Career Development Library in Arjona 323 – email melanie.stroud@uconn if you’d like to borrow a book;
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So What Are You Going To Do With That? Finding Careers Outside of Academia
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A PhD is not Enough
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Networking for Nerds
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What Color is Your Parachute ?
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Succeeding Outside the Academy
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Navigating the Path to Industry
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Navigating-Graduate-School-And-Beyond a guide for graduate students and a must read for every advisor
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The Academic Job Search Handbook (5th edition), edited by Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer Furlong & Rosanne Lurie (samples from a wide range of disciplines)
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Surviving Your Academic Job Search, Kathryn Hume (primarily humanities but a good range of samples)
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The Professor Is In, Karen Kelsky (doesn’t include samples, but has lots of good information and a very useful skeleton structure for writing an effective academic cover letter)
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The Early Career Researcher’s Toolbox