Using LinkedIn for your Non-Academic Career Search
Tuesday, June 13th | 1:00 PM EDT | Register here to attend
Navigating the non-academic job market as a Political Science graduate student or PhD requires a different approach than the academic job market.
Join Natalie Jackson to learn how to use LinkedIn to search for non-academic jobs suited for Political Science PhDs. This APSA Careers Diversity Committee workshop will demonstrate strategies for using LinkedIn to identify relevant employment opportunities, cover how to read job descriptions to find good matches, and share practices to build your profile to stand out to industry recruiters and potential employers.
This APSA Careers Diversity Committee professional development event is welcome to all interested. Registration is required. Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org.
Meet Natalie Jackson, Ph.D.
Natalie Jackson is a research consultant and has held a variety of non-faculty positions in media, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions since earning her PhD from the University of Oklahoma in 2011. She has spent the last 15 years developing extensive expertise in the survey research process and quantitative political science.
Natalie’s research on how people form opinions, as well as on the election polling and forecasting landscape, has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Natalie received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oklahoma and was a postdoctoral associate at the Duke University Initiative on Survey Methodology. Her BA in political science and history is from West Texas A&M University.
She serves on the councils of the DC chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the National Capitol Area Political Science Association, as well as on the Careers Diversity Committee for the American Political Science Association. She is on the editorial boards of Social Science Quarterly and PS: Political Science and Politics. In addition, Natalie teaches graduate-level research methods at American University as an adjunct professor and is currently editing a book on nonacademic career options for social science PhDs.
