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•About skills•Some resources•Opportunities are everywhere!!!
Life After a linguistics degree
Friday, March 4, 16
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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So how does “bringing linguistics to work” work?
DeductiveReasoning
InductiveReasoning
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Business, Research, “Industry,”
Government, Healthcare
Communications, Teaching,
Education, and Non-Profits
About 10 grads in 10 minutes
BRIGHTEN
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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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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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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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