[updated 3/7/2008]
Career planning can include many things beyond looking for a job:
identifying the right organizations, networks and advice-givers
appropriate to your interests, getting exposure through volunteer work
and student groups, and pursuing further education. The following
offsite career resources cover a span of information from job databases
to career/educational
planning, in fields related to Symbolic
Systems and beyond. If there is another resource that you think should
be
available on this list, please email ssp-af at csli dot stanford dot
edu with the URL and
description.
Stanford Resources:
*Stanford University Career Development Center*Stanford's official university-wide job center for students and alumni.
Academics
After Stanford: Graduate and
Professional Schools
The Stanford Undergraduate Advising Center's guide to graduate and
professional education.
Stanford Alumni
Association - Career Resources
SAA's resource page for jobs, networking, and career information.
Stanford American Indian
Science and
Engineering Society (AISES)
Local chapter of AISES "seeks to help its members excel in the
sciences, premed, and engineering tracks offered at Stanford while
maintaining the delicate balance of work and cultural responsibility."
BASES:
Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students
Includes undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from all
schools at Stanford, promoting entrepreneurship through networking and
discussion. Site includes job listings.
Stanford Computer
Forum
The industrial affiliates program of the Stanford Computer Science
Department and Computer Systems Laboratory. SSP students are eligible
to register for the recruitment program.
FUSION:
Future Social Innovators Network
Stanford student group whose mission is "to
inspire, inform & involve the next generation of social
entrepreneurs by continuously exploring innovative approaches to public
service."
Haas
Center
for Public Service at Stanford
Click on "Fellowships", "Public Service Opportunities", and "Links" for
public service career resources. The "service4all" majordomo list is
also an excellent resource. See especially the Haas Center's
Technology page.
Stanford HCI Mailing Lists
Lists for distributing notices related to human-computer interaction,
including a jobs email list.
Stanford In Government (SIG)
Organization for students interested in government and politics. Site
includes internship, fellowship, and job resource listings. SIG
fellowships include positions related to technology and
e-government.
Stanford
Jobs
Site for employment opportunities available within the university
itself.
Stanford
Media X/CSLI
Has an industrial affiliates program with an annual recruitment day in
early March.
Stanford Society of Black Scientists and
Engineers
(SBSE)
A student-run chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers
(NSBE), SBSE provides "academic support,
networking opportunities, technical and professional development, and
direct outreach to the community."
Stanford
Society of Chicano/Latino Engineers and Scientists (SSCLES)
A student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
(SHPE) and Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES), whose
central purpose is "to increase the number of Chicanos and Latinos in
the academic and professional areas of Engineering and Science."
Stanford
Society of Women Engineers
From the Stanford Directory: "Stanford's student section of the
National Society of Women Engineers is an undergraduate and graduate
society that seeks to stimulate women to achieve their full potential
as engineers and leaders."
Technology
Assist by Students (TABS)
Connects nonprofit organizations and schools with Stanford students who
have technology skills (e.g. web design) for service projects. Good way
to get exposed to the nonprofit and education sectors.
Undergraduate Philosophy
Association (UPA)
Works closely with The Dualist, Stanford's undergraduate philosophy
journal, to plan events for undergraduates interested in philosophy.
Stanford Undergraduate
Psychology
Association (SUPA)
From the website: "A student-run organization which was established in
hopes of bringing undergraduate students majoring in psychology and
related areas of study into direct contact with faculty members and
graduate students." Good entry point for doing research in psychology.
Women in Computer Science
(WICS)
From the website: "WICS is an organization within the Stanford Computer
Science Department
whose purpose is to support and promote women in Computer Science by
encouraging discussion and raising awareness of the issues they face."
Events and an email list.
Other Resources:
American
Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Professional organization for research in artificial intelligence. Open
memberships and job listings.
American Philosophical
Association (APA)
The main professional organization for philosophers in the United
States. Student associate memberships.
American Psychological Society (APS)
Professional organization for academic psychologists. Student
memberships and programs.
Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
From the website: "THE international
scientific and professional society for people working on problems
involving
natural language and computation."
Assoication
for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human
Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)
International professional organization for human-computer interaction
specialists, part of the larger ACM which has Special Interest Groups
for many other specialties, including artificial intelligence. The
annual CHI conference is the most important gathering for
HCI. SIGCHI has a jobs email list for members. See also BayCHI
(below).
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)
Organization for studies in
logic. Student memberships available.
BayCHI
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Association for Computing
Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM
SIGCHI) -- see above. Local meetings are good networking opportunities.
Has a Job Bank service for members.
California
- State Personnel Board
Site for information on state government opportunities in California.
Call
to Serve
Call to Serve is a site run by the Partnership for Public Service that
provides information about federal jobs and internships in
student-friendly language. It also offers guidance to help you
navigate the sites below. Check out www.bestplacestowork.org
for a comprehensive ranking of federal agencies.
Cognitive Science Society
Promotes scientific interchange between researchers in different
disciplines interested in the human mind. Site contains links to
graduate
programs in cognitive science.
CompassPoint
Nonprofit Resources
Includes many links to resource sites for nonprofit jobs and careers;
links include Opportunity NOCs and YNPN.
Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
A network of professionals who "work to
direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications
of
information technology and how those choices affect society."
Conferences and local meetings in Palo Alto. Student memberships
available.
craigslist
An online community and classifieds website that began in the Bay Area,
now with sections for many cities.
"Entrepreneurship"
at La Crosse Public Library
"Librarian's Choice" selection and review of websites on
entrepreneurship and small business.
Future
Salon
Bay Area group that holds periodic meetings to discuss technologies on
the horizon and their potential impacts. Networked with other
futurist organizations.
"Graduate School" at
About.com
Graduate school can be (and even lead to) a paying job.
Links about graduate school and the academic job market.
Site for Action Without Borders, a general resource for the nonprofit sector, including many job and internship listings. Sponsors an annual conference each spring for students interested in public service careers.
International City/County Management Association
From the website: "The ICMA JobCenter offers a database of current job openings for local government professionals. Positions listed are with local governments, related local government and nonprofit organizations, and universities."
Job
Resource powered by AfterCollege
An outside
job service, with a section for SSP students; especially geared toward
national security and related industries, but includes lots of jobs
from the commercial sector of computing also.
Linguistic
Society of America (LSA)
Professional organization for linguists. Student memberships
available.
LinkedIn
An online social networking site for making professional contacts,
founded by SSP alum Reid Hoffman ('89).
MIT CogNet
A "brain and cognitive sciences community online" run by MIT Press.
Lists of graduate
programs and (generally post-Ph.D.) jobs.
Monster.com
A large online,
commercial jobs database. Includes PublicService.Monster.com
for public service jobs.
Nonprofit
Technology Enterprise Network (N-TEN)
Organization for people in the nonprofit technology community. See also
the Yahoo Group Nonprofit
Tech Jobs.
Open
Directory - Business:Employment:Job Search
Large collection of job resource links.
Open
Directory - Computers:Open Source:Employment
Job resource links in the free software/open source sector.
Partnership for Public Service - Work for
USA
Website and organization devoted to promoting employment with the U.S.
Government.
PhDs.org: Science, Math, and Engineering Career
Resources
Good resource site for those considering graduate school, with interactive rankings tool for graduate programs in different fields.
PlaNetwork
San Francisco-based organization that brings together techies, fuzzies,
and tezzies interested in social and environmental justice. Annual
conference and monthly networking meeting.
The
Psychonomic Society
Facilitates the exchange of information among cognitive psychology
researchers through journals and conferences. Membership requires
a Ph.D., but students may attend the annual conference.
Resource Generation
Organization offering resources and social networking for young people
with wealth, e.g., those who do not need to work to support themselves,
who seek
to put their money to use for progressive social change.
SDForum
An organization for people in the silicon valley software
industry, with many public events and special interest groups. Provides
"a venue for engineers, executives, researchers, technology leaders,
and
venture capitalists to exchange information on emerging technologies
and best practices."
Slashdot
Tech Jobs/Yahoo! HotJobs
Jobs/career site attached to the "news for nerds, stuff that matters"
online forum site, using Yahoo! technology.
"Social
Entrepreneurship" assembled by Carter McNamara
Guide to business/nonprofit/hybrid ventures, with many links.
Society
for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
The SJDM is "an interdisciplinary
academic organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive,
and
prescriptive theories of decision." Cheap student memberships and
an annual meeting which coincides with that of The Psychonomic Society.
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Professional organization for neuroscientists. Annual meetings
and student memberships. Member benefits include online Career
Services.
StudentJobs.gov
This government-run site lists opportunities for students interested in
temporary employment or federal internships.
TechSoup
Nonprofit Tech Careers Forum
"Share resources,
strategies for job-hunting in the
nonprofit sector and any other ideas you have about technology careers
in nonprofits."