Job Search Resources
Chronicle Vitae: Jobs Outside Academe
Inside Higher Ed: Jobs Outside Higher Education
Career Self-Assessments
UWM Career Planning and Resource Center
ImaginePhD (Coming Soon!)
Career Diversity Initiatives
Career Diversity for Historians (AHA)
Connected Academics (MLA)
A Non-Academic Career (APA)
The Responsive PhD (Woodrow Wilson)
Humanist@Work (UC System)
Data
UVA Employer Survey on Humanities Graduate Education and Alternative Academic Careers
NSF Survey of Doctoral Recipients (Contains PhD data beyond sciences)
Where Historians Work: An Interactive Database of History PhD Career Outcomes
Generic Building Blocks Career Competency Model
Public Humanities
Next Generation Engagement Project New England Resource Center for Higher Education
The Humanities and Its Publics (American Council of Learned Societies)
The Resume and Application Documents
Turning your CV into a Resume Caroline Roberts @ PostAcademic
Books
So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide for MAs and PhDs Seeking Careers Outside the Academy (2001) Susan Basalla, Maggie Debelius
The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning your PhD into a Job (2015) Karen Kelsky
Navigating the Path to Industry (2014) M. R. Nelson
Life After Grad School: Getting From A to B (2010) Jerald M. Jellison
Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm (2017) Christian Madsbjerg
Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Teaching, Issue of Diversity & Democracy (Association of American Colleges and Universities)
Articles
Opening Doors for the PhD – Chronicle of Higher Education
‘Alt-Ac’ Realities – Inside Higher Ed
Student Engagement – Imagining America
STEM Education Is Vital–but Not at the Expense of the Humanities – Scientific American
Why Aren’t More Ph.D.s Teaching in Public Schools? – The Atlantic
Doctoring the Doctorate – Inside Higher Ed
What Can You Do With a Humanities Ph.D., Anyway? – The Atlantic
Oh The Things You Can Do – Chronicle Vitae
Negotiating, Non Academic Style – Chronicle Vitae
Silicon Valley Needs to Get Schooled – LinkedIn