Resources

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We have gathered a list of our favorite online career resources in one place. Whether you're exploring your career options, preparing to apply for jobs, or seeking to maximize your experience, you'll find valuable resources below to help you succeed.

Career Resource Links

To access our resources, explore the topics of interest in the accordions below. You can expand on each topic individually or all at once.

Career Self-Assessments: Identifying your interests, strengths, values, and personality can help you make choices when exploring campus activities, academic majors, internships, and careers. We offer the MBTI, CliftonStrengths, Strong Interest Inventory, and Meaningful Work Kit.
PathwayU: Choosing a career path or program of study can be challenging. PathwayU can help! This self-guided assessment helps you identify career paths, Stanford majors, jobs and internships, based on your interests, values and workplace preferences. Register using your stanford.edu or alumni@stanford.eduemail.
- Getting Started (:36)
- My Journey Page (:41)
- Assessments (1:07)
- Career Matches (2:46)
- Job Board (:52)

Careers

Forage - Engage in virtual mock work experiences designed by employers to help you learn about roles in marketing, finance, consulting, HR, social impact, public health and more. Register using your Stanford student or alumni email.
CollegeGrad: Career Profiles
Vault: Professions & Industries Click on Featured and select: All in the search box.
Industry Snapshots
AI Prompts To Identify Potential Employers Or Job Roles
myIDP: myIDP is a career assessment tool for graduate students and postdocs in STEM.
ImaginePhD: ImaginePhD is a free career exploration tool for graduate students and postdocs in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Career Guide for PhD Students and Postdocs
The Higher Education Administration (HEAD) Directory is a searchable directory of Stanford staff from across the University who hold doctoral degrees. Using this directory, you can connect with and learn from others with PhDs–humanists, scientists, social scientists, engineers–who have forged careers in various higher education administrative staff roles at Stanford. Click here to learn more about the career paths represented in the directory.
Career Truths - There is a lot of information and advice out there about careers and the path you "should" take to find a “good” career. It can be hard to navigate so much chatter, including myths around careers. Below are some of the common myths we hear on campus, the more nuanced truths, and helpful references.

Academics

Choosing a Major? What to Consider
Academic Advising: Exploring Potential Majors and More Ways to Explore
Humanities and Sciences at Stanford: Learn about majors and what alumni are doing with their majors.
Stanford: Guide on Getting Into Grad School
Stanford: Considerations for Graduate and Professional School

Stanford LinkedIn Alumni Page
- Stanford Alumni LinkedIn Group Open to Stanford students and alumni
- How to Connect with Stanford Alumni on LinkedIn Video
Alumni Directory
- To Access the Directory, sign up for your free Stanford Pass account.
- Getting Started with Alumni Directory
Stanford Alumni Mentoring Program (SAM)

Networking Questions for Employers
Questions to Understand an Employer’s Commitment to DEIB
Tips for Navigating Career Fairs
How to Prepare for Your Career Fair “Elevator Pitch”
Your Elevator Pitch
Coffee Chats: Informal meetings with employers in a variety of fields
ADPList.org: A global mentorship platform connecting mentors and mentees in design, product, AI, engineering, content, marketing and other tech and non-tech roles within the field of technology. The platform offers both free and paid mentorship.

General

Handshake Jobs and internships for students and recent graduates
Early Career Programs Internships and jobs
LinkedIn
Idealist.org Nonprofit jobs and internships
Wellfound Startup tech jobs
Built In & Built In SF Startup tech and non-tech jobs
Parker Dewey Paid short-term projects. Sign in using your stanford.edu or alumni.stanford.edu email.
Going Global International jobs and internships
Job Accommodation Network (JAN) Job Sites
Interstride Jobs and internships in the U.S. and abroad for international and domestic students and alumni
Americorps Year-long service fellowships
ProFellow Three-month and year-long fellowships

Population-Specific

Industry Specific

Stanford Campus Opportunities

Searching for On Campus Jobs
Stanford On- and Off-Campus Learning Opportunities Experiential learning opportunities, including internships, public service, research, and more
Stanford Research Opportunities
Haas Center Public Service Fellowships and Internships Undergraduate and Postgraduate Opportunities
Handshake On-campus and work-study

Faculty Job Search Toolkit: Access this comprehensive Canvas toolkit that covers all aspects of the faculty job search. You'll find resources, videos, and sample written materials from Stanford PhDs and postdocs who have secured faculty jobs.
Sample Application Materials: On Handshake, access sample CVs, cover letters, teaching statements, research statements, and more. Also available in the Canvas toolkit.
Successful Faculty Job Search Panels: On Handshake, access videos with advice and up-to-date information about the faculty job search comes from those who have just successfully completed a search. Also available in the Canvas toolkit. (Module 12).
Explore Different Types of Institutions: On Handshake, view panel recordings to learn about alums working at teaching-focused colleges and community colleges. Also available in the Canvas toolkit. (Module 13).
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD): The NCFDD is an independent professional development community of faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. Stanford PhD students have free access through Stanford's membership. Click here to activate your account.
SGSI: Jumpstart Your Academic Job Search: Offered each summer as part of the Stanford Graduate Summer Institute (SGSI), Jumpstart Your Academic Job Search is an intensive, week-long program that prepares students and postdocs for the faculty job market.
EDUC 343C: Preparing for Faculty Careers: This spring quarter course guides you through an exploration of the academic career and prepares you to launch your search.
VPGE: Preparing Future Teaching Professors: Preparing Future Teaching Professors gives you a chance to experience faculty life first-hand, by shadowing a faculty member at a teaching-focused college in the Bay Area.
Career Guide for PhD Students and Postdocs

Resume How-To Videos

Resume Samples and Templates

Cover Letter Templates and Samples

Job Search Emails

Declining and Accepting an Offer

LinkedIn Profile Checklist
Leveraging LinkedIn: A Guide for Connecting with Alumni
How to Connect with Stanford Alumni on LinkedIn Video
LinkedIn Learning An online training library, with 16,000+ career courses

To Access

Stanford login: Enter your @Stanford email address
LinkedIn login: Click the Sign in button in the upper right corner. Click Sign in with your organization's account. Enter your @Stanford email

Interviewing Questions

Interview Practice

Career Coaching Make an appointment for a mock interview
Big Interview & Directions The platform provides brief training modules and video practice to help you prepare for job, internship and graduate school interviews. Check out our Big Interview Student Handbook
- Students: Log in using your SUNet ID.
- Alumni: Visit Big Interview Alumni and log in using your @stanford.alumni.edu email and the organization code: CareerEd

Case Interviews

Management Consulted The platform contains 600+ case interviews, framework/math drills, online courses (including Excel and PowerPoint), and resume and cover letter templates to help you prepare for consulting fit and case interviews. Register with your Stanford email. CareerEd supports student use of this resource but does not endorse any services that require additional fees.

Finance Interviews

Wall Street Oasis (WSO) Prepare for investment banking, private equity and hedge fund technical and fit interviews. Register using your stanford.edu email. With WSO, you can:
- Practice interview questions from hundreds of IB, PE and HF firms
- Review templates and modeling tests used in Superdays and private equity interviews
- Engage in a networking course that offers email outreach templates and strategies for navigating information sessions and informational interviews
Free WSO Courses: Excel, PPT, DCF, RE Modeling & VC

Tech Interviews

Google: Tech Dev Guide - Interview prep for software engineering positions
LeetCode - A crowd-sourced list of 75 coding problems to prepare for tech interviews
Pramp.com

Where to Find Salary Information

Glassdoor - Salaries, bonuses, and total pay for multiple companies all posted anonymously by employees
Salary.com
Indeed: Salary Search
SalaryExpert
BuiltInSF - SF Tech and Startup Salaries
H1B Salary Database

Big Interview

The platform provides brief training modules and video practice to help you prepare for job, internship, and graduate school interviews. Check out our Big Interview Student Handbook.

Students: Log in using your SUNet ID.
Alumni: Visit Big Interview Alumni and log in using your @stanford.alumni.edu email and the organization code: CareerEd

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Career Self-Assessments

Take self-assessments as a way to know what you want in a career. We provide an array of self-assessments that help you clarify your interests and skills, develop a vocabulary to describe yourself as a professional, and establish a starting point for career exploration.

Learn More About Career Self-Assessments