle who is a supervisor of some sort at Salem, and he threw my name to the chem manager.  the guy said he'd be looking for my name in the resume list.  I also sort of made friends with a procurement manager in one of the two plants and he sent my resume directly to "some people he knows". 

I was wondering if I should be getting my hopes up about anything, or is this a routine thing?  In any other business, this seems as though it would be a good foot in the door. This only happened this week, and I havent heard anything back yet, nor did I expet to this early. There is an outage at Hope Creek in October and at Salem in April.

Also, if I were to enter as a virgin to the field, what pay would I be looking at? 


Thanks everyone

[retired nuke]

Here are a couple of threads that may help you with information:

http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php?topic=14867.0
http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php?topic=22190.0
http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php?topic=10176.0

You may also want to look into Environmental tech - some plants have these.

Chem techs make about the same at most plants as Radiation Protection (RP) techs, Non licensed operarors (NLO / AO). Shift work is common, and training at the plant will be required before they let you touch anything.

Most utilities hire via online human resource sites - the old " I know a guy for this job" thing isn't as common. If that person could be a reference / recommendation, that would be different.

Good luck...

[grantime]

with Biology degree consider Health Physics as well. 

[griftymcgrift]

Can you explain health physics to me? Thats sounds interesting as well. How would i include, say, my uncle as a reference or referral as opposed to including him in my resume?