Forensic-Specific Job Sites

1. Crime Scene Investigator Network: This crime scene site now contains a job board, and the job openings are located across the U.S. The current list includes jobs like crime laboratory manager in Louisiana, and a crime scene investigator in Grand Prairie, Texas.
2. Criminal Law Jobs: Popular searches at this job search engine include forensic scientists, forensic, forensic science, and criminal justice, among others. You also can search for jobs by employer or state.
3. Forensic Jobs: Forensic Magazine offers job postings from around the Web. This list includes a wide range of jobs, from cyber forensic specialists to computer forensic examiners and forensic mortgage underwriters.
4. Forensic Psychology Jobs: This is the site you want if you’re searching for jobs with the application of psychology to the field of criminal justice and law. Typically, forensic psychologists work in courts and private practices, but they also can provide analysis of a criminal’s mind and intent, treat mentally ill offenders and even consult with lawyers.

Larger Job Sites

5. CareerBuilder Forensics Expert Jobs: This listing includes jobs for those individuals with forensic experience. You also can search this site for forensic specialties, jobs for beginners in the field, and jobs in your area.
6. CareerOneStop: This site contains veterans and government job banks, private sector job banks, and state job banks. there is a focus at this site on forensic science technicians, but you also can search for careers in life sciences.
7. Employment Crossing Forensic Science Jobs: The jobs listed here are from across the U.S., and include titles such as computer forensics associate, forensic examiner, and forensic anthropologist.
8. Indeed Forensic: Indeed pulls job listings from various sources. The forensics jobs here currently include a DNA lab specialist, forensic medical director, and several listings for forensic scientists.
9. Monster Forensic Science Jobs: While this list includes forensic science jobs, you also can search for other forensic specialties by keyword, or search for jobs in your location by region, state, or city.
10. Simply Hired Forensic Science Jobs: Jobs listed in this category include internships, structural engineer, forensics engineer, and forensic regional account manager for genetic identity. You also can search by company, job type, education and experience, and by recruiter.
11. US.Jobs: This site lists jobs through the National Labor Exchange. Job opportunities under “forensic science” seem to focus on computer forensics and data analysis. However, you can refine your search by job title, location, and company.
12. USAJobs: This site is a U.S. Office of Personnel Management website, and includes jobs posted by the Federal Government. Forensic jobs are included in this postings, including any from organizations such as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Forensics Laboratory.

Organizations and Associations

13. American Academy of Forensic Sciences: This professional organization provides leadership to advance science and its application to the legal system. There is no charge to list a job, and you don’t need to be a member to peruse the listings.
14. Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE): This organization lists jobs that focus on firearms, but they also include crime scene supervisors and investigators, forensic scientists, and criminalists.
15. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF): ATF lists a broad range of career opportunities for professionals. Because of the breadth and scope of ATF’s mission, they employ professionals in fields as varied as intelligence analysis, laboratory sciences, information technology, human resources, general management, and law.
16. Federal Bureau of Investigation Careers (FBI): The FBI separates career specialties into linguists, special agents, hostage rescue teams, professional staff opportunities, and special agents. They also list internship opportunities for college students.
17. Forensic Advisors International: On this page you will find information for senior forensic consultant and instructor positions and how to apply for them. Senior forensic advisors and instructors are subcontractors to the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program. They are not employees of the US Government.
18. International Association for Identification (IAI): IAI lists jobs as a service to members. The IAI maintains no further information about any particular job that is posted. The list starts with the oldest job offer first, and the newest job offers are located at the bottom of the list.
19. National Association of Medical Examiners: This site lists jobs for general positions, jobs for forensic pathologists, and a category for non-forensic pathology jobs.
20. Society of Forensic Toxicologists, Inc. (SOFT): SOFT is an organization composed of practicing forensic toxicologists and those interested in the discipline for the purpose of promoting and developing forensic toxicology. They post listings as a service to their members, but this is an open list to the public.

Forensic Science Association Employment Lists

The following links are included, because they provide a rich resource for information about forensic science careers. The jobs, in most cases, are not limited to the region. However, the jobs also are not repeated throughout. So, you might want to check all regions to learn about forensic science jobs located across the U.S.

21. Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists (MAAFS): Currently, this site contains job listings for the Mid-Atlantic region in the U.S. as well as jobs in California, Massachusetts, and Wyoming.
22. Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists (MAFS): Again, job postings in this list are not confined to the Midwest. Jobs are available in Las Vegas, West Virginia, and Louisiana. Some of the job listings include senior criminalist, forensic project coordinator, and forensic drug analyst.
23. Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists (NEAFS): The jobs listed here do focus mainly on the Northeast U.S., and include careers such as director for forensic services, technical support for genetic identity, and toxicology.
24. Northwest Association of Forensic Scientists (NWAFS): The jobs listed here are in Adobe Acrobat format. They include jobs from across the U.S., so they are not limited to the Northwest region.
25. Southwestern Association of Forensic Scientists (SWAFS): This job listing is more detailed on the front end, listing job descriptions and requirements. Jobs include DNA manager, forensic scientist for latent prints, firearms, and toolmarks, and a crime scene section supervisor. Jobs listed are mostly in the Southwest, but some jobs are listed from other regions as well.

Technical Careers

1. Agricultural Technician: If you like working around animals or if you grew up on a farm, consider taking your forensic skills to the fields.
2. Biological Technician: Set up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, make observations, calculate and record results and possibly analyze organic substances such as blood, food, and drugs.
3. Broadcast Technician: Use your technical skills to set up and maintain electrical equipment used in nearly all radio and television broadcasts, concerts, plays, sound recordings, and movies.
4. Chemical Technician: Applied chemical professionals work in a variety of industries, ranging from industrial chemicals, paints, fuels, and metals to agricultural products, food processing, and pharmaceuticals.
5. Conservation Technician [PDF]: Forest and conservation technicians compile data on the size, content, and condition of forest land. They also may gather basic information, such as data on populations of trees, disease and insect damage, tree seedling mortality, and conditions that may pose a fire hazard.
6. Diagnostic Medical Sonographers: Sonographers operate special equipment, which collects reflected echoes and forms an image that may be videotaped, transmitted, or photographed for interpretation and diagnosis.
7. Nuclear Medicine Technologists: Nuclear medicine technologists operate cameras that detect and map the radioactive drug in a patient’s body to create diagnostic images.
8. Nuclear Technician: If you want to work with nuclear equipment, this job provides that opportunity. Operate equipment used for the release, control, and utilization of nuclear energy to assist scientists in laboratory and production activities.
9. Protection Technician: Although this link leads to protection technicians for the environment, you also can become a protection tech for fire services, electronics, nuclear industry and more. You’ll perform lab and field tests to monitor the environment and to investigate sources of problems in all cases.
10. Radiologic Technician: Radiologic technologists and technicians perform diagnostic imaging examinations like x rays, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and mammography.

Criminal Justice

11. Counterterrorism: Homeland Security, among other agencies, seek forensic experts for a number of jobs and activities. This organization’s work is to battle terrorism, including building information-sharing partnerships with state and local law enforcement that can enable law enforcement to mitigate threats.
12. Crime Laboratory Analyst: Crime lab analysts work primarily in crime laboratories, analyzing evidence. They perform scientific examinations of blood, drugs, firearms, and toxicological samples. Crime lab analysts also assist in autopsies.
13. Crime Scene Examiner: This position is responsible for complex crime scene investigations and testifies in court regarding the findings and processing methods used at the scene.
14. Criminalist: The criminalist brings evidence back to the laboratory where examinations will be conducted. Often, criminalists may conduct tests to determine firearms and toolmarks, trace evidence, DNA and serology and drugs, alcohol and toxicology in powders, pills and liquids and body fluids.
15. Digital & Multimedia Sciences: The forensic sciences utilize multitudes of instruments, chemical tests, measuring devices, and numerous specialty tools to assist in forensic examinations of digital and multimedia devices and output.
16. Financial Forensics and Fraud Investigation: You can become in involved in fraud investigation at three different levels — financial, forensic accountant or consumer protection. A degree or experience in accounting is necessary for this job.
17. Forensic Engineer: A direct line of work that emanates from forensic science is the study of materials, products, structures or components that fail or do not operate or function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property.
18. Forensic Odontologist: Evidence derived from teeth can help to identify a victim, or can also identify an assailant who uses biting as a weapon. Forensic dentistry or forensic odontology is the proper handling, examination and evaluation of dental evidence.
19. Medical Examiner: Depending upon location, a medical examiner usually is a medically qualified government officer whose duty is to investigate deaths and injuries that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdictions to initiate inquests.
20. Pathology/Biology: Autopsies are where this action takes place, as pathologists study disease by gathering samples from autopsies and examine the tissues removed.
21. Criminal Profiler: Work for agencies such as the FBI to help investigate and psychologically detail profiles for unknown criminal subjects or offenders for investigators.
22. Suspension and Debarment Investigation: Investigate criminal behavior among government contractors and grantees at different levels.
23. Toxicology: Toxicology is the study of symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people.
24. Wildlife Forensics: Wildlife forensics is a relatively new field of criminal investigation. Its goals are to use scientific procedures to examine, identify, and compare evidence from crime scenes, and to link this evidence with a suspect and a victim, which is specifically an animal.

Other Jobs

25. Environmental Scientist: Use your detective skills to discover sources of pollution and other environmental problems and come up with solutions.
26. Expert Witness: Become an authority in your field as a forensic scientist, and you may find work as an expert witness.
27. Food Science: This field is concerned with all technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption. Investigation and analysis is required for food safety.
28. Geoscientists and Hydrologists: Instead of studying and analyzing firearms and body fluids, forensic scientists can turn to the earth to study the composition, structure, and other physical aspects of earth, rock, and water.
29. Handwriting Analysis: Use your forensic knowledge about handwriting to create a business based upon your analytical skills.
30. Maritime Law Enforcement: If you’re fond of water and boats, you can become involved in Admiralty law, or maritime law.
31. Physical Anthropology: This line of work draws upon human anthropometrics (body measurements), human genetics (molecular anthropology) and human osteology (the study of bones) and includes neuroanthropology, the study of human brain evolution, and of culture as neurological adaptation to environment.
32. Psychiatry & Behavioral Science: Profiling is part of this job, but this is a broader title that also takes in everything from law enforcement operations to the mindset of gangs and other group dynamics.
33. Radio Operators: Receive and transmit communications using radiotelephone equipment in accordance with government regulations. A degree in forensic sciences can help you advance quickly as you analyze data.

General Forensics Blogs

If you want a basic overview of forensics, these blogs can give you a great look at what the world is like when you are a forensic science technician.

1. Forensic Crime Scene: Learn about different aspects of a crime scene, and how you can use forensics to solve a crime.
2. Zeno’s month: Get inside information on the life of a forensic scientist.
3. Forensic Talk: An interesting look at the issues facing those working forensics.
4. All About Forensic Science: An overview of different techniques of interest related to forensics.
5. Forensic Science: The writers at Suite 101 offer helpful insights into forensics.
6. Forensics Wiki: A helpful resource for all things related to forensic science.
7. Forensic News Blog: Learn about the latest news and information in the world of forensics — and how the media presents the science.

Physiology and Anatomy Blogs

A basic understanding of how the human body works can go a long way for a forensic technician, since you might be dealing with answering questions that require some knowledge.

8. Morbid Anatomy: Get a good idea of human anatomy and morbidity. Also includes interesting art related to the subject of death.
9. Human Physiology Mcqs Postgraduate Entrance preparation: Learn about different aspects of human physiology in a way that can help your forensic ability.
10. Medical Eponyms with Explanations: Get an overview of different names you might run into.
11. davidrothman.net: Helpful information about medicine and anatomy.
12. Anatomy and Physiology Blog: This offering from Sacramento State can bring insight into the human body.

Toxicology and Pathology Blogs

You hear about “toxicology reports” quite a bit in forensic science. You may also need to understand pathology. These blogs can help you learn more about how that all works.

13. Accelrys: Explores a number of issues in science research, including toxicology.
14. Digital Pathology Blog: Learn about digital pathology, including tissue pathology.
15. Neuropathology Blog: Learn about the pathology of diseases affecting the neurological system.
16. pathtalk.org: Look at different cases, and learn things that can help you as a forensic science technician.

DNA/Genetics Blogs

Genetic testing and DNA evidence are increasingly important parts of crime investigation, and these blogs can give you a good idea of how it all works.

17. Plain Error: A look at DNA evidence and testing.
18. it is NOT junk: A DNA blog focused genomes, evolution and issues related to the study of our make-up.
19. Think Gene: Keep up with what is happening in the world of genetics.
20. DNA Blog: Get information about DNA and genetic testing from CyGene Direct.
21. Eye on DNA: A look at how DNA is being used in science and technology.

Ballistics and Guns Blogs

Learn about how guns work, and learn how this knowledge can be used to aid your work as a forensic science technician.

22. Ballistic Simulator: Provides helpful examples of how you can use a ballistic simulator to figure out what happens when a gun is shot.
23. Battlefront.com: An interesting weapons ballistics blog.
24. Online Guns Blog: A look at guns, and different aspects of them.
25. Dustin’s Gun Blog: Learn about guns, how they work and different characteristics of different guns.
26. The Firearm Blog: A helpful look at the different properties and aspects of firearms.

X-ray Blogs

It helps to understand how x-rays work, and how to read them, since you might use them in your work.

27. X Ray Technician Blog: Learn a little bit about radiology and x-rays.
28. OptoIQ: News and information about using x-rays and other aspects of optics to solve a number of mysteries.
29. rt-image.com: Interesting posts and articles on imaging and the latest news in radiology.
30. Medical Imaging Talk: Get the latest news in medical imaging and learn useful information for forensic science.

Criminal Justice Blogs

Learn the ins and outs of the criminal justice system.

31. Expert Witness Blog: Many forensic scientists and technicians are used as expert witnesses. Learn what it takes to do this well.
32. Total Criminal Defense: A look at the basics of criminal defense and what goes into it.
33. Criminal Justice Online: Interesting cases, and insight into the way evidence gathering works, and how evidence is used in the criminal justice system.
34. Criminal Justice USA: Insight into improving your career as a criminal justice professional.
35. Dorf on Law: Learn about the legal system from a Cornell professor.

Law Enforcement Blogs

You will have to work closely with cops, so learn about their point of view so that you understand how you can help.

36. Mr. Police Man: Learn about what it’s like to be out there on the front lines.
37. The Chief’s Corner: Police life from the perspective of a police chief.
38. The Plastic Fuzz: An interesting blog about life as a police officer. Also serves as a support community. You will need permission to read this blog.
39. The Johnny Law Chronicles: A real world look at the life of a police officer.
40. Police Inspector Blog: A cool police blog with a U.K. twist.

Crime Psychology Blogs

Learning how the criminal mind works can help you become a better forensic science technician.

41. Deception Blog: This blog is all about the psychology of deception when it comes to crime.
42. In the news by Karen Franklin PhD: This is an interesting blog about crime psychology by a former forensic psychologist.
43. Sociology and Criminology at Keele University: Study criminology and how it relates to society.
44. Centre of Criminology Library Blog: Insight into what is happening in the minds of criminals.

Specialized Forensic Blogs

From computer forensics to forensic accounting to forensic anthropology, there are some different specialized fields related to forensics.

45. Forensic Astrology: That’s right. Some people use the skies to solve forensic mysteries.
46. Forensic Photoshop: Helpful tips and tutorials on using Photoshop with your forensics career.
47. Computer Forensics: Learn about the lives of a team of computer forensic scientists.
48. Computer Forensic Blog: Get the latest happenings in computer forensics.
49. Forensic Medicine Resources: Information and resources related to forensic medicine.
50. Afarensis: A look at forensic anthropology and some of the news issues associated with the science.