Additional Resources

This list is certainly not exhaustive, and it is probably worth checking out any advice offered below with members of your department to ensure its timeliness and accuracy.

University of Michigan Resources

• Rackham School of Graduate Studies
• Center for the Education of Women
• College of Engineering - Engineering Career Resource Center
• School of Information - Career Placement Services
• School of Public Health - Career ServicesGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy - Career Services
• School of Social Work - Employment Services
• School of Natural Resources & Environment - Career Resources Center

Other university career centers

• UC Berkeley: PhDs & Postdocs
• Princeton University: Graduate Student Resources
• University of Pennsylvania: Career Services (choose “Menus for: Graduate/Professional Students”)
• Columbia University

Discipline-specific sites

Humanities

• Sellout: A resource for Humanities PhDs considering careers beyond the university
• Rackham workshop on Alternate Careers for Humanities PhDs
• Salon's Ivory Tower columns (particularly that of Christine Kenneally and Jennifer Stone Gonzalez)

Art History

• Career Alternatives for Art Historians

English

• Annalee Newitz’s First Person column about an English PhD exploring alternative careers (Chronicle of Higher Education) – click on her name to get a list of all her columns

Social Sciences

Anthropology

• Anthropologists on the job (Christian Science Monitor)
• Anthropologists go native in the corporate village (Fast Company)

Psychology

• What’s New: Nonacademic Careers in Psychology (APA)
• Today’s Careers for Research-Trained Psychologists (APA)

Sociology

• The Common Core of Sociological Careers Open to MAs and PhDs: Teaching, Research, and Practice. Click on the Careers and Jobs tab.
• Christine Martinelli’s First Person columns about a sociologist exploring alternative careers (Chronicle of Higher Education) – click on her name to get a list of all her columns

Sciences

General Sciences

• PhDs.org: Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources
• Science’s Next Wave: Career Resources for Scientists
• Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers
• A Guide to Web Resources on Nonacademic Careers (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Biology

• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: Career Resources
• BioNET job opportunities
• Erin Kay’s First Person columns about a neuroscientist exploring alternative careers (Chronicle of Higher Education) – click on her name to get a list of all her columns

Engineering

• Joel Singer’s First Person columns about an engineer exploring alternative careers (Chronicle of Higher Education) – click on his name to get a list of all her columns

Mathematics

• Mathematical Applications Index
• MAA Career Profiles
• Statistics Job Site
• A Mathematician's Skills Applied to a Nonacademic Career Track (SIAM)
• A Mathmatics Ph.D. becomes an investment analyst (UC Berkeley)

Physics

• Starting a pyramid: Making a lateral move out of academia
• American Institute of Physics: Career Services