Altac (Alternative Academic) Careers: General Altac Resources

Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate explores the diverse, non-traditional career paths for PhDs within higher education, highlighting challenges, opportunities, and the importance of a values-driven approach to career development.

This book examines global perspectives on graduate employability, offering a new framework and insights into how employability capital influences career outcomes in a rapidly changing world.

This book provides practical advice and case stories for graduate students and professionals considering or pursuing alternative academic (alt-ac) careers, offering tools for navigating the job market and excelling in non-faculty roles.

Putting the Humanities PhD to Work offers practical career advice for graduate students, analyzing the changing academic workforce and encouraging both individual and systemic changes to support meaningful careers beyond the academy.

The Freelance Academic shares Katie Pryal's personal journey of creating a successful career outside traditional academia, offering practical advice and insights for those navigating the changing higher education landscape.

Chasing Chickens follows Rachel Neff’s journey from academic disappointment to career reinvention, offering practical advice, humor, and insights for PhDs navigating life beyond the classroom.

Leaving Academia offers hope and practical advice for PhDs transitioning out of academia, featuring personal stories and insights from those who have successfully built careers in fields like writing, consulting, and entrepreneurship.

This book explores the career paths of PhD graduates through a decade-long study, using the 'identity-trajectory' framework to analyze decision-making processes and the role of personal agency in navigating academic and non-academic careers.

This collection features candid accounts from former graduate students, highlighting the diverse paths to completing a PhD and the variety of career tracks available afterward.

Behind the Academic Curtain offers a practical, comprehensive guide to navigating academic life, from PhD candidacy to retirement, including insights on finding non-academic career paths.

The Handbook provides job seekers in all academic disciplines with essential advice, expanded coverage of non-academic career paths, sample resumes, and updated information on job search strategies and online resources.

Keys to a Successful Career in Research provides comprehensive guidance for research-oriented professionals on career-building strategies, including research design, grant writing, publishing, and leadership in academia and science.

Career Opportunities in the Nonprofit Sector explores over 70 diverse job roles within the nonprofit sector, offering practical guidance on career paths and resources for those interested in contributing to various causes.

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance (15th Edition) is a comprehensive five-volume resource offering up-to-date career profiles, guidance on job hunting, salaries, industry trends, and more than 2,500 online references, ideal for job seekers and career centers.

Moving On in Your Career guides postgraduate students and researchers through the process of enhancing career prospects, exploring both academic and alternative career paths, and developing job-search skills to leverage their academic research experience in a competitive job market.

PhD Alternative Career Clinic by Jane Y. Chin offers PhD graduates practical advice on navigating the job market, building mental toughness, growing a valuable social network, and understanding employers' perspectives, while revealing strategies for gaining transferable experience and improving career prospects outside academia.

So What Are You Going to Do with That? by Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius provides Ph.D. and M.A. graduates with practical advice on transitioning from academia to non-academic careers, offering career counseling, interview tips, and strategies for translating academic skills into terms that employers value, backed by real-life examples of successful career changes.

This issue of New Directions for Higher Education (111th edition) offers insights and information to help institutions develop targeted recruitment strategies for midlevel administration positions, featuring contributions from midlevel administrators across ten different areas, who discuss roles, mobility opportunities, necessary education and skills, and the challenges faced in the field.