Career Advice for Beyond Academe
- Why You'll Want a Mentor Outside the Ivory Tower, Too
- The Versatile PhD helps graduate students, ABDs, and PhDs identify, prepare for, and excel in professional careers.
- Jobs on Toast has recommendations for podcasts, websites, trainings, and books to assist with job searches.
- The Scientist as Consultant: Building New Career Opportunities by Carl J. Sinderman and Thomas K. Sawyer. A how-to book on learning to be a scientific consultant. This is useful if you are perhaps not fully-funded or looking to transition away from academia. This can also work if you are geographically constrained (can't move for a job).
- Alternate Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower edited by Cynthia Robbins-Roth. Each chapter covers a different career track.
- Career Renewal by Stephen Rosen and Celia Paul. A guide for successful career transition written for scientists and engineers.
- APS and AAPT Joint Report on Preparing Physics Students for 21st Century Careers
- Ph.D. Resources for Re-envisioning the Ph.D.
- Resources for the Development of Early Career Scientists -- Downloadable book
- "So What are You Going to Do With That? A Guide for...Seeking Careers Outside the Academy", by S. Basalla and M. Debelius. January, 2001, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
- "Navigating the Path to Industry", by M. R. Nelson. October, 2014, Annorlunda Books.
- "Put Your Science to Work", by Peter S. Fiske. December, 2000, American Geophysical Union Press.
- APS's "Tools for Career Advisors"
- APS's "Alternate Career Paths" examples
- IOP's "Career Directions" interviews
- Inside Higher Ed's Jean-luc Doumont's interview about his career in Applied Physics
- American Mathematical Society's "How to Prepare to Find a Job in Industry" by Stanley Benkoski
- Science magazine article "Learn to read between the lines of a job ad" by David Jensen
- Science magazine article "Transitioning from Researcher to Outreacher" by Lucas Laursen
- Science magazine article "Careers in Patent Law" by Katie Cottingham
- Science magazine article "New PhD incomes 'surprisingly low'" by Beryl Lieff Benderly
- Science magazine article "Make a powerful interview impact controlling the intangibles" by David Jensen
- Science magazine article "'Employment crisis' for new PhDs is an illusion" by Jeffrey Mervis
- Science magazine article "How fear can limit your career potential" by David Jensen
- US News and World Report article "Look Beyond Academia to Find Jobs with a Science Ph.D."
- New Scientist article "The state of the job market in science"