A graduate student's career journey is unique. They're making an impact through their advanced studies, and receiving career guidance is essential in helping them gain clarity about their future and advance toward their career goals.
Below are tips and resources specifically designed to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in their career journey. Feel free to use and share the information below!
CAREER RESOURCES
12twenty - An intuitive platform that allows career advisers to more effectively manage the employment process, give students a better understanding of the recruiting cycle, and help employers find the perfect candidate. www.12twenty.com
Beyond the Professoriate - Provides career education and professional development to graduate students and PhDs in humanities, social sciences and STEM disciplines. www.beyondprof.com
CareerShift - Job hunting web service providing integrated employment research tools. www.careershift.com
Focus 2 - Guides users through a reliable, intuitive career and education decision making model to help them choose a college, select a major, explore occupations, make informed career decisions and take action in their career development. www.focus2career.com
From PhD to Life - Helps clients (grad students and PhDs) gain confidence, feel less isolated, and ultimately take action that moves them forward. fromphdtolife.com
Imagine PhD - A FREE career exploration and planning tool for the humanities and social sciences. www.imaginephd.com
Interstride - An interactive portal that illuminates many pathways to help internationals with their employment search, immigration hurdles, community integration, and overall university engagement. www.interstride.com
jobRxiv - A platform for candidates to find and apply to scientific jobs. Hundreds of new science jobs each week in academia and industry all over the world. jobrxiv.org
myIDP - FREE online career exploration and planning tool that helps graduate students and postdocs in STEM fields leverage their expertise into satisfying and productive careers. myidp.sciencecareers.org
Versatile PhD - Provides graduate students and postdocs unique and instructive content, networks, job analytics and career readiness tools. www.versatilephd.com
uConnect - All-In-One Virtual Career Center that combines career content management and modern student communication to improve visibility, accessibility and utilization of high-impact career services for students, faculty and the campus community. www.gouconnect.com
Graduate Career Consortium (GCC) - An international professional organization comprised of members at research universities and medical schools in the U.S. and Canada serving graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. www.gradcareerconsortium.org
