Finding a Job With a Humanities and Social Sciences Major
Vault Career Intelligence (Brooklyn College Library subscription database)
Information on companies, internships, and jobs. Includes tips for preparing for a job search and blogs on a number of job-related topics. Students can create profiles in order to be recruited by employers and to get alerts.
Talent Desk
A search site that uses U.S. Census data. Enter your college major and find careers others have found with this major, their earnings, and job growth potential.
How Can Colleges Help Liberal-Arts Majors Enter the Job Market? Here's What You Told Us
December 11, 2018, Chronicle of Higher Education
“….professors in any field can — and should — help their students see the career applicability of their liberal-arts programs.”
One Way to Set Up Liberal-Arts Majors for Success: Focus on Skills
December 4, 2018, Chronicle of Higher Education
"One of the things I like in the 'Robot Ready' report, from Strada, is the way it takes an in-demand but vague job skill and then sort of reverse-engineers it to show the ways someone with such a skill might apply it in a variety of fields. The report shows, for example, that a person skilled in communications might eventually work as a grief counselor in behavioral health, as a social-media manager in marketing, or in management training in human resources."
