| State
of the Academic Job Market |
What you should know about nonacademic careers for Ph.D.'s |
| Elizabeth
F. Farrell offers hope from the "Summary Report 2000: Doctorate
Recipients from United States Universities." Includes a link to
the National Opinion Center's web site for more information. |
| Paige
Reynolds tells you how to follow your bliss without being blissfully
ignorant. |
| "A
Hot Prospect in a Suddenly Not-So-Hot Field" Personal experience of a doctoral student in computer science at a top East Coast research university. He is chronicling his search for a tenure-track job this year. |
| "Where
to Turn for Career Advice" Practical guidance for academic job seekers from professional career counselors. |
| Non-Academic
Careers |
What you should know about nonacademic
careers for Ph.D's |
| Guidance from the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation on careers for himanities Ph.D.'s |
| Trends and tips from 32,000 Graduate Students |
| Robin Wagner's suggestions on how to use your academic
skills outside of the academic womb. |
| What indees. Denise K. Magner's review of a career
guide by Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius called So What Are You
Going to Do With That? A Guide for Career Chamging for MA's and Ph.D.'s.
Includes helpful excerpts from a telephone interview with the authors. |
| Robin Wagner, an expert on career and placement
services, describes the plethora of consulting jobs for graduate students
in nonquantitative fields. |
| Aaron Leonard's personal account of life as an
academic-cum-journalist-cum-business guru. |
| Elizabeth New details how this seemingly oxymoronic
combination of humanities and technology can be very "liberating
[as well as lucrative] indeed." |
| Margaret Newhouse offers general tips on establishing
contacts and finding leads to jobs. She showcases the success stories
of two Ph.D. students: an English doctoral student who found salvation
in web advertising and communications as well as a comparative literature
student turned corporate success. |
| Robin Wagner, a career and placement services director,
offers advice on non-academic jods for people with Ph.D. but no practical
skills. |
| Gwendolyn Bradley describes how working at a private
school can be "a rewarding career in its own right, rather than
a waterd-down version of college teaching or an undesireable backup
plan." |
| Mart Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick answer
questions about administration career opportunities for Ph.D. students
and cite job listings compiled by various professional associations. |
| Robin Wagner offers hope for Ph.D. students in
chemistry, biology, engineering, and computer science as researchers
in universities, research corporations, and technology start-ups. The
caveat? "Candidates must love - and we mean really love- to write." |
| Not just for art historians anymore! Robin Wagner
counsels Ph.D. students about getting a job-feeding internship at art
and natural history museums - as well as historical homes, archaelogical
sites, and science centers. Includes a helpful list of online resources. |
| Robin Wagner, associate director of graduate career and placement services at the University of Chicago, offeres practical advice on creating a timeline for getting a nonacademic job. |
| Careers
in Specific Disciplines |
| An article by Gabriella Montell on how the "dismal
science" makes good: as the incomparable Mr. Schwab says, "There
are just a lot of terrific jobs for economists outside of academia." |
| An article published in 2000 about job opportunities
for Physics Ph.D.'s in technical and computational fields. |
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