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• Career Resources By Major or Field
• Graduate School Planning
• Resumes and Cover Letters
• Job Hunting Online
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• Workshops and Instruction

• Resources for:
  • New Graduates
  • Undergraduates
  • Graduate Students
  • Alumnae/i
  • Faculty and Staff
  • International Students
  • Jobseekers with Disabilities
  • ALANA (African, Latina, Asian, Native American) Jobseekers
  • LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Jobseekers
  • Women and Careers

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e-Library

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Library Catalog

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Related Resources

• Career Education Center -- Simmons career counseling
• CareerLink-- Simmons online recruiting
• CA$H -- Simmons work study and on-campus jobline
• Alumnet Professional Connections
• School of Management Library -- additional career and business resources at Simmons
• Study Abroad Office

Jobs and Professional Life

Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students
Words of wisdom for the aspiring grad student from a professor of zoology at the Zoologisches Institut der Universtät Basel, Switzerland.
http://www.yale.edu/eeb/stearns/advice.htm

Graduate Education and the Job Search
Links to Modern Language Association surveys, reports, and other documents.
http://www.mla.org//resources/documents#tab02

AHA Data on the Historical Profession
Data on the academic job market for history PhDs, salaries, and trends.
http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_Data.cfm

The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century
http://www.historians.org/projects/cge/2004/Report/index.html

Archival Census and Education Needs Survey in the United States
A*CENSUS is an in-progress nationwide survey of the archival profession being conducted by the Society of American Archivists. Some preliminary data is already available at this site.
http://www.archivists.org/a-census/index.asp

Survey on Doctoral Education and Career Preparation
Results of a survey conducted in 1999 about doctoral students' experiences. Also see the useful links at the bottom of the page.
http://www.phd-survey.org/

PhD Career Resources from the "Re-Envisioning the PhD Project"
Includes useful information on obtaining a PhD (entering a program, choosing your committee, research and publication, etc.) and employment afterwards (CVs, PhD career fairs, online resources, etc.).
http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/phd/

Special Issues and Data
This section of the Chronicle of Higher Education online includes data on average faculty salaries, graduate student stipends, trends in faculty employment, and more. Full access available on-campus only.
http://0-chronicle.com.library.simmons.edu/special/

Chronicle Career's Job Diarists
First-hand accounts of finding jobs and working in higher ed. Full access available on-campus only.
http://0-chronicle.com.library.simmons.edu/jobs/archive/firstpersonarch.htm

National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
An group offering advocacy and support for graduate students. Includes resources on writing a dissertation, insurance information, and listservs.
http://www.nagps.org/

Tomorrow's-Professor(SM) Listserv
Maintained by Stanford, this listserv covers a wide variety of topics on the status and future of higher education. Includes archives and links to useful articles (see bottom of home page).
http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/index.shtml

Graduate Education Directory
Links to useful resources for PhD students, from funding to dissertations. A bit difficult to navigate . the link above is to an introduction, but to get to the other pages, choose "Education" and then "Graduate Education" from the left-hand menu.
http://kerlins.net/bobbi/education/graded/

Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor
A full-text online journal covering issues in the academic world from intellectual freedom to tenure and promotion to workload. (Covers all teaching levels, including higher ed.)
http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/issue6p2/

National Council for Higher Education
An independent organization for NEA members in higher education. This site includes information about tenure, technology, distance education, faculty salaries, etc.
http://www2.nea.org/he/nche/

Selected books available in the Career Resource Library:

• Getting Mentored in Graduate School
• Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a PhD

Specific Program Information

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Sciences
Business
Dentistry
International Programs
Law
Medicine
Veterinary Medicine

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Page updated: May 9, 2006