Faculty of ArtAmplifier guides
How to start a freelancing or consulting business
In this guide, you’ll learn about people with Arts graduate degrees who now run successful consulting and freelancing businesses; play with different tools to help you get started; read about pricing strategies and compensation averages in different fields; and, discover the one-on-one supports you can get from the Arts Amplifier.
Research careers outside the university
Research has long been framed as a “strictly academic skill,” conducted exclusively within the purview of academia by tenured scholars in the university. In this guide, we hope to give you some ideas on how to challenge this misconception and how to develop different kinds of research-oriented careers outside of the university.
Strengthening professional relationships
In this guide, learn how to get over the awkward stages of trying to networking, how to start, strategies for cold-emailing/messaging potential connections, and how to maintain professional relationships.
Bringing community engagement into the teaching-intensive institution
This guide is based on a panel event hosted on December 2, 2020, where the Amplifier invited an audience interested in becoming educators to consider how community engagement sets them apart in a competitive job market.
Library
Curated lists
- See our list of recommended reading to help orient you to the culture of doing humanities/social sciences work in a North American university.
- See our list of resources on understanding entrepreneurship.
What else is on our bookshelf
- Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD (U Toronto Press, 2018)
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life (Knopf Doubleday, 2016)
- The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table (Hachett Book Group, 2019)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hachett Book Group, 2016)
- Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
Career and job application resources
Access our page of resources for finding and applying for jobs here.