Is there a good resource on alt-ac jobs in Ireland for history PhDs?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
If there is, I've never seen it. I suspect there's not, b/c just like the ac market, the sector is way too small and niche for something like that to have been created. Happy to share the limited amount I've learned while knocking on the door though.
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Unless I massively misunderstood, alt ac shouldn’t be a niche thing, it just means jobs outside academia. I’m curious what other history PhDs (and other AHSS PhDs I guess) did if they didn’t go into academia.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Ah ok, sorry yeah I think that's the misunderstanding. I thought alt-ac = non-academic but still connected/related to your subject area. So for history, they're mostly in heritage, education, museums, libraries, tourism etc.
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Replying to @NiallOSuill @AdmiralHip
In terms of what people actually do: anecdotally, civil service and other public sector jobs are by far the most popular (mainly b/c they don't see a PhD and think 'overqualified', so it's easier to get them). After that, general white-collar business management/analysis
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Civil service would be great, too bad I think I need to be an Irish citizen for that. Not sure about other public sector jobs. And yeah I know generally white collar jobs but I wonder if any businesses in particular like to hire PhDs I guess.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NiallOSuill
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@StephenHewer would know better - you have to be a citizen to get in through the big open calls for particular grades on http://publicjobs.ie but not when you're applying directly for a specific job.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
I saw some posts that were IE only and some that were EU only. Those were public jobs. I also saw a secondary teacher post, but it had 'no visas' on it. Maybe you could get the job on a graduate scheme visa (1G) and then get sponsored after you're employed?
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I mean that’s the plan, but I wouldn’t want to search forever for a job on the grad scheme work visa only to then have to look for another that would sponsor me. Plus I’m apprehensive about that grad scheme visa, apparently a lot of employers will not hire on it.
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Try job fairs, if they have those again. But I heard good stories in the past about those. TCD had a bunch before covid. Also, email careers centre (Orlaith is really nice)
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I’m not going to anything like a job fair until there’s a vaccine but hopefully by the time I need a job that won’t be far off. Not sure if the careers centre is operating right now, or what their reopening plans are like but I will check with them.
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There might be digital/zoom job fairs? I hope
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