As a Clark student, it’s likely that your gender identity may intersect with your career choices, extracurricular interests, and future goals. The Career Connections Center is here to help you explore the role gender may play in your job search and connect you to helpful resources. You can make an appointment with a career adviser to ask questions, build a job or internship search strategy, and learn how to navigate the resources available to you.
- Salary Negotiation Guide from the University of Iowa can help you during the salary negotiation process.
- Gender Discrimination at Work: How to Find It and Deal with It from InHerSight provides helpful information on what to do if you experience gender discrimination at work.
- Know Your Rights: Sex and Gender Discrimination from Workplace Fairness is an extensive guide to understanding what sex and gender discrimination in the workplace may look like and what laws and regulations protect you as an employee.
- Negotiating Salary 101: Tactics for Better Compensation from Women for Hire provides you with data from Job Search Intelligence and the U.S. Department of Labor, a salary calculator, and other tools to help you negotiate the salary you deserve.
- Career Contessa is a leading online platform for women’s career development and mentorship, featuring career development resources and articles, vetted jobs, career coaches, e-learning webinars, and a podcast. The webinar Setting a Career Vision and Aligning With Your Goals may be of particular interest if you are beginning your postgraduate job search.
- Black Career Women’s Network (BCWN) is a national career development platform fostering the professional success of black women. It features career tools and resources, access to career coaching and mentors, and a curated job board.
- InHerSight offers company reviews from women on hundreds of companies. The reviews reflect the things women want to know potential employers.
- Ms. JD is a nonprofit organization with a mission to advance women in the legal field and provide career development resources to women pursuing legal careers.
- ForbesWomen provides a curated list of Forbes articles with career advice, resources, rankings, and stories to help women advance their goals.
- Women Who Code is a nonprofit whose mission is to help women in tech build their careers by providing access to coding resources, leadership building opportunities, scholarships, and a tech job board.
- FairyGodBoss is an online career community for women, featuring tools and resources for career development, a discussion board for networking, and a curated job board.
- Women’s Job List was created to give employers a tool to promote diversity and inclusion within their workplaces, and to provide job seekers with easy access to those companies.
- Feminist Jobs Board is a project of the Feminist Majority Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit committed to educating and mobilizing folks around the political, economic, and social equality of all women. The board provides feminists with a space to find jobs that progress the status of women or encompass their passion for social justice.
- CareerWomen is the national leader in women’s online recruiting. Tailored to the needs of today’s working women, this job board provides easy access to top employers and recruiters who are actively looking to recruit and hire women.
- Power to Fly aims to fast-track economic equality by helping users expand their skills and connecting underrepresented talent to roles in highly visible sectors through access to an active job board, events, and career coaching.
- Women for Hire is a job board that connects women to thousands of opportunities posted by organizations that are committed to diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- Career Contessa Jobs believes in a holistic approach to improving women’s careers. Its team curates a job board with opportunities that can be filtered by industry, experience level, location, and more.
- She Runs It helps women enrich themselves in different perspectives, career paths, and stories by connecting them to opportunities at organizations vetted for inclusive excellence.
- International Association of Women is a global network dedicated to helping women dream, rise, and lead. IAW offers members virtual and in-person networking opportunities as well as career and professional development resources.
- American Association of University Women has been helping women pursue higher education for more than 140 years. AAUW has awarded more than $115 million in fellowships and grants to 13,000+ scholars, and its members work on local, state, and federal levels to support laws and policies that enable women’s success.
- National Women’s Political Caucus is a multipartisan grassroots organization dedicated to increasing women’s participation in the political process. NWPC recruits, trains, and supports pro-choice women candidates for elected and appointed offices at all levels of government.
- National Coalition of 100 Black Women advocates on behalf of black women and girls to promote leadership development and gender equity in the areas of health, education, and economic empowerment.
- International Alliance for Women in Music fosters and encourages the activities of women in music. A connective and informative global organization, IAWM increases opportunity and visibility for women in music.
- Association for Women in Science is a global network with 80 grassroots chapters and affiliates connecting more than 100,000 professionals in STEM with members, allies, and supporters worldwide.
- American Medical Women’s Association is the oldest multispecialty organization dedicated to advancing women in medicine and improving women’s health. AMWA membership includes physicians, residents, medical students, pre-medical students, health care professionals, and supporters.
- National Women’s Book Association is a national organization of women and men who work with and value books. WNBA exists to connect, educate, advocate, and lead in the literary community through a range of national programs and events in chapter cities across the country.
- Association for Women in Computing is one of the first professional organizations for women in computing. AWC is dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in the computing professions and has chapters nationwide.
- The Association for Women in Communications is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership, and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era.
- Financial Women’s Association is the leading and most credible association for women in the financial industry. Through FWA, you can access top industry leaders, learn through powerful programs, and network with peers and professionals.
- National Women’s Law Center is a professional organization that fights for gender justice — in the courts, in public policy, and in our society — by working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. NWLC has been on the leading edge of every major legal and policy victory for women for the past 60 years.