General Information

• Research Skills in a Professional Setting
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Beyond the Ivory Tower column "Every Ph.D. Needs a Plan B"
• Where to Find Information on Non-Academic Careers
• Leaving Academia (social networking site)
• Sellout: Careers beyond the University
• WRK4US (email list and discussion archive on many different careers for Ph.D.'s)
• Non-academic positions taken by Penn Humanities Ph.D.'s
• Online Assessment Resources

Careers & Job Hunting Advice

• Job Search Correspondence Guide
• On-Campus Recruiting: Guidelines
• Guidelines for Using Recruiters
• Interviewing for Jobs and Negotiating Offers
• Changing your CV to a Resume (PowerPoint)
• Resume Template
• "From CV to Resume" an excellent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education

Non-Academic Career Resources for:

• Anthropologists: scroll down on the page for links (see also "Ethnography at Intel")
• Art Historians
• Communication
• Historians (see also Beyond Academe)
• Linguists
• Psychologists
• Sociologists
• Students of English and Other Literatures

Many of these websites can be useful to people in other disciplines. However, if your field of study is not listed here, but you know of a useful link for those in your field, please send it to Helen Kioukis, Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Assistant.

Information on Careers in:

• Archives
• Academic Libraries
• Art and Cultural Organizations, Museums and Design
• Associations
• Consulting
• Development/Prospect Research
• Historic Preservation and Public History
• Institutional Research
• Marketing and Market/Public Opinion Research
• Non-Profits
• Policy Research/Non-Profit Consulting/International Development
• Translation
• Education/University Administration
• Urban Planning and Public Interest
• U.S. Federal Government
• Writing and Editing