The Job Resource Center was developed in response to Alumni requests. It addresses both the need for Alumni to be able to, as Rachel said, incorporate something that is more than an academic experience onto their resume, as well as the very real question that many Alumni found themselves asking upon return home… What’s Next?

For many of you the answer to that question involves finding a job, a (paid) internship, or possibly graduate work, in your home country. How you leveraging your FSD experience to help you obtain this goal is an important part of this next step in your professional development. To assist in this endeavor the Job Resource Center will provide you a few tools:

1. Resume Building Techniques: this section contains our Resume Building Guide which details how to effectively leverage your FSD experience on your resume, and links to helpful sites on writing a cover letter and resume.
2. Finding a Job: the path to finding opportunities is often unclear. The advice and links in this section help give you some general starting points and landmarks on your path.
3. Job Postings: the links in this section are divided into 9 general categories to help you find opportunities in the areas in which you are interested.
4. Listservs: while most people view emails from listservs like they view spam, there is something to be said for being apart of listservs that deliver important information and job opportunities straight to your inbox. Check our list of listservs that we recommend (and some of us are even apart of).
5. Networking: you’ve heard the cliché, its all about who you know, and while we think there is more to it, meeting new people and getting involved in different communities is very rarely a negative thing. Check out these interesting networking opportunities.
6. Fellowships: we’re all fellows, but some of us are getting experience and getting paid for it.
7. Graduate Work: these are a grouping of interesting programs that we think are innovative and cool.
8. Interesting Organizations: there out there, we want you to find them, get involved with them, or just be inspired by them like we are.
9. Recommended Readings: these are some books that moved us, inspired us, or were simply great reads (…come on, there had to be a staff picks part of the website somewhere).

…And don’t forget to join the network of other FSD Alumni on LinkedIn.