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What Can I Do With A Major In...
Linguistics
* Skills and Abilities - What are the skills and abilities needed for careers for Information Science majors

* Potential Career Paths - a list of possible career path and links to potential employers

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Skills and Abilities
  • Analytical and critical thinking
  • Research skills
  • Memorization
  • Understanding usage, meaning, and structure of language
  • Understanding components of a complex whole
  • Familiarity with non-Western languages
  • Analyzing social and psychological aspects of language use
  • Making oral presentations
  • Identifying, describing, and analyzing linguistically phonetic, phonological, and syntactic structure
  • Writing clearly and concisely
  • Reading carefully and critically
Potential Career Paths
Career Area
Employment Settings
Sample Employers & Internship Sites
BUSINESS
Retail (Management & Buying) Retail/Service companies  
Consulting Management consulting firms
Independent consulting firms		  
Real Estate Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Firms Marcus & Millichap
Marketing    
Sales    
Management Non-profit organizations
Corporations 		 
HUMAN SERVICES
Speech/Hearing    
Crisis Intervention   Middle Earth
SERVICE/EDUCATION
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL)   Park's Overseas Personnel Service
Teaching Colleges or universities
School districts 		Teach For America
Service/Volunteerism   American Foreign Service Association

Americorps

Peace Corps
University Student Services Admissions Offices

Alumni Offices

International Student Services 		 
Training & Development Corporations

 M&T Bank
  Secondary public and private schools Teach For America
PUBLISHING
Technical Writer    
Editorial Magazines




Newspapers


Publishing houses		 Whitston Publishing Company

Harper's Magazine

Albany Student Press


Delmar Publishers
Advertising Sales   Delmar Publishers
Promotion/Marketing    
TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Corporate Travel Planner Corporations  
  Chambers of Commerce International Center of the Capital Region, Albany, NY
Tour Guides Tour/travel companies (domestic and international)  
Hospitality Hotels, motels, restaurants, cruise lines, travel agencies  
Flight Attendant Airlines  
ARTS/MEDIA/ENTERTAINMENT
Web pages (content or design) Web design firms
Specific companies		  
  Television & radio stations CBS News
LAW & GOVERNMENT
State & Federal Level Government Organizations  
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Research    
Writing/Editing    
Media Liaison Public Relations firm
Corporate PR department		 CSEA - Communications Department
Special/Cultural Events Coordinator/Planner    
BANKING & FINANCE
Stocks Brokerage firms Apex Securities
Systems Analysis Consulting firms Deloitte Consulting
Research Market research firms
Consulting firms
 Buxton Co.

Charles River Associates

LECG, Inc.
Financial Analysis/Planning Financial services firm
Insurance companies		 Salomon Smith Barney
Credit Lending Commercial banks
Regional banks
Savings & loan associations 		The Bank of New York
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