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Linguistics: Employment Prospects
Prospects.ac.uk's short page on career paths and destination statistics for graduates in linguistics.

Employability in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
John Canning's recent report for the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.

Ask-a-Linguist FAQs relating to 'Linguistics as a Career'
Part of the Linguist List's 'Ask-a-Linguist' service.

Career prospects for linguists
Posted on the University of Virginia's careers website.

Doing a PGCE with a first degree in linguistics
Information provided by Dick Hudson at UCL (applies only to institutions in England & Wales).

The linguistics of French, German and Spanish
A set of online resources for the initial training of school teachers, provided by the Committee for Linguistics in Education, and managed by Dick Hudson.

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Information on qualifying as a speech and language therapist in the UK. The RCSLT booklet 'A Career in Speech and Language Therapy' in .pdf format can be downloaded from here.

The Linguist List's Jobs Area
Searchable archive of jobs postings to the Linguist List.

So you'd like to... be a linguist?
A guide to reading matter for would-be students of linguistics, rather than for people already qualified in the subject, written by Andrew Carnie on behalf of amazon.com.

The Independent A-Z of Degrees
The Independent Education Section's 2004 A-Z of degrees subject entry for linguistics. There is a section on careers, but much of the information is recycled and is therefore badly out of date (e.g. Durham no longer offers degrees in linguistics).

Careers for Linguists
A short paragraph on the Monash University Linguistics website.

'How can learning about language help you?'
Four linguistics graduates share their experiences.

Who's hiring linguists?
A US-based site, but there are UK companies listed too.

MI5: the Security Service
Linguists wanted. It's 'not essential to have experience working with languages', apparently...

Train for a career in lexicography
MA in Language and Lexicography at the University of Birmingham.

Train as a forensic linguist
New MA course run by the Centre for Language & Communication Research at the University of Cardiff.

Careers for Linguistics Graduates
A survey of linguistics graduates from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.

Linguistic Enterprises
Careers advice and assistance for linguistics graduates (based in New York).

Rusty Barrett's resource pages
Lots of links to 'What can I do with a degree in linguistics?' pages around the world.

 

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