Career Library

SLAC Career Development Library in Arjona 323 – stop by & take out a book;

  1. So What Are You Going To Do With That? Finding Careers Outside of Academia

  2. A PhD is not Enough

  3. Networking for Nerds

  4. What Color is Your Parachute ?

  5. Succeeding Outside the Academy

  6. Navigating the Path to Industry

  7. Navigating-Graduate-School-And-Beyond a guide for graduate students and a must read for every advisor

  8. The Academic Job Search Handbook (5th edition), edited by Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer Furlong & Rosanne Lurie (samples from a wide range of disciplines)

  9. Surviving Your Academic Job Search, Kathryn Hume (primarily humanities but a good range of samples)

  10. 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)

  11. The Early Career Researcher’s Toolbox