Phi Beta Kappa can help you navigate the search for a meaningful career.
Whether you just graduated from college or are already established in your field, find tools and resources designed to grow your connections and your career horizons.
Campus to Career for Liberal Arts & Sciences Majors
- Add a paid Phi Beta Kappa internship to your resume. We offer programatic internships through our national headquarters each quarter and writing internships with The Key Reporter in the fall and spring.
- Join our member-exclusive LinkedIn group to view job openings curated for arts and sciences grads around the country
- Look for Key Connections career networking events for recent grads each September. Several Phi Beta Kappa Associations also feature young professional groups that you can join.
- Read You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless Liberal Arts” Education from LinkedIn Senior Editor and Phi Beta Kappa Member George Anders
- Follow high-profile campus experts with great tips and suggestions for all of life beyond college like Wake Forest’s Andy Chan and Reed College’s Alice Harra
- Negotiate a Smart Start: Consider taking an in-person or online work shop to ace salary negotiations like this one from the American Association of University Women (Open to all).
- Find a mentor inside or outside your organization
- Grow competencies in these five key areas after college
- Create your personal brand
- Let the American Historical Association give you some ideas for what to do with that history degree
- Develop key skills to becoming an effective team member
Mid-Career Leadership and Sector Changes
- Build leadership skills and community connections by serving on a ΦBK Association board
- Develop better management skills
- Use your 30s to make these career moves
- Beat mid-career malaise with these tips from HBR
- Update your resume template for the next stage of your career
- Get advice on making a mid-career move as an academic
- Explore a change to your research focus
- Widen your research funding base
- Become a better mentor
- Find funding for a career change
Encore Careers
- Attend Phi Beta Kappa networking and cultural events to make connections with rising thought leaders and community shapers
- Read the Encore Career Handbook to explore how to make a living and a difference in the second half of your career
- Grow your career after 50
- Learn new technologies after 50
- Develop a passion project without quitting your job
- Find a bridge job or second career before retirement
- Take charge of the final years of your academic life
Our Favorite Job Boards
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Phi Beta Kappa's Member-Exclusive LinkedIn Job Board »
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American Association for the Advancement of Science Job Board »
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American Historical Association Job Board »
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American Philosophical Association Job Board »
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Academy of American Poets Jobs for Poets »
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The Partnership for Public Service's Go Government »
