Career Services for Graduate Students
In addition to the information found in the Student section of this website, Xavier University's Career Services Center offers many resources for graduate students. Aside from career counseling and an online recruiting network (eRecruiting), the Career Services Center can provide graduate students with additional resources both online and off that can get you on the right track to starting your career.
Helpful Websites
- Advice Collection - This website contains hundreds of helpful links that are specific to everyone's needs. An entire section is dedicated to job hunting which includes links and articles helpful to graduate students.
- Job Hunter's Bible - This is the official site for Dick Bolles, the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? He gives great advice for the issues facing job-hunters and he highlights some helpful resources that can help you find your first job.
- Academic Careers
- Non-Academic Careers
Funding Resources
- List of funding sources for humanities at the Doreen B. Townsend Centre for the Humanities
- Funding lists for
Articles
- "How to Be a Good Graduate Student" - This paper written by a graduate student from the University of Maryland discusses many issues that face graduate students everywhere.
- "Research Experience: A Ticket to Graduate School" - This article focuses on gaining research experience and its benefits after graduating.
- "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!" - This guide is written by a computer science graduate student. It focuses on mental toughness and the skills a graduate student needs. The guide also discusses finding a job after completing the Ph.D. and points to many other related web pages.
- "The 5 'Virtues' of Successful Graduate Students" - This is an extremely helpful article written by an assistant professor of English. The article gives great advice on the virtues a graduate student should embody when seeking success during as well as after graduate school.
- "A Little Advice From 32,000 Graduate Students" - This article has collected advice from graduates. The article is very helpful and has a lot of great advice on finding jobs and using all the resources in graduate school to prepare for entering the job market.
- "Advice to Graduate Students: From Application to Career" - This essay focuses on graduate students with an English or foreign language concentration. The author gives great career advice that can help students achieve a head start on the job search process.
- "Unique Job Search Concerns of Graduate Students" - This article, published by monster.com, gives basic advice on career development for graduate students. It has helpful links and covers the basics of what you need to start your job search.
Books
- Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a PhD by Robert L. Peters.
- The Ultimate Grad School Survival Guide by Lesli Mitchell.