This roundtable seeks to explore questions vital to the significant population of historians with Master's degrees, the faculty who train them, and the colleagues who hire them. Panelists will represent community colleges, a sector that employs many M.A.s; Master's-only graduate programs in public history that help train and place MAs, private secondary school employers, and the AHA Career Diversity Initiative. Several panelists will speak from the perspective of potential employers who will share what they look for in MA candidates for positions at their school or organization while others will speak from the perspective of preparation and placement, discussing how they prepare their MA students for jobs and areas they have found success placing students. Megan Jones from The Pingry School, a college preparatory country day school in New Jersey, will share what she looks for when evaluating the cv of prospective faculty members and interviewing potential candidates. She will also briefly discuss her own path into independent school teaching and provide some practical advice for making oneself an attractive candidate. Lauren Braun-Strumfels from Raritan Valley Community College will talk about hiring historians with an MA as adjunct instructors. She says many initiatives have focused on articulating the value of a history B.A. and encouraging career diversity for Ph.Ds, but the unique needs and skills of the history M.A. have too often been ignored. She will talk about what community college hiring committees are looking for, how a history M.A. can best position themselves on the job market, and the kinds of habits of mind and philosophies of teaching that MA program advisors should cultivate and MA graduates should emphasize in their interviews and applications. Mary Rizzo is Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies at Rutgers-Newark before which she was a public history practitioner, working for museums, historic sites, and nonprofit organizations. Rizzo will talk about how the American Studies program prepares students specifically for careers in public history and helps them gain internships and positions after graduation. She will discuss how the public humanities track is structured, including the use of internships, project-based classes, and a capstone project as well as classes on nonprofit management focused on historical and cultural organizations taught by professionals in the field. Finally she will take up the issue of internships and how programs can make them more equitable and available for students. Tim Herbert is an AHA Career Diversity fellow who will discuss what the AHA has learned from the Career Diversity Initiative about M.A. students' place in graduate programs. Of great interest to MA graduates is the data that suggests many PhDs actually work outside academia or in jobs that do not require a Ph.D. Herbert will also discuss ways that M.A. students should articulate their skills when job searching. The roundtable aims to correct common misconceptions about careers for historians with the M.A. and to help them better articulate the skills and strengths in history that their degree has helped them attain.