General Job Sites
- Handshake – Your gateway to online Career Center services, exclusively for Cal students and alumni. Handshake grants one-stop access to hundreds of jobs and internships, On-Campus Recruiting (OCR), and other essential employment and internship resources.
- Job Listing Sites recommended by Career Center counseling staff – Although many of the job listings are for bachelor’s level job candidates, the sites do contain job listings for PhDs.
Job Listings by Academic Field
Humanities and Social Sciences
- Opportunity Knocks – This comprehensive site focuses specifically on the nonprofit world.
Mathematics and Sciences
- ScienceCareers.org – Comprehensive website for PhDs in mathematics, engineering and science.
BioSpace.com – Search for jobs on this site. BioSpace also sponsors career fairs in the Bay Area and in other locales. - American Statistical Association – Job listings in research, government, and industry settings that typically require an advanced degree in Math and/or Statistics.
Job Listings by Organization Type
These sites offer many job listings for advanced degree candidates.
Government and Nonprofit
- Regional Educational Laboratory Program – Search for positions in the national educational laboratories.
- WestEd – WestEd regional laboratory, based in San Francisco, features positions in educational evaluation, administration, research and technical assistance.
- National Laboratories and Technology Centers
Education
Academic 360.com – Faculty, staff and managerial position listings in the US and worldwide.
- AERA – Vacancy listings in educational research, administration and practice.
- CalWest – Jobs in independent schools.
- CCC Registry – California Community Colleges’ system features jobs on 109 campuses.
- Chronicle Careers – Professional and managerial jobs in the private sector, nonprofit organizations and foundations.
- HERC Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
- StudentAffairs.com – Find professional and managerial positions in college and universities.
Research Institutes & Think Tanks
- NIRA’s World Directory of Think Tanks – This site contains links to research institutes in more than 50 countries. Search for job vacancies, fellowships and special events sponsored by the organizations.
Freelance Jobs
- Guru.com – Billed as “the world’s largest marketplace for freelance talent.”
- musicalchairs – Classical music jobs around the globe.