Use these resources to help you prepare for a non-academic career.
Getting Mentally Prepared for the Search
Non-Academic Job Search Books
Basalla, Susan and Maggie Debelius, So What Are You Going to Do With That?: A Guide to Career-Changing for M.A.’s and Ph.D.’s. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
Newhouse, Margaret, Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Considering Alternative Careers. Cambridge: Harvard College, 1991
Fiske, Peter S., Put Your Science to Work: The Take Charge Career Guide for Scientists. Washington, D.C.: AGU, 2001
Robbins-Roth, Cynthia, Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower. Burlington, MA.: Elservier Academic Press, 2006
Cryer, Shelly, The Non Profits Career Guide. Burlington, MA.: Fieldstone Alliance, St. Paul MN., 2008
Feibleman, P.J., A Ph.D. is not Enough! Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993
Fiske, Peter S., To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists. Washington, D.C.: AGU, 1996
Schiebelbein, Joan, Putting Tour Graduate Degree to Work., University of Alberta Press, 2001
Researching Online
Search the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Beyond the Ivory Tower and Career Advice columns for articles about Ph.D.’s in non-academic jobs
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