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Career
Career Talk The Chronicle’s practical guidance for academic job seekers from professional career counselors.

Beyond The Ivory Tower The Chronicle’s advice for Ph.D.’s seeking a career outside academia. Wide range of articles from “how to find the job you love” to “how to become a consultant.”

Humanities at Work The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation career resource center.

Ms. Mentor The Chronicle’s words of wisdom about academic culture.

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Academic

The Chronicle of Higher Education's website Be sure to look at the Jobs section for relevant articles, advice and  c.v. samples. This section also includes
academic and nonacademic (especially in academic administration) job listings.

NEW! Inside Higher Ed Newly established site for job seekers offers great free services including saved searches, e-mail job alerts, and online portfolios.

American Economics Association Job Openings for Economists Although primarily for academic positions, this site also has many listings for hedge funds, banks and consulting firms. Many of the finance positions look for Engineers and Computer Scientists.

Community College Web Links to Community Colleges and their job sites.

Academic360.com is a web site which has listings of academic and university administrative positions sorted by state and college, as well as contact information for various professional associations.

College Art Association: For art historians.

National Teaching & Learning Forum: on-line edition offers stimulating insight from colleagues eager to share new ways of helping students reach the highest levels of learning.

CS&A recruits teachers and administrators for placement in private, independent schools across the US and abroad.

The Academic Positions Network has national and international listings of faculty and administrative positions.

Affirmative Action Registry - you can search for faculty and administrative positions at the university level, as well as engineering, librarian, research and medical positions.  This website is not exclusive and is open to all job seekers.

Job Hunt is a website for general job search, but includes a section on academic jobs.

Academic Jobs in the U.K. is just that.

Nations jobs has job listings in education, containing college and university listings (for faculty and administrative positions) as well as positions in secondary schools.

Women in Higher Education's site contains listings for faculty and non-faculty positions at institutions of higher education around the U.S.   The listings are targeted for women, but are not limited to female applicants.

HigherEdJobs is a resource for job postings in all areas of higher education - anything from staff to faculty.

Phinished Links is a resource for both academic and nonacademic jobs.  Also offers other interesting categories for graduate students and those postgraduate. 

Women in Security: academic and nonacademic job postings international security. 

Diversity Search (www.corpdiversitysearch.com)
A top notch career connection for women and minorities.

NEW! Leading Source for Post-Doctoral opportunities in all disciplines.

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Academic Librarianship

LibraryHQ.com—Resources for the Wired Librarian. This site covers many aspects of librarianship, including a very thorough section on Library Science as a Career under the Resources tab of the main page. Within that section are multiple links to descriptions of a career in academic librarianship, employment possibilities and salary data, accredited library schools, accredited distance education programs, and scholarships for students in library or information science programs.

Jobs for Information Professionals. This site is a gateway to links on all aspects of job hunting, ranging from trends in employment to relocation information. This site also includes sections, such as “Writing Job Descriptions,” that are useful to employers.

Library Job Postings on the Internet. Serves as a gateway to numerous other sites that actually lists job openings for librarians, such as state and local district job listings. The user can choose to look at sites by type of library, type of position, region, or state. This source is very useful for postings that might not appear in national sources.

Lisjobs.com—Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals. Provides a daily listing in reverse chronological order of open positions that is searchable by keyword. It includes U.S. and international positions, including overseas job exchange opportunities. Job applicants may also post their résumés. The latter is as useful for résumé examples as for actual job-hunting. The site also includes an advice section with multiple links for improving the job-hunting process.

Research Library Residency and Internship Programs. New job hunters can find a database of residency and internship opportunities at this site. Most of the opportunities are job openings for recent graduates of MLS programs, but some are for short-term positions that do not require an MLS degree or provide a stipend to current MLS program students.

ARL Annual Salary Survey. This site posts annual salary data from Association of Research Libraries members for all types of academic librarian positions.

Salary.com. This site has an excellent tool for identifying the expected salary for many different professions, including academic librarianship, by metropolitan area or zip code. It also has a cost of living comparison tool to compare the costs of living in a new place with users’ current locations.

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Nonacademic

NEW!! Work4us
An international email discussion list on nonacademic careers for people with graduate education in Humanities, Education, and Social Science disciplines. To subscribe, click link above, then find subscribe link.


Expanded Career Opportunities for M.A.'s, ABD's and Ph.D.'s
Resources compiled by Jennifer Furlong, Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Career Counselor, Career Services, University of Pennsylvania.


Job Search Engines

New! Top Research Jobs.com
Primarily dedicated to the advertisement of research positions in academia, industry, government and foundations.

BookJobs.com
Newly developed website published by the Association of American Publishers. Includes searchable database of available positions throughout the publishing industry, as well as basic, useful information about the book publishing industry as a whole.


www.monster.com
Job postings updated daily; search by industry, company, geographic area.

MONSTERTrak (www.monstertrak.com)
Targeted job listings and resume database for Yale University graduate students and alumni.

www.alljobsearch.com
A powerful and comprehensive job search engine. Searches leading job search sites sorting by industry, keyword and geopgraphic locations.

www.workopolis.com
Offers a full range of employment opportunities across Canada.

www.directemployer.com
A search engine which links job-seekers directly to websites of a group of employers in the U.S. and worldwide and which links to NACElink National College Employment System.

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General Job Resource Sites

American Economics Association Job Openings for Economists Although primarily for academic positions, this site also has many listings for hedge funds, banks and consulting firms. Many of the finance positions look for Engineers and Computer Scientists.

Computing Research Association
Academic and non-academic openings for Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, and Computer Researchers.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (www.woodrow.org/phd/Career/career.html)
Listing of nonacademic career opportunities, internship grants, mentors and very good “tips and resources.”

Phinished Links (www.phinished.org/links/)
A resource for both academic and nonacademic jobs. Also offers other interesting categories for graduate students and postgraduates.

Richard Bolles Online (www.jobhuntersbible.com/)
Online version of What Color Is Your Parachute? Includes links to useful career sites.

The Riley Guide (www.rileyguide.com/)
Employment Opportunities and Job Resources.

U.S. Department of Labor (www.bls.gov/oco/)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a great source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.

New York Times (www.nytimes.com/pages/jobs/index.html)
Job engine and information.

Wall Street Journal (www.careerjournal.com/)
Job listings with major corporations, salary information and more.

Intellectual Property Law (www.intelproplaw.com/)
This web server provides answers to questions about Intellectual Property Law, as well as jobs that relate to Intellectual Property Law.

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For Profit
Yale School of Management
A helpful site with advice, company and career information and job search engine.

Yale Graduate Consulting SIG (www.yale.edu/consulting/)
A newly started group of students from a variety of disciplines. The site has useful information about management consulting and the process of applying for jobs.

Careers in Business (www.careers-in-business.com/)
Site contains a variety of careers in business. Identifies skills and requirements, facts and trends, salary guides and other resources.

Webhire (www.webhire.com/index.asp)
An internet-based recruitment firm working to provide the general public and recent graduates with jobs. Companies like Akamai Technologies, American Express, Boeing, Millenium Pharmaceuticals and Rational Software all recruit through Webhire.

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Careers with the Government
USAJOBS (www.usajobs.opm.gov)
Federal government’s official one-stop source for federal jobs and employment information.
FBI (www.fbi.gov/employment/employ.htm)

Opportunities in Public Affairs (www.opajobs.com/)

Lists over 300 current jobs in Public Relations, Government Affiars, Legislation, Print & Broadcast Journalism on Capitol Hill, in nonprofits, corporations, and Federal Agencies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

U.S. House Employment Office (www.house.gov/cao-hr/welcome.htm)
Lists job opportunities on Capitol Hill, with the House of Representatives.

U.S. Census Bureau Career Site
(www.census.gov/hrd/www/)
Vacancies listings.

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Nonprofit
Action Without Borders (www.idealist.org/firsttime.html)
This site provides links to approximately 10,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide.

Philanthropy Careers (http://philanthropy.com/jobs/)
Job research engine for careers in the nonprofit sector and relevant resources.

Institute for Global Communications (www.igc.org/)
Provides links to nonprofits and volunteer sites.

Nonprofit Career Network (www.nonprofitcareer.com)
A one-stop resource center for nonprofit organizations and individuals seeking job opportunities in a nonprofit organization.

NEW! Opportunities in Nonprofit Organizations, including universities and other institutions.

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International Careers

NEW! http://www.internationaljobs.org/contents.html
Weekly international job listings in Development, Engineering, Communications and more!

NEW! http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/npo
Craig's List for Washington DC has many non-profit and international development opportunities in DC

NEW! http://www.ldb.org/iphw/links.htm
International Public Health Watch site contains database of international health/development organizations

Overseas Jobs (www.overseasjobs.com/)
Provides links to further resources on international careers, information on job openings overseas, and a job and career guide.

Women In International Security (http://wiis.georgetown.edu/)
Academic and nonacademic job postings in international security.

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Especially for Scientists

Career Sites

ScienceCareers.org is an excellent career resource for scientists with job listings, a career forum, resume/cv database and career advice.

NEW! NIH Office of Education's Virtual Career Center (http://www.training.nih.gov/careers/careercenter)

Science's Next Wave, a web site for the science community, is now fully accessible for Yale graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This excellent resource has articles, features and links about finding a postdoctoral position, job hunting, career transitions, postdoctoral and faculty issues and other career development topics. Graduate Career Services and the University Library are sharing in bringing you this resource.

Yale Biotechnology Career Site (http://www.yale.edu/biotech/Ncareers.htm)
Student Interest Group site which offers a list of life science career opportunities with specific companies and other useful career sites for scientists.

Biomedical Postdoctoral Program (www.med.upenn.edu/postdoc/prospective.html)
The Office of Postdoctoral Programs in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine offers a searchable database of postdocs available at Penn. Their site has a lot of good links to resources for science jobs, as well.

Sciencejobs.com (www.sciencejobs.com)
A site for jobseekers looking for the right position in bioscience.

American Chemical Society (http://www.chemistry.org/careers)

Graduate Channel of naturejobs.com (http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/channels/graduate)

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Information on Data and Funding
What is Happening to Academic Employment of Scientists and Engineers?
(www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/issuebrf/sib98312.htm)
An Issue Brief from the National Science Foundation with statistical data and graphs.

NIH National Research Service Award (http://grants1.nih.gov/training/nrsa.htm)
How to apply for an NRSA, a common avenue for obtaining your own funding.

Scientific Writing
National Association of Science Writers
(http://nasw.org/)
A forum to improve the craft of science writing and encourage conditions that promote good science writing.

Society for Technical Communication
(http://www.stc.org/)
A professional association that advances the art and science of technical writing.

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