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Life After a linguistics degree

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•About skills•Some resources•Opportunities are everywhere!!!

Life After a linguistics degree

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Who can tell me who this linguist is?

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Career as JourneyKey entailments of this metaphor•you are already on a path•not about finding your path, is about choosing your next steps, and forward momentum•“wrong” turns are absolutely recoverable•can get help navigating, but ultimately it your path •you are linguists - what other metaphorical entailments do you see?

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What do people do with a degree in lx?

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So how does “bringing linguistics to work” work?

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Business, Research, “Industry,”

Government, Healthcare

Communications, Teaching,

Education, and Non-Profits

About 10 grads in 10 minutes

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A story about a hike:

Walking a couple miles in the

journey metaphor

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School is an important part of the journey, but it only takes us part of the way

The map that we are given is likely to be incomplete for many reasons

it is likely to be a twist-y turn-ey road!!!

What we can know for sure

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Others who have been there before us want to help, they leave us clues, and we can seek them out!!

there are going to be times when you have no idea where you are & where to go next

we can pay attention to where we have been, there will be information about where to go next

We Have Tools!

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Linguist, Linguistify yourself:

Bring your awareness of language to the linguistic choices you

make when you present yourself professionally

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•Resume 

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Source: Karen Newhouse Beyond the Ivory Tower

Take stock

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Resume as a well-packed suitcase

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Get the “I wants” out of your cover letter

Shifting your deictic center being on the inside looking out,

not outside looking in

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Create some stories of your own!

Pocket ExamplesPocket Examples

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LinkedIn

Linguistics + X

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Tell Me About Yourself

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Network

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Join online communities

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Join prof associations / organizations

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my blog: www.careerlinguist.com

weekly posts featuring my musings about careers for

linguistsjob postings that I come across

career profilesrecorded lecture of “10 things” in case you forget, or want to

share!!)

Follow me on Twitter @careerlinguist

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Some last thoughts

My “ask”

Your career center Your professors

Alum

my book:Bringing Linguistics to Work

summer 2016

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