what can you do with a degree in linguistics?
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Whither Linguistics? Oh The Places You’ll
Go
Anna Marie TresterDepartment of LinguisticsGeorgetown University
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What’s in a frame?
Q: “You’re studying linguistics?”
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not really “what can you do with a degree in linguistics?”, but “what do you want to do”and let’s think about how linguistics can get you there!
Reframe!!
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OK, well, it’s really two questions…..
Career Education
Learn where others have found professional expression of their skills and training
Where the linguists are
Professional self-presentation
Bring your awareness of language and communication to the texts and interactions that comprise the job search Resume Cover letter LinkedIn profile etc.
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No, really
BRIGHTEN!
Where do people get jobs with a degree in Linguistics anyways?
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Give you a better understanding of the
world of work (research, teaching, government, business)
Provide a reframe for thinking about careers: Agency (something you build) Career is a research problem, one you
can bring your skills and training to
Leave you with some resources and strategies for bringing what you already love (linguistics) to your research and thinking about careers
My goals today - to give you:
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NETWORKING Prof. associations /Informational interviews
The job search process
APPLYING
RESEARCH Figuring out what you want to do
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NETWORKING Prof. associations
/Informational interviews
STORIES & the job search process
APPLYING
RESEARCH Figuring out what
you want to do
Story finding
Story listening
Story telling
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On your card
2 Skills 2 Interests 2 Dream Jobs
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The Linguistics Wheel
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Build a career
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Source: Karen Newhouse Beyond the Ivory Tower
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My interest in the
topic of professional self-presentation: As a teacher As a researcher As a linguist
About me & my interest
Impression
Management
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CURIOSITY!
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CAREER EDUCATION “Oh the Places You’ll Go!” (where people work with degrees in linguistics)
PROFESSIONAL SELF-PRESENTATIONHow Lx Can Take you there(job searching = texts: you know how to analyze these!!!!)
A chance to practice(Tell Me About Yourself activity)
Plan for today
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Sociolinguistics / Linguistics Academic vs. alt-academic
paths (post-ac) PhD / MA (MS) / BA D.C.
Some final notes on terminology
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Career Education
Oh the places you’ll go!
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Frameworks Institute
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MY internship!
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Innovation Strategy
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Smithsonian Institution
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Healthcare Communication
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Social Media strategy
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entrepreurship
Communication in the workplace or other institutional setting plays a crucial part in how that organisation functions, and when things go wrong, they can go wrong in a big way. Planes can crash, patients can die, suspects can escape because of miscommunication. I want to help you eliminate these potentials for error. As a trained linguist and anthropologist, I can look at the way your organisation works, and offer suggestions and advice for improvements and alterations, to help you work better.
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Language Advocacy
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Professional self-presentation
How Linguistics will “take you
there”
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Texts that comprise the job search
ResumeWritten “spiels”:
Cover LetterLinkedIn profile
Oral “Spiels”:Elevator pitch
“Pocket example” narratives
TMAY
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Academic job search
CV
Written “spiels”:Cover Letter
Academia.edu profile
Oral “Spiels”:Elevator pitch
“Pocket example” narratives
TMAY
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Deploying your stories
Informational
Interviews
Elevators
Netwokring EventsJOB FAIRS!
Job Interviews
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Some contexts to think about
Storytelling
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From: “I want this job”
To:“This is why you need me”
Cover Letters
Claiming Agency Shifting your deictic cente
Why? Because THEY need you!
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Networking
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Pocket examples
Little stories that SHOW you exhibiting qualities you are telling them you possess
For any event (job interview, informational interview, networking event) you want to have at least 5 prepared
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“Tell Me About Yourself”
Some practice
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Job interviews
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Look at the major turning points in your narrative Find a way to present agency, that positive
outcomes were the result of your: Decision Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities Strength of character Steadfast intention
NOT Luck Accident Someone else’s help (at least not wholly)
In your narratives
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