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10 Things you can do for your career
Anna Marie TresterCareer Linguist
www.CareerLinguist.com@CareerLinguist
What’s in a frame?
Q: “You study linguistics?”
Instead of “what can you do with a degree in linguistics?”,
“what do you want to do” and let’s think about how linguistics can get you there!
NAVIGATE your career!!!!
Reframe!!
Becoming more aware of stories
Storyfinding
Story listenin
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Story telling
10 steps you can take (this week?)
….
….for your career journey
#1 Linguist, know thyself!
By taking stock of the skills and abilities you are cultivating as part of your study of linguistics
# 2 Learn about your workstyle preference
Source: Karen Newhouse Beyond the Ivory Tower
#3 Educate Yourself About Careers
….by conducting informational
interviews
PhDs at Work Stories from other professional linguists (from
me shared on Career Linguist) From PhD to Life Lousy Linguist All Things Linguistic Others?
…by listening to linguists’ stories
(links from www.careerlinguist.com)
Linguistic Society of America Housed in
Washington, D.C. the LSA is the largest linguistic society in the world. Membership is required to search their jobs site, but resources accessible to the public include this piece on Jobs and Interviewing in Linguistics.
American Association of Applied Linguistics American Anthropological Association What others?
# 4 Join Professional Associations(links from www.careerlinguist.com)
Linguist List The LINGUIST List, housed at
Eastern Michigan University, bills itself as “The world’s largest on-line linguistic resource
Linguists Outside Academia Others?
#5 Join online communities (links from www.careerlinguist.com)
# 6 Talk about yourself:
By crafting a resume that tells a story
From: “I want this job”
To:“This is why you need me”
Talk about yourself: By creating a cover
Letter “from the inside”
Talk about yourself: by creating (at least) five pocket examples
Little stories that SHOW you exhibiting qualities you are telling them you possess
For any networking event, job interview, you want to have at least 5 prepared
# 7 Tell your stories!
Informational
Interviews
Elevators
External EventsJOB FAIRS!
Job InterviewsYOUR
STORIES
# 8 Network
Indeed (a powerful aggregate engine: you can set up a daily search for jobs
related to your key words) Idealist.org (jobs dedicated to particular issues and causes (e.g. env. policy,
women’s issues, NGOs, etc)) USA Jobs (Federal government jobs) Making the Difference: (A source for federal jobs and internships) OPM – Job Seekers (Federal government’s Office of Personnel Management’s
Job Seekers site) Opportunity Knocks (insight into the nonprofit world) Diversity Jobs (directory of current positions in companies committed to
diversity) NAFSA Job Registry (international education; open positions in a variety of
fields) International Career Employment Weekly (jobs in the US and overseas) Jobs in the Humanities and Social Sciences (jobs in secondary and higher ed.;
social science in industry)
#9 Search for jobs(links from
www.careerlinguist.com)
Get in!!!
#10 last but definitely not least
mlc.linguistics.georgetown.edu
Your career center (help them help you)
Alum from your dep’t
Career Linguist www.careerlinguist.com On Twitter: @CareerLinguist My book - from Multilingual Matters Press(god willing) in Spring 2015
What other sources?
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