I am a Ph.D. Chemist with 28 years of industrial experience (Dow Chemical) as an analytical chemist. I have over 30 publications in the scientific literature (some of them ground-breaking), have presented talks at national and international scientific meetings, and in my narrow area of expertise, was world renowned for my work in ultra-trace determination of toxic substances (mostly dioxin) in the environment.
I agree with almost everything you said. I would add the resources of the American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org).
Some of the skills a chemist (or any scientist) needs beyond a knowledge of chemistry are (in no particular order):
1- Documenting your work in a way that stands up to legal scrutiny. (Without documenting what you have done, it is as if you never did it because no one can benefit from it.)
2- Presenting your work orally. (scientific meetings, work-group meetings, job performance reviews, ...)
3- Knowledge of the scientific literature in your current area of endeavor. (Has what you plan to do been done before? Can you benefit from what has been done before?)
4- Planning projects. (How should you go about achieving a project's goals?)
You could help your students prepare for a degree in science by making them aware of the importance of these other skills.
