Obtaining Employment
Discussion Groups
These groups connect you with on-going email discussions about
professional issues in a variety of career fields. To
subscribe to any of these, go to the site and follow the directions for
being added to the list. If the subscription page is different
from the group's homepage, the URL for subscription is given as
well.
AERA-GSL: American Educational Research Association Graduate Studies
List
http://kerlins.net/aera-gsl/
The Graduate Studies List of the American
Educational Research Association is co-hosted by Scott and Bobbi Kerlin for students, faculty and
administrators interested in academic discussions about graduate
education and the future of the academic profession.
H-Net Job Guide
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/ H-Net
sends out weekly indexes of positions in history, the humanities, social
sciences, rhetoric, and composition.
Museum Professionals List
http://hclist.de/museum/index1.html
This bilingual (English and German) list focuses
on museums and the internet as well as archives, libraries, and other
communication media.
To subscribe, go to http://hclist.de/museum/add1.html.
Nonacademic Careers for Philosophers
http://listsrv.cmsu.edu/archives/about.php3?list=nacphil-l
This list explores non-academic career opportunities for philosophers.
PHDJOBS-L
http://www.listserv.emory.edu/Archives/phdjobs-l.html
This list is for graduate students and
Ph.D.'s in the humanities and social sciences interested in job
opportunities beyond the academy.
Tomorrow’s Professor
This list is related to Richard Reis' book,
Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering.
The Tomorrow's Professor listserv addresses how doctoral students can
prepare for an academic, government, or industry career in science and
engineering.
To subscribe, go to http://cis.stanford.edu/structure/tomprof/listserver.html
(scroll to the bottom of page). WRK4US
http://www.woodrow.org/phd/WRK4US/
WRK4US, housed on the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation site, invites guest speakers from humanities backgrounds to
discuss their careers (such as technical writing, consulting, IT work,
etc.) with graduates and Ph.D.'s considering these fields. Past
discussions are archived by topic.
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