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Direct linkOkay-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
Donaldson, Christine F.; Flynn, Elizabeth A. – 1982
A bibliography for Ph.D.'s in the humanities who are seeking employment outside the discipline in which they are trained is presented. The materials, which were primarily published within the past 7 years, include books, articles, pamphlets, directories, and periodicals. The first section contains listings of materials related to the job hunt:…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Interviews, Employment Opportunities
American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities, Washington, DC. Washington Humanities Forum. – 1982
This report provides the results of a survey of the career-related services of 44 learned and professional societies in the humanities and social sciences in the United States. In October 1980, 44 organizations responded to a written questionnaire asking for information on a wide variety of issues and topics concerned with career related services.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Counseling, Career Ladders, Employed Women
