PhD Career Guide provides comprehensive information about the variety of industries that hire people with PhDs, from consulting, to finance, to writing. It also hosts a podcast featuring PhDs who have found success in non-academic careers. It’s a great place to start learning about a wide range of career possibilities.
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MLA Career Exploration Activity Packet: Skills Self-Assessment, Job Ad Analysis, and Next Steps
The Modern Language Association’s Connected Academics site offers this useful resource for assessing your skills, interests, and values as you think about your career path after the PhD. The career exploration activity packet includes hands-on exercises using real job listings for both tenure track and non-faculty jobs to help you think about how to work…
UGrow: Graduate Internship Program at University of Miami
The UGrow (Graduate Opportunities at Work) Program at the University of Miami was established in 2015 to provide professional training and preparation for humanities and social science PhD students interested in careers other than tenure-track faculty positions. Developed by Tim Watson in the College of Arts & Sciences, in partnership with The Graduate School at the…
Humanities Training, Leadership Skills, and International Development Work
By Meg Ahern, gender specialist at the Global Partnership for Education at the World Bank. Dr. Ahern completed her joint PhD in Women’s Studies & English in 2012. When I was at Rackham, I never attended any alternative career panels – I was in full academia-or-bust mode. Upon graduating, I had the incredible luck to get the…
Beyond Academia: Professional Opportunities for Philosophers
The American Philosophical Association has released the 2016 version of Beyond Academia—its guide to non-academic career opportunities for philosophers. The guide provides resources for philosophers interested in pursuing careers beyond the tenure track, biographical essays by those who have successfully done so, and recommendations for department chairs and placement officers.
What’s the right job for bringing historical perspectives into public life?
By Amanda Moniz, PhD, Associate Director of the National History Center and Program Coordinator at the American Historical Association. Dr. Moniz received her PhD in History from the University of Michigan in 2008. If you had asked me several years ago what public history is, I would have talked about museums. Indeed, museums are leading…