Placement: The Non-academic Job Search Roundtable

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Many graduate students and recent PhDs find themselves interested in pursuing career opportunities outside of the academy, and increasingly so the longer they spend on the academic job market without success. However, graduate programs often focus exclusively on preparing students for the academic job search, leaving them in the dark as to how they might apply their political science training in an alt-academic or non-academic job. This roundtable aims to provide insights for navigating a different job market from the one that most graduate students are trained for. Prior participants on this roundtable have included political science PhDs who have leveraged their training and skills to achieve meaningful careers in government organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, think tanks, research institutes, and tech companies.

Section

• Professional Development / Professional Development

Participants

• Amanda J Grigg, American Political Science Association (APSA)

• Carlos G. Scartascini, Inter-American development bank

• Katherine C Hoyt, Alliance for Global Justice