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Okay-Somerville, Belgin; Scholarios, Dora – Journal of Career Development, 2022
This article examines the role of student job search strategies that differ in goal-directedness (focused, exploratory, and haphazard) in achieving successful university-to-work transitions (i.e., employment in jobs with high skill use/development and qualification-job match). The relationship between job search and employment outcomes is…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Job Search Methods, Education Work Relationship
Roberts, Lee – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Todd Wolfson just finished graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, and already he's landed a tenure-track teaching job in journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. One might think he's the embodiment of the academic dream, in which the struggle to earn a Ph.D. has long provided an entree to a fulfilling academic career. But…
Descriptors: Tenure, Job Search Methods, Social Sciences, Humanities
Gamble, Richard H. – ADE Bulletin, 1980
Personal account of the trying but finally successful nonacademic job search of a recipient of a doctorate in English. (DF)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Higher Education, Humanities, Job Search Methods
Ervin, Gerard L. – ADE Bulletin, 1980
Describes a weekend job workshop for humanities graduate students and recent PhD recipients in which they come into contact with individuals of similar backgrounds who have found nonacademic employment. Recent workshops are described, and recommendations for conducting workshops are included, such as enlisting consultants and using the placement…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Planning, College Programs, Graduate Students