Graduate Student and Professional Career Pathways and Planning

[Here is an introductory overview of career resources for graduate students and working professionals. A more complete directory is available through my References on Careers page.]

• The Career Planning Process: 4 Steps to Choosing a Career
  From the award-winning careers website The Balance Careers
• A Road Map for Successful Career Exploration
  The tool, called the Career Exploration Road Map, is designed to help you: 1) visualize the “terrain,” or process, of career exploration, 2) track your progress and 3) identify the most strategic next steps. It is meant to be pinned to your wall and revisited every few months
• MyIDP Individualized Career Plan for Doctoral Students in Sciences
  This site enables current doctoral students to create a profile and then follow various career planning scenarios. Highly recommended regardless of your current discipline of study
• The Versatile PhD, which advertises itself as “the oldest, largest online community dedicated to non-academic and non-faculty careers for PhDs in humanities, social science and STEM”
• Imagine PhD
  Top-rated career exploration and planning tool for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences
• Connected Academics: Preparing Doctoral Students of Language and Literature for a Variety of Careers, from the Modern Language Association
• 6 Career-Building Steps to Take While in Graduate School
  Sponsored by BiteSizeBio, this reference by Crystina Pyrgaki emphasizes early development of career-building skills for graduate students in the sciences. Recommended for other disciplines also
• Understanding PhD Career Pathways: A Comprehensive Longitudinal Study
  This resource guide from the Council of Graduate Schools is represented as having the goal “to expand the definition of what career success means” for graduate schools, graduate students, and alumni
• Health and Medical Career Exploration and Skill Development
  An exemplary website for graduate students at the University of California at San Francisco, this resource is filled with resources that any student anywhere will find beneficial, emphasizing Ph.D. student career exploration, skills development, and self-assessment. Includes the resource The MIND Career Exploration Roadmap

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