Job Skills & Career Services

You need to figure out what marketable skills you have as well as what skills you need to obtain. Some sites help you develop skills that you might be missing. Career Services sites usually have the information you need for this. Some of the schools have been markedly more proactive in developing career services for advanced degree holders or have exceptionally good sites in general; some of these sites follow. Please send me any info you have to add.

CareerPlanit Assessment page - A whole sew of assessments from the mundane to the humorous: The Career Key, Emotional Intelligence Quotient, Inner Self Personality Test, The Intergalactic Explorer Type Test, Interpersonal Communication Skills Test, Kaplan's Test Yourself, Keirsey Temperament Sorter, Personality Tests on the Web, The Personality Type Test, Pyschological Personality Test, The Quickest Personality Test, The Room, and The Star Wars Personality Quiz." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics) MAR2001
Columbia University - "Their site for students contains a lot of great information that is applicable to any student, especially their Job Search Tools & Basics, Career Exploration, and Self-Assessment pages." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001
Cornell University - "A good site, it has a lot of useful general information on planning for a job, tailoring your academic experience to suit your career needs, and finding a job." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001
Emory University Career Services Career Related Sites - "Great resource for other links!! May be a good template of sorts." - Elizabeth Hart (Chemistry) MAR2001
University of Pittsburgh's Survival Skills & Ethics Program - "Survival skills information for grads and postdocs; all you were supposed to be learning." - Elizabeth Hart (Chemistry) MAR2001
University of California, Berkley - "They have a specific page for PhDs and postdocs." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001
University of Chicago Career and Placement Services - "A good site, they have a lot of informative pages, such as Introductory guides on the academic job search, Preparing application materials: C.V.s,letters of application, dossiers, transcripts, Looking for openings, Researching institutions, and Other resources (sources of postings and listings)." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001

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