Job Search Resources
Job Search Strategy and Checklist
Not sure where to start? Here are some ways to get started on your job search.
- About Our Team
- Self Assessment Tools for Career Exploration
- Explore Diverse Career Paths in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Explore Diverse Career Paths in the Sciences
- Resources for Teaching Jobs
- How to Turn Your CV Into a Resume
- Resume Templates
- How to Write Cover Letters
- Get Work Experience and Gain Practical Skills
- How to Build Your Network
- Requesting Informational Interviews
- How Do I Prepare for an Interview?
- Preparing for Technical Interviews
About Our Team
Self-Assessment Tools for Career Exploration
Assess your skills, interests and values to find a career path that is a good fit for you.
- Meaningful Work Kit: A career assessment tool to help you understand and prioritize what makes you thrive developed by Stanford Career Education.
- MyIDP Science Careers (Sciences): A career-planning tool that was created to help graduate students and postdocs in the sciences define and pursue their career goals.
- ImaginePhD (Humanities/Social Sciences/Arts): A career exploration and planning tool for the humanities and social sciences.
- InterSECT Job Simulations: Provides true-to-life job simulation exercises to explore career options. Try out some exercises in a field you're interested in!
- Idealist (non-profit jobs)
- LinkedIn Jobs
- Government Jobs
- Handshake Jobs and Internships
Diverse Career Paths in the Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences
Brandeis GSAS alums in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts pursue a diverse range of career paths in public and private research, non profits, think tanks, higher education and government.
- Idealist (non-profit jobs)
- Anthropology Careers and Employment
- American Historical Association Jobs and Professional Development
- USA Jobs - The Federal Government
- Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Higher Education Administration Jobs: Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
- Modern Language Association Career Resources for PhDs
- K-12 Teaching Jobs - National Association of Independent Schools
- National Gallery of Art Jobs and Internships
- Beyond the Professoriate Development Blog and Events
- LinkedIn ASA Networking Group for Sociologists in Practice Settings
- Carpe Careers: A new essay every week featuring career advice for PhDs.
Diverse Career Paths in the Sciences
Brandeis GSAS alums in the Sciences pursue a diverse range of career paths but not limited to government and non profit organizations, science communication, research and medical affair industry jobs.
- Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
- Nature Careers
- American Chemical Society Career Planning Tool - ChemIDP
- American Mathematical Society - Explore Job Options
- American Psychological Association - Psychology Careers
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Career Resources
- US Department of State Career Paths
- NIH Scientific Careers
- AAAS Science Career Newsletter
- Women In Science
- InterSECT Job Simulations: Provides true-to-life job simulation exercises to explore career options. Try out some exercises in a field you're interested in!
Resources for Teaching Jobs
- Considering Community Colleges: MLA Committee on Community Colleges
- A Community College Teaching Career: MLA Committee on Community Colleges
- 5 Terrific Transferable Skills in Teaching: Beyond the Professoriate
How to Turn Your CV Into A Resume
- How To Write A Resume When You Have An Academic CV
- Turning a CV Into a Resume
- Writing a Resume Summary
- Resume and Cover Letter Templates For PhDs
Resume Templates
- Data Science and Machine Learning
- User Experience Research
- Science Industry Research
- Science Communications
- Advocacy and Nonprofit
- Software Engineer
How to Write a Cover Letter
Get Work Experience and Gain Practical Skills
- Read about these 7 career competencies to show on your resume
- Make an appointment with the SciComm lab
- Brandeis Innovation I-Corps Program (funded by the NSF)
- LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) offers more than 5,000 high-quality educational videos on topics ranging from using different technologies to building business and professional skills.
- DeisHacks Check out this year's Brandeis Social Impact Hackathon from 2/3-2/5, where students are connected with 12 nonprofits to solve real-life problems and make improvements.
How to Build Your Network
- Beyond the Professoriate: 10 Things Your PhD Advisor Never Told You About Growing Your Professional Network
- Requesting an Informational Interview
- Join our Brandeis GSAS Careers and Connections Group
- B Connect
- Passive Networking for Long-Term Career Success
- 8 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Graduate Students
Requesting Informational Interviews
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Template to help you get started with language to reach out for informational interviews
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Conducting informational interviews is a great way to learn about potential diverse career paths and ask questions about skills needed. Here are some questions to get you started.
- Inside Higher Ed - Informational Interviews
- Ask a Manager - Actually Useful Questions to Ask in Informational Interviews
Interviewing
- How to answer the question, ‘Tell Me About Yourself’
- How to answer Common Interview Questions
- How to answer Behavioral Interview Questions
- What is the hiring process like outside of academia?
- Meet with us one-on-one for a practice mock interview!
Preparing for Technical Interviews
- LeetCode: prepare for programming interviews
- Interview Cake: prepare for programming interviews
- Consultingcase 101: preparing for management consulting interviews