ImaginePhD
ImaginePhD Is a free, confidential career exploration and planning tool designed for the humanities and social sciences.
By leveraging national PhD career outcomes data, imaginePhD identifies 16 direct paths from the PhD, job families, and more than 450+ curated resources to help graduate students explore, connect, gain skills and apply for jobs. The tool includes a planning application that enables the user to map out degree milestones, funding needs and next steps for career and professional development. As career exploration and goal setting are iterative processes, ImaginePhD aims to provide a starting point rather than to facilitate closure on the career decision making process.
As of April 2026, ImaginePhD has over 85 thousand users from 90 countries and is used not only by those in humanities and social sciences fields, but also by STEM students, undergraduates, and other career seekers. All are welcome to use this innovative and free resource powered by the GCC.
Visit www.imaginephd.com
ImaginePhD speakers provide workshops virtually or in person on career and professional development topics, leveraging the tools and resources in the platform.
Workshop topics include:
Career Exploration for Humanities and Social Science PhDs, Creating an Individual Development Plan, Values-Based Decision Making, Job Search, Resume Writing, Networking, and Interviewing, Faculty Career Mentorship Training, Faculty Curriculum Training for Career Diversity
If you are interested in learning more about hosting an ImaginePhD speaker at your institution, please contact imaginephd@gradcareerconsortium.org
Imaginephd partners with scholarly organizations to provide career and professional development consultations, workshops and training for faculty, graduate students and administrators to enhance disciplinary career diversity efforts. Examples of some of our partnerships include developing conference attendee exchanges for national and virtual conferences or professional development opportunities to increase visibility of career diversity within disciplines, and provide opportunities for faculty to learn about PhD career development at the Graduate Career Consortium. Additional partnership opportunities include membership exchanges, collaborative presentations, workshop delivery, content creation and consultations.
ImaginePhD + GCC Partnerships
- The Modern Language Association
- Four GCC members were competitively selected to present unique workshops during the annual MLA meeting. Presenters were compensated for their expertise, and provided with MLA conference registrations to encourage the exchange of ideas between associations.
- Designing Your Digital Identity, Brady Krien University of Iowa
- Take Your Teaching Skills Anywhere: Communicating Teaching Experiences to Employers Beyond Academia, Melissa Bostrom, Duke
- Three Exercises for Culturally Responsive Career Exploration, Anita Husen, University of Texas at Austin
- Imagining the Future of a Humanities PhD Through a Dual-Career Track, Brenda Martinez, University of Texas at Austin
- Four GCC members were competitively selected to present unique workshops during the annual MLA meeting. Presenters were compensated for their expertise, and provided with MLA conference registrations to encourage the exchange of ideas between associations.
- The American Historical Association
- The GCC and ImaginePhD have partnered with the American Historical Association to create a call for proposals for GCC members to propose presentation topics to be presented at the AHA annual meeting in January 2023. Selected presenters will be compensated for their expertise, gain complimentary access to the annual meeting and the GCC will provide 4 GCC memberships to AHA members who can attend the regional GCC meetings free of charge. More to come....
- The GCC and ImaginePhD have partnered with the American Historical Association to create a call for proposals for GCC members to propose presentation topics to be presented at the AHA annual meeting in January 2023. Selected presenters will be compensated for their expertise, gain complimentary access to the annual meeting and the GCC will provide 4 GCC memberships to AHA members who can attend the regional GCC meetings free of charge. More to come....
If you are interested in partnering with ImaginePhD please contact: imaginephd@gradcareerconsortium.org
Support the career development of PhDs in the humanities and social sciences by becoming a sponsor, and keep this platform free and accessible for all. Sponsorship levels come with associated benefits, and we appreciate support at any level. To learn more about sponsorship levels and benefits, please visit imaginephd . To become a sponsor, please complete this online application.
If you have additional questions about sponsorship, please contact imaginephd@gradcareerconsortium.org