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General Job Hunt Sites
WU's Job Search Links
Idealist.org
(Focused on Paying Jobs with Non-Profits...)
Monster.com
Yahoo! Hot Jobs
Forbes.com Links to Top Job-Listing SItes
Building a Resume
(and Exploring Careers)
Whitworth's Career Exploration Links (Including Sigi3)
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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
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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
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How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose
" (
V. Gotera
)
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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
NYT Forum Addressing Uses of a Liberal Arts Education
(3/2011)
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History for Dollars
" (David Brooks,
NYT
) (6/2010)
Worthwhile Articles
Related to Grad School
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Advice to Students Considering Grad. Work in English
" (Michael West)
West reflects on the above document
here
.
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Advice to Graduate Students...
" (MLA)
Career Resoures
(MLA)
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What I Tell My Grad Students
" (Lennard J. Davis, CHE)
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But I Have No Skills
" (Chronicle.com)
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A Faustian Bargain
" (Gregory K. Petsko defends the humanities.)
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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
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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
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Disappearing Jobs
" (Scott Jaschik/Inside Higher Ed)
Recent MLA Report on Grim Job Market
(PDF)
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....The Realities of Employment in the Humanities
" (Peter Conn/CHE)
Thomas H. Benton's (Pessimistic) Columns at the Chronicle
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's Digest
(Free)
The Writer's Market
(Not Free)
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
The Simpsons
on Grad Students
30 Rock
on Grad Students
Email Dr. Johnson