Where Do You Find Nonacademic Job Postings?

A friend of mine who is close to finishing her PhD and is trying to figure out what she wants to do next (“To postdoc or not to postdoc….that is the question ”) emailed me recently looking for advice on where to look for job postings. As I compiled a list of the places I’ve looked for jobs (both for myself and for other friends and colleagues who decided to get out of the tenure track)¹, I realized that it might be useful to post it here for readers who are wondering the same thing.

British Columbia-specific:

• http://www.psea.bc.ca/employment.asp – has links to the job postings for all the colleges (and the colleges-that-turned-into-universities) in BC
• each of the universities’ websites (UBC (Vancouver & Okanagan), SFU, UVic, TRU)
• health authority websites (Fraser Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver Island Health, Interior Health, Northern Health, Provincial Health Services Authority)
• BC Occupational & Environmental Health Network http://www.bceohrn.ca/jobs/page/feed
• Government of BC jobs: http://www.employment.gov.bc.ca/
• Life Sciences BC’s career posting page: http://www.lifesciencesbc.ca/employment/

Not specific to BC:

• Government of Canada jobs: http://jobs-emplois.gc.ca/
• Charity Village: http://www.charityvillage.com/
• Canadian Evaluation Society: http://evaluationcanada.ca/site.cgi?s=4&ss=6&_lang=en
• Top Higher-Education Jobs http://www.tedjob.com/
• Nature: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/
• Workopolis: http://www.workopolis.com/
• Monster: http://www.monster.ca/
• Craig’s List

This is by no means even remotely a complete list, but it’s a start. If anyone has any links to good places to look for those non-tenure track jobs (especially if you have ones from other provinces/territories), please post them in the comments and we’ll add them to the list!

1. note that some of these links also include some tenure-track positions too [↩]