Once you have narrowed and researched your options and prepared your job search tools, you are ready to launch your search. It will be important to launch a well-rounded search that taps into job postings, campus resources, and trusted networks.
Connections to Professionals - A referral from a contact goes a long way when looking for a job.
Check out UCAN (the University Career Alumni Network) to search for and connect with professionals who who have volunteered to talk with students about their positions and how to break into their industries!
You can also use the groups you have been contributing to on LinkedIn as a valuable referral source. Check out these articles:
For more ideas about how to leverage your connections, visit the Career Center's networking resources page.
On-line Portals with Job Listings - These job posting sites offer listings in specific or across a variety of industries.
- American Alliance of Museum: Offers a job board for all museum professionals
- American Association for the Advancement of Science: Career and job posting portal for engineers and scientists
- American Historical Association: Jobs and professional development resources for historians
- American Association of Immunologists: Career Opportunities for Immunologists
- Handshake: The Career Center’s job/internship posting portal
- Idealist: Jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities in nonprofits
- Going Global: Offers search field for international jobs and internships
- National Association of Independent Schools: Offers job listing within for independent K-12 schools
- National Council on Public History: Job board, news, and events for history professions
- NatureJobs.com: Science job posting portal
- New York Foundation for the Arts: Offers job board for working and emerging artists
- Publishers Market Place: Offers a job board for a range of positions in publishing.
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Offers job listing within the non-profit sector
- The Muse: Job board and tips on everything from writing a cover letter to dressing for success.
- U.S. Jobs: The Federal government’s official jobs site.
- Vitae: Chronicle of Higher Education's academic and non-academic job and career advice portal.
Job Fairs - Many employers recruiting through job fairs concentrate their efforts on undergraduates. PhDs are still welcome and encouraged to attend. You can use the opportunity to learn more about your industry of interest and to get contact information for the PhD or human resources recruiters.
Know before you go! Some organizations will list PhDs as a class level they are hoping to meet with at the fair. Find out in advance so you can plan accordingly.
- The University Career Center’s Events
- Other Job / Career Fairs
Career Coaching -
- Before Your Appointment:
- Gather together all of the information you have gathered, contacts you have made and job search tools you have developed.
- Consider how you have launched your job search thus far and prepare questions.
- During Your Appointment: Our team of coaches are available to assist you in targeting your job search, preparing, locating information on specific employer web sites and troubleshooting a slowed search