Linguists: 10 things you can do (this week?) to develop your career

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

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