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General Career Information

Job Hunters Bible

Career and Academic Planning

JobWeb.com

CareerBuilder.com

Job Search Tools

Yahoo! HotJobs

CoolWorks

 

Graduate and Professional Programs

Educational Testing Service (information on GRE, LSAT, MCAT, etc.):
http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/

JMU Career and Academic Planning link to graduate school resources: 
http://www.jmu.edu/cap/

Researching Ph.D. Programs:
http://www.gradschools.com/programs/english_literature.html

http://www.petersons.com

http://www.AllEducationSchools.com

http://www.graduateguide.com
 
http://www.e-onlinecolleges.net

CampusAccess.com

Selected Books on Graduate School:
Peters, Robert.  Getting What You Came for:  The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.  Rev. Ed.  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.

Goldsmith, John A., John Komlos, and Penny Schine Gold.  The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career:  A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure.  U of Chicago P, 2001.

Johnson, W. Brad and Jennifer M. Huwe.  Getting Mentored in Graduate School.   APA, 2002 (geared toward social sciences).

Peterson’s Graduate Schools in the U.S. 2007.  7th ed.  Thomson Peterson’s, 2006.

The Complete Book of Graduate Programs in the Arts and Sciences.  Princeton Review, 2006. 

Frank, Fredrick and Karl Stein.  Playing the Game:  The Streetsmart Guide to Graduate School.  IUniverse, 2004.

Researching MFA Programs:
http://gradschool.about.com/cs/programdatabase/l/blmfaprograms.htm

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Creative_Writing/Education/MFA_Programs/

http://www.gradschools.com/programs/creative_writing.html

Researching Law School:
Law School Admission Council:  http://www.lsac.org/

 

Miscellaneous Career Links

Bookmaking and Preservation:
The Center for Book Arts

Editing and Publishing:

University of Virginia Rare Book School:  http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/

 

New York University, Publishing Programs:

http://www.scps.nyu.edu/departments/department.jsp?deptId=14

Magazine Publishers of America

Historic Preservation:
National Council for Preservation Education

 

Library Careers:
LIScareer.com

 

Non-Profits and Social Services:
Idealist.org

Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service

State Public Interest Research Groups

Secondary Education Careers:
JMU Education Programs:  http://coe.jmu.edu/

JMU Graduate Education Programs:  http://coe.jmu.edu/SecondaryEducation/seed_grad.htm

Teacher Certification & Licensure in Virginia:  http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/newvdoe/teached.html

Teacher Certification & Licensure in West Virginia:

http://wvde.state.wv.us/certification/

www.hotjobs.com

www.monster.com

http://secondary.school.jobs.topusajobs.com/

 
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