• Read the OCS Networked Job Search publication (pdf).
• Explore a field through a January Winternship or a site visit/trek to an organization during winter break.
• Read The Harvard Guide to Your Job Search publication.
• Read the OCS Navigating Your Summer publication.
• Attend Career Fairs.
• Search online databases for job or internship listings: 
  • Crimson Careers, iNet, UCAN.
  • LinkedIn Volunteer Marketplace.
• Use Jobtreks to manage your career exploration, networking, and job search plan.
• Consider Harvard's Campus Interview Program.
• Visit Harvard's Student Employment Office for term-time and summer employment opportunities
• Consider participating in MIT’s OCI Program if you are engineering concentrators (available through a reciprocal arrangement between our two institutions).
• Take stock of the skills you have and those you wish to develop using the OCS Skills Tracker.
• Learn about requests for internship course credit.

• Read the HES Build Your Network publication (pdf).
• Search online databases: 
  • Crimson Careers, iNet, UCAN.
  • Intern Hub (Massachusetts internship listings).
  • Vault (career guides and more).
  • LinkedIn Volunteer Marketplace.
• Use Jobtreks to manage your career exploration, networking, and job search.
• Consider Harvard's On-Campus Interview Program.
• Attend networking webinars.
• Attend Positioning Your Extension School Degree to Employers webinar.
• Attend Career Fairs.
• Explore ProFellow - a database with 1000+ fellowship programs
• Meet with an adviser

Ready to begin applying for jobs? OCS advisers provide support and resources to help you prepare for and engage in a proactive job search, whether within or beyond academia.

Nonacademic

• Read the OCS Building Professional Connections publication (pdf)
• Attend nonacademic job search workshops, such as:
  • Career Jump Start
  • Resumes and Cover Letters
  • Career Fairs: How to Stand Out
  • Effective Behavioral Interviews
• Explore options:
  • Versatile Ph.D. (successful job search documents, career transition narratives, career panel discussions)
  • Career Pathways (tailored resource for diverse industry clusters, targeted towards undergraduates, but relevant to grad students)
  • Vault (career guides and more)
  • Imagine Ph.D. (career self-assessment and exploration for humanities and social sciences)
  • myIDP (career self-assessment and exploration for humanities and social sciences)
• Attend Career Fairs.
• Search Crimson Careers (OCS online jobs & internships database).
• Use Jobtreks to manage your career exploration, networking, and job search.
• Consider Harvard's Campus Interview Program.
• Explore these useful external links, a compilation of career exploration and job search links for Academic and Nonacademic careers.
• For help with your job/internship strategy, come in to GSAS drop-in advising most Wednesdays from 1-4pm, or schedule an appointment through Crimson Careers.

Academic

• Attend Becoming Faculty workshops including:
  • Craft and Tailor Your CV and Cover Letter
  • Going on the Academic Market
  • Preparing for Conference, Phone and Skype Interviews
  • Preparing for Campus Interviews
  • The View from the Search Committee
  • Real-Life Stories from the Academic Job Search
    • Check the OCS Events Calendar for details
• Watch the “Going on the Academic Market” tutorial.
• Learn about Interfolio to manage your academic job search materials, especially letters of reference.
• Explore these useful external links, a compilation of career exploration and job search links for Academic and Nonacademic careers.