Grad School and Job Hunt Links


	Grad School Links/Job Hunt Links Contact/Home - Simple Menu General Job Hunt Sites WU's Job Search Links Idealist.org (Focused on Paying Jobs with Non-Profits...) Monster.com SimplyHired.com Answers.com Job Hunitng Site MediaBistro (Media-Related Jobs) BradTraverse.com (D.C.-Related Jobs) Forbes.com Links to Top Job-Listing SItes Also think about specific organizations: AP Building a Resume (and Exploring Careers) Whitworth's Career Exploration Links (Including Sigi3) "Does Your GPA Matter to Employers?" (MSN Careerbuilder) Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook The Riley Guide (Esp. On Using the Net for Job Hunts) Jobs for English Majors.com "What to Advise Unemployed Graduates" (Thomas H. Benton) WU's Guide to Thinking About Vocation (PDF) Help with the Grad School Application Loyola's Advice to Applicants "How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose" (V. Gotera) "Leave Dr. Seuss Out of It" ("Female Science Professor" at CHE) Help with Document Prep: Resumes and Cover Letters The Purdue OWL's Job Search Writing Help (The excellent resume-making sections are well worth your time.) Career Services at Whitworth (And talk with your friendly neighborhood profs.) Bedford/St. Martin's Model Business Documents (Including a good, basic resume model, in the "Business" section.) Worthwhile Articles Related to Majoring in the Humanities Literary Fiction Improves Social Skills (Science Says!) (10/3/13) NYT Forum Addressing Uses of a Liberal Arts Education (3/2011) "History for Dollars" (David Brooks, NYT) (6/2010) "Why I Hire Musicians" (Jeb Banner) "How Art History Majors Power the US Economy" (Virginia Postrel) (1/5/12) "What Will You Do With an English Degree? Plenty" (Michael Berube) (1/4/13) Worthwhile Articles Related to Grad School "Advice to Students Considering Grad. Work in English" (Michael West) West reflects on the above document here. "Advice to Graduate Students..." (MLA) Career Resoures (MLA) "What I Tell My Grad Students" (Lennard J. Davis, CHE) "But I Have No Skills" (Chronicle.com) "A Faustian Bargain" (Gregory K. Petsko defends the humanities.) "And If I Just Don't Go?" (Alexandra Lord, CHE) Eszter Hargittai's "Ph.Do" Inside Higher Ed Columns Henry Adams's "Academic Bait and Switch" Series "So You Want to get a Ph.D. in the Humanities" (This is a little TOO cynical.) On the the Hiring Outlook for English Professors "Disappearing Jobs" (Scott Jaschik/Inside Higher Ed) Recent MLA Report on Grim Job Market (PDF) "....The Realities of Employment in the Humanities" (Peter Conn/CHE) Thomas H. Benton's (Pessimistic) Columns at the Chronicle "Academia's Indentured Servants" (Sarah Kendzior, Al Jazeera) School Rankings Sites US News and World Reports Rankings (Being ranked #1 here doesn't nec. make it your #1.) PhDs.org (Job Hunts, Grad School Rankings) Finding a Specific Kind of Grad Program (Not Much in This Section Yet...) Assoc. of Arts Administration Educators Higher Ed-Centric Job Hunting Sites PhDs.org (Job Hunts, Grad School Rankings) Higher Ed Jobs Chronicle of Higher Ed Jobs Site Current Jobs: Am Lit, English Current Jobs: Brit Lit, English Current Jobs: Rhetoric/Writing Council for Christian Colleges and Universities: Careers Versatile PhD More PhD Links PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) Comics Freelancing and Publishing Duotrope Digest (Free) The Writer's Market (Not Free) Articles on Publishng from Writer's Relief What We Think About When We Think About Recommendation Letters CHE Profhacker's Open Forum on Rec Letters Tips from Oberlin on Writing Rec Letters Shriram Krishnamurtho on Rec Letters About the Value of a Well-Rounded Liberal Arts Education "Our Superficial Scholars" (Heather Wilson) Other Leonard da Vinci's Resume A Letter to a Prospective Lexicographer The Simpsons on Grad Students 30 Rock on Grad Students "Revenge of the Liberal Arts Major" "A Cover Letter from An Art Major Seeking a Job that Literally Requires Him to Apply the Skills He Learned in School" This is Satire! Not a Model! :) Email Dr. Johnson