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What Can I Do With A Major In...
Rhetoric & Communication

* Skills and Abilities - What are the skills and abilities needed for careers in Communications

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

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Skills and Abilities
  • Communicate effectively
  • Analytical and critical thinking
  • Working under deadline constraints
  • Reading & summarizing
  • Knowledge of media strategies
  • Translation
  • Publicity/promotional writing
  • Linguistics
  • Applying theory
  • Forming perceptions
  • Reading graphs
  • Working with self-direction
  • Integrating diverse elements from others' ideas
  • Explaining concepts
  • Expressing self
  • Editing
  • Writing vividly and effectively
  • Composing
  • Reporting accurately
  • Proofreading
  • Conceptual ability
  • Synthesizing perceptions
  • Showing foresight
  • Creativity
  • Experimenting with & simplifying ideas
  • Generating ideas with commercial possibilities
  • Public speaking & speech writing
  • Writing with humor
  • Quick thinking
  • Imagining
  • Spatial memory
  • Forecasting
  • Seeing connections
  • Perceptive
  • Relate to abstract ideas
  • Continually conceiving, developing, generating ideas
  • Teaching, explaining
  • Selecting and training
  • Researching
  • Managing
  • Solving problems
  • Enlightening, guiding
  • Illustrating
  • Communicating
  • Planning
  • Editing
  • Organizing
Potential Career Paths
Career Area
Employment Settings
Sample Employers & Internship Sites
ADVERTISING
Account Services
Traffic Control & Print Production
Marketing
Advertising agencies

In-house advertising depts.
Bayard Advertising
 
Macy's
BUSINESS
Retail (Management & Buying) Retail/Service companies Lord & Taylor
Human Resources & Affirmative Action Corporations or agencies MBNA New England 
Consulting Management consulting firms
Independent consulting firms
Downtown Albany Business Improvement District

Accenture
Promotions
Marketing/Advertising
Various WQBK

Glamour Magazine
Real Estate Commercial real estate brokerage firms Marcus & Millichap
Underwriting Insurance companies State Farm Insurance
Management Non-profit organizations
Corporations
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
SERVICE & EDUCATION
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Universities
Overseas Language Schools
English Language Schools
Worldwide English Programs
University of Missouri

Park's Overseas Personnel Service 

English in the U.S.A 

Global Study Programs 
Teaching Colleges or universities
School districts
Teach For America
Service/Volunteerism Government programs American Foreign Service Association

Americorps

Peace Corps
University Student Services Admissions Offices
Alumni Offices
International Student Services
Women's Centers
Various
Community Outreach Community Centers/Agencies Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood
Training & Development Corporations M&T Bank
TELEVISION
Programming-Production TV Stations and Networks WMHT-TV
 
ABC
News   CBS News
Promotion   WTEN Channel 10
Advertising Sales   WEWB 45
RADIO
News Local and national stations and networks WROW 590 

National Public Radio (NPR)
Advertising Sales   Albany Broadcasting Company
Programming   WAMC Public Radio
Production   WCDB 90.9FM
Promotion   THE EDGE 103.5/103.9 FM

Clear Channel Radio
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING
Reporting Local and national newspapers Albany Student Press
Editing   New York Times
 
Wall Street Journal
Advertising Sales   Metroland Magazine
 
USA Today
Marketing/Promotion   Times Union
 
Troy Record
BOOK PUBLISHING
Editorial   Random House
 
Little, Brown and Co. 

Delmar Publishers
Sales/Marketing/Advertising   The Readers Digest Association
MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
Writing & Editing   Atlantic Monthly 
Advertising Sales   University Sports Publications
Promotions & Public Relations   Self Magazine 

Sports Illustrated
TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Community Relations Tourist service centers International Center of the Capital Region

NYS Office of Economic Development
Tour Guides Tour/travel companies (domestic and international) New York Apple Tours
Hospitality Hotels, motels, restaurants, cruise lines, travel agencies, airlines Hilton Hotels
POLITICS - LAW - GOVERNMENT
Research Lobbying organizations NYPIRG
 
Civil Liberties Union (NY)
 
Citizens Action of NY
Publishing State & federal level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Writing, editing, event planning and publishing Professional Associations American Bar Association
 
NY State Trial Lawyers
 
National Criminal Justice Association
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Research Public relations and media services firms Interlock Media, Inc. 

Makovsky & Company
Fundraising Non-profit organizations Make-A-Wish Foundation
 
Easter Seal Society
Writing/Editing Public relations firms



Software Companies
Rubenstein Public Relations
 
M Frenkel Communications Inc. 

Banktrade.com
Media Liaison Public relations firms
Corporate PR department
Sawchuk Brown Assoc.

CSEA
Web pages (content or design) Web design firms
Specific companies
Media Logic 

Clough, Harbor & Associates, LLP
Special Events Planning Entertainment facilities
Hotels/conference ctrs.
Professional associations
Times Union Center
 
Marriott
BANKING & FINANCE/SECURITIES
Research Market research firms
Consulting firms
Buxton Co.

Charles River Associates

LECG, Inc.
Credit Lending Commercial banks
Regional banks
Savings & loan associations
The Bank of New York 

Key Bank
Financial Analysis/Planning Financial services firm
Insurance companies
Salomon Smith Barney
TECHNICAL WRITING
Writing & Editing Hi tech firms
Any organization or publication with a technical focus
Newsletters for professional associations
Web design firms

Software Companies
CDI Technical Services

Walker Digital Corp. 

Nat'l Institute for Engineering Ethics
 
Information Design Associates
 

RJ Associates
Technical Advertising Technical publications Scientific American
News Releases Large hi tech firms Lockheed Martin
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