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Beyond the Ivory Tower works with natural scientists, social scientists, and philosophers looking to communicate their ideas to popular audiences. Learn to write short pieces, for wide audiences, about the big questions.

This collection of resources from the UC Berkeley Career Center provides information about non-academic careers in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, and science.

Columbia has created a wealth of resources to assist you in your career development, including how-to guides, samples, and advice on resumes, cover letters, negotiating, interviewing, and more! Use these pages to learn essential tips and strategies to help you navigate your job or internship search.

This Inside Higher Ed blog provides information about Alt-Ac jobs and how to find them. It provides you with questions you can ask yourself to determine your strengths and skills, and provides links that you can use to explore alternative careers.

This site contains a list of academic majors and some Federal occupations directly related to those majors. Occupations with an asterisk (*) require an academic degree or coursework in a particular area of study for entry into the occupation. For other occupations, experience or a combination of related coursework and experience may be substituted for a degree. The academic majors and occupations listed are not all-inclusive.

ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences. It allows users to assess their career-related skills, interests, and values and explore careers paths appropriate to their disciplines, create self-defined goals, and map out next steps for career and professional development success.

This on-line assessment tool will help provide tangible career options for students in STEM fields. Learn more about your interests and career fit with this tool built specifically for Ph.D.s.

Use the PGR Career Explorer pages to learn about some of the principal career pathways open to postgraduate researchers, including case studies of what some of our former PGRs have gone on to do.

PhDs At Work provides graduate students with an online space for shared learning and for making new connections. Learn from peers who have successfully transitioned from academia to industry, gain expert insight on how to manage your career, and join us for an event to connect with new colleagues

PostGradual helps you: Slow down, and simplify the maze of post-PhD careers;
deconstruct the dualities of the post-PhD job hunt; connect to the latest postgrad-specific careers tips and resources from around the world – in one place.

This site features non-career lab alternatives for scientists from the University of Oxford.

Explore career stories from former PhDs who have gone into a range of different career areas with the University of Sheffield's 'Think Ahead' blog. The posts span a wide range of professional areas and could help you generate some ideas.

Information about alternative careers for PhDs from a company that helps science graduates find careers outside academia.

The Versatile PhD website contains free content available to all, and premium content available by institutional subscription. The free content, which anyone may access simply by registering on the site, includes a supportive community of over 90,000 likeminded souls, access to member-posted job listings and the member directory (although SmartJobs requires an institutional subscription), and the public pages of the PhD Career Finder, an interactive tool that lets users explore careers based on their academic discipline.

An article from the journal Nature written by a PhD student who argues that science training provides you with a way of thinking that is applicable to a broad variety of careers.