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Links for Graduate Students
- Non-Academic Career Jobsites
- Academic Career Jobsites
- Academic Career Resources
- Post-Academic Career Resources
- Post-Doctoral and Research Opportunities
Job Sites for Non-Academic Careers
Consulting
Educational Research
Engineering
- Chemical and Engineering News
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Engineering Central
- Ph.D.s Science, Math & Engineering Career Resources
Government
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
- Federal Government Jobs
- Government Jobs
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- National Science Foundation
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
International
Journalism
NGOs
- American Association of Museums
- Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
- Co-op America
- Corpwatch
- Global Impact
- Idealist.org
- Reclaimdemocracy
Non-Ph.D. Teaching
Sciences
Job Sites for Academic Careers
All Disciplines
Art and Humanities
Music
Sciences
Social Sciences
Resources for Academic Careers
Articles
Grant Writing
Job Search
Excellent Reference Books
Anthony, Rebecca and Roe, Gerald.The Curriculum Vitae Handbook: How to Present and Promote Your Academic Career. San Francisco: Rudi Publishing (1998).
Offers advice on the development and use of a CV for employment purposes and provides CV samples to serve as useful models.
Formo, Dawn M. and Reed, Cheryl.Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job Candidates. Sterling: Stylus Publishing (1999).
Offers the academic job search process, resources, and sample CVs and application letters.
Goldsmith, John, Komlos, John, and Schine Gold, Penny.The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2001).
Three scholars combine their experiences to offer information about getting a job, obtaining tenure, and surviving academia as well as succeeding in graduate school.
Heiberger, Mary Morris and Vick, Julia Miller.The Academic Job Search Handbook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2001).
For recent Ph.D.'s going through their first job search, this covers the specifics of conferences and interviews, offers sample curricula vitae, cover letters, and abstracts, and introduces the professorial professional life.
Resources for Post Academic Careers
Articles
- Negotiating Salary (Source: Salary.com Negotiation Clinic)
Job Search Information
Excellent Reference Book
Debelius, Maggie and Basalla, Susan Elizabeth. So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s Seeking Careers Outside the Academy. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (2001).
Two English Ph.D.s cover the transition to the 'post-academic' world. They offer both specific advice about job-hunting and provide a general, often-humorous perspective on the process of moving out of academia.
Post Doctoral and Research Opportunities
- PostdocJobs.com – the first niche recruiting channel and marketplace to bring together recent Ph.D.s, professors, research institutions and other employers to find a good match
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Political Science Association (APSA)
- American Association of University Women Fellowships
- Associated Western Universities Inc.
- Columbia Center for Comparative Literature Post Doctoral Fellowships
- Community of Science Funding Opportunities – the most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 23,299 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research
- Educational Testing Service (ETS) Fellowship and Internship Programs
- Fulbright Scholar Programs
- Grants from Getty (Conservation of the Visual Arts)
- Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grants Program
- Kress Foundation (Curatorial Fellowships)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- National Academies Cristine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Internship Program
- National Academies Fellowship Office
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Science Foundation Fellowships
- North American Conference on British Studies
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Smithsonian Fellowship
- University of Michigan Society of Fellows Post Doctoral Fellowships 2004-07
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Grants/Funding
- U.S. Justice Fund
- Wenner-Gren Foundation (Anthropological Research)
- Women's Studio Workshop (Grants for Artists)
DISCLAIMER: The listing of research organizations allows you to learn about fellowship opportunities. This is not a comprehensive listing of all fellowship offerings. Although we hope and believe the list will be helpful, we cannot and do not make any representation of any kind about them.
