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Finding Jobs
If you are curious about what internships and jobs fit your interests and skills, the following resources can be particularly helpful for graduate students.
On-Campus Recruiting: Handshake
Handshake is a portal for accessing internship and job postings, employer information sessions, and a range of other online services brought to you by Cornell Career Services. Complete your Student Profile to receive targeted messages from Cornell Career Services about career fields and programs of interest to you.
Additional internship opportunities for graduate students and recent alumni include:
GRADUATE STUDENT INTERNSHIPS
AAAS Science & Engineering Mass Media Fellowship This 10-week internship places science and engineering students in internship positions at media outlets…..
Careers by Keyword Searches
If you know what topics or skills might be of interest to you in your future career but you’re not sure what the career is called, conduct a keyword search using these resources.
O*Net
This database through the U.S. Department of Labor permits individuals to search for job titles and industries by keyword searches for abilities, interests, skills, knowledge, work activities, work context, and work values—as well as for specific tools or software.
LinkedIn
Are you unsure what people do after getting a graduate degree? Just do an advanced LinkedIn search by typing in keywords such as “Cornell” “PhD” and any other key words of interest, such as your graduate field or skills you’re interested in using. This can be a very helpful approach to understand career paths of individuals with graduate degrees, to find job titles for the skills you’re interested in using, or even to identify people to contact for informational interviews.
If you don’t have a LinkedIn account or are getting limited results, just go to Google and type in keywords such as “LinkedIn, MA, anthropology, Cornell”: anyone who has a publicly available LinkedIn profile with these keywords will appear.
Careers by Discipline
Learn more generally about careers that are available for graduate students in a particular discipline.
Science Careers
This resource, which is from the journal Science, provides a wide range of information such as job listings, career profiles, and career advice for individuals in the science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines.
Chronicle of Higher Education
From job listings, opinion articles, blogs, forums, and advice columns, the Chronicle of Higher Education can be a helpful resource for understanding the job market (both within and outside of academia) and common issues that individuals face during a job search.
Professional Organizations
Discipline-based professional organizations may have articles, networking events, job postings, or professional development events that can help you explore your career interests. Some professional organizations have also published reports on the career outcomes of graduate-degree holders in their fields, including: the American Language Association, the American Historical Association, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society.
CCS Resources
For additional information about organizations, career fields, and other databases, please consult the Link Library or search for books in the career services libraries.