Startups, Entrepreneurship & Freelancing

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The following sampling of tools and resources should be combined with your own research. We suggest you use targeted keyword searches to find representative employers and opportunities, explore professional associations, join LinkedIN groups, and browse additional job board postings. Remember to also search LinkedIN and QuakerNet to connect with Penn alumni in fields related to your interests. Additionally, the sample jobs and employers are only a small selection of what’s posted in Handshake – log in to see much more!

We also suggest using the Career Exploration section of our website for more information or researching by major.

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Starting Out at a Start-Up as a PhD

February 17, 2020

Check out this post from the Carpe Careers blog published on the Inside Higher Ed website – written by PhD/postdoc career advisors for PhD students and postdocs:

By Joseph Barber

Transform Your Job & Internship Search with Data Analytics

November 21, 2019

Everywhere you turn these days you hear about companies using data to drive business strategy and decision making. You can use those same principles to optimize your job search. Best of all, you don’t even have to know Python, SQL …

By Tiffany Franklin

I-Corps Program at Penn for students and postdocs

September 26, 2019

The I-Corps Program is for Penn affiliated individuals to work with Penn-generated ideas and technologies. It is free to participants, and accepted teams receive grants of up to $3000 for their startup idea. The Fall course kicks off on October …

By Joseph Barber

Real Estate Technology

August 20, 2019

This is from a series of posts by recipients of the 2018 Career Services Summer Funding Grant. We’ve asked funding recipients to reflect on their summer experiences and talk about the industries in which they’ve been spending their summer.

This …

By Barbara Hewitt

Managing Product at a Mission-Driven Startup

April 17, 2019

This is the next in a series of posts by recipients of the 2018 Career Services Summer Funding Grant. We’ve asked funding recipients to reflect on their summer experiences and talk about the industries in which they’ve been spending their …

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Handshake is Career Services’ powerful platform for University of Pennsylvania students, postdocs and alumni.  Handshake uses cutting edge technology to …

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Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship is a resource for any Penn student who is interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. We maximize the …

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PCI Ventures supports the commercialization of technologies developed by the Penn community through company formation and entrepreneurial …

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