Career Resources

Job searches and career changes can be equally daunting. From researching career paths to honing your interviewing skills, these career tools and resources offer you tips, assessments, books, and other learning aids to help you along the journey.

Top Job Search Engines

Niche Job Boards

Freelance, Independent Contractors, and Positions with Non-Traditional Hours

  • AuthenticJobs.com: Full-time or freelance work for web designers, hackers, and creative professionals
  • techfetch: Consulting and contract work for IT and computer professionals
  • Flexjobs: Fee-based membership site for part-time, flex-time, and telecommuting work
  • Guru: Jobs for IT, creative, and business freelancers and consultants
  • MindBench: Management consulting job postings in the UK and Europe
  • OnContracting: Connects independent contractors with staffing agencies
  • PowerToFly: Caters to women job seekers in tech and remote positions
  • UpWork: Fee-based outsourcing and independent contractor job site
  • We Work Remotely: Remote work for IT professionals

The O*NET website offers you a database of career information and exploration assessment tools. Maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor, O*NET aids in researching professions, career data, and labor statistics.

Are you a PhD student or career changer looking to chart out your career path or career change? My Individual Development Plan (IDP) was created by Science Careers just for you.

IDP provides:

  • Exercises to help you examine your skills, interests, and values
  • A list of 20 scientific career paths with a prediction of which ones best fit your skills and interests
  • A tool for setting strategic goals for the coming year with optional reminders to keep you on track
  • Articles and resources to guide you through the process

The free Skills Profiler tool can help create a basic list of your skills and match them to job types that use those skills. The Profiler also provide words to use in your job search documents.

Alumni like you are always welcome to attend most MIT CAPD on-campus workshops, company information sessions, presentations, webinars, and career fairs. Advance registration is often required.

Alumni who have graduated in the last 24 months are eligible to schedule career services appointments at CAPD.

All undergraduate alumni, regardless of graduation year, are eligible for Prehealth advising appointments.

The MIT Alumni Advisors Hub is an online platform that facilitates one to one career conversations with alumni volunteers who are willing to chat and share career and professional advice with students of their fellow alumni.

As an Alumni you can offer advice or your experience OR you can receive advice from the MIT community mindshare of your fellow alumni.  

There's a robust list of Alumni Advisor consultation/conversation types –

  • Career Advising: (Resume Critiques, Mock Interviews, Job Shadowing Opportunities, Case Interviews, Portfolio Review Coding Interview Prep, Work-Life Balance) and more! 
  • Startup & Business Advice” (Team Management, Fundraising, Engineering Management, Product Design, Developing a Business Plan)
  • Admissions Advice: (Applying to Business, Medical or Law School)
  • Academic Advice:  (What to do with my major, Navigating my PhD, Writing a Dissertation, Politics of a Research Lab, etc.)

Log in with your MIT Infinite Connection account to start the conversations.