- Make an appointment with your career counselor for help choosing or changing a major, identifying your skills and interests, and learning about the job market.
- Use a computer guidance program to assist with educational and career planning.
Jobs Outside Academia
(Taken from Perspectives, September 2003 issue)
Perspectives occasionally publishes ads for public history positions. A range of other resources listing job opportunities outside the academy are available:
Museum jobs:
The American Association of Museums, Aviso,
http://www.aam-us.org
Jobs at historical societies:
The American Association for State and Local History, Dispatch,
http://www.aaslh.org
Jobs in the federal government:
Office of Personnel Management,
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov. This web site lists all available federal jobs, so job seekers will have to do a subject search to find relevant listings. Many (but not all) history positions are classified under the "G5-170 Historian" job classification.
Jobs in state and local government:
Check the web sites of individual states and cities. A list of links can be found at
http://www.statejobs.com.
Archives jobs:
Society of American Archivists, Employment Bulletin,
http://www.archivists.org.
The National Council on Public History (NCPH),
http://www.ncph.org, and the Society for History in the Federal Government,
http://www.shfg.org, also post employment advertisements.
For further information about public history employment, see "The Humanities at Work," the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,
http://www.woodrow.org/phd/practicum/index.php and "Careers for Students of History,"* a joint publication of the AHA, the NCPH, and the faculty and students of the Public History Program at the University of South Carolina. See
www.historians.org for ordering information.
