The troubling events of this week are serving as a reminder that now more than ever, we need to be engaging in challenging conversations and dialoging across difference. For me, it’s also a powerful reminder of just how much our skills as linguists are needed: we are trained to see systems (and not only how …
Category Archives: Professional self-presentation
Resumes are a Response
You linguists know what I’m talking about – they are a pair part. Remember adjacency pairs? From conversations I have been having lately (including among the post-Ac community), I have been hearing a lot about “turning one’s CV into a resume.” And “turning” strikes me not only as the wrong conceptual frame, but also as …
Moving the MRE in career stories
And no, I’m not talking about the kind of MRE you might see being opened in a YouTube video, I’m talking about the MRE that narrative researchers talk about, the Most Reportable Event. The moment in the story that the teller – if subconsciously – presents as the one to pay particular attention to. Every …
Understanding Why Linguistics is Misunderstood
This post is written by guest blogger Patrick Goodridge a linguist, language teacher, and writer based in Philadelphia, PA. Read more about Patrick below or on the Career Linguist guest bloggers page. Linguistics is the scientific study of language, though many who have heard of linguistics usually underestimate just how scientific it is. Those many …
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Making time for thinking about career
It can feel daunting to make time for the thinking about career given how busy we all are, and it is very tempting to kick this particular can down the road – to look ahead to a particular moment when things are going to “quiet down” when there will finally be time to “focus” and …
Rethinking expertise
Originally posted on Ph.Deli.:
I spend a great deal of my professional life coming to grips with impostor syndrome. Of course, empirically I appear to be doing just fine — I have a good and by all accounts hard-to-get job, and people I look up to find my ideas worth their time. Who knows, maybe…
Most viewed 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, reflecting back on the five most viewed pages and posts of the year here at Career Linguist. #5 What skills are cultivated by studying linguistics? A re-posting of some of the core skills cultivated by studying linguistics. Share your favorites using #lingustics #skills #4 Resources for jobseekers I pulled …
jobs: summer internships with ETS
2017 ETS English Language Learning Summer Institute: Paid Internships Available The English Language Learning (ELL) group in the Assessment Development Division of Educational Testing Service (ETS) expects to hire approximately 35 interns for the summer of 2017. POSITION OVERVIEW: ELL summer interns will produce materials for use on large-scale, high-stakes standardized tests …
Linguistics and Documentary filmmaking
http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/linguistic-science-meets-documentary-filmmaking-national-academy-sciences-retreat Natalie Schilling, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and Member-at-Large of the LSA Executive Committee, was profiled on the Linguistic Society of America website for her participation in a Documentary Filmmakers’ Retreat hosted by the National Academy of Sciences as part of their Science and Entertainment Exchange program. Natalie was the only linguist …
Tips and tricks for smashing an academic job interview
Originally posted on Rebecca.Jackson.Linguist.Blog:
It only seems like a few weeks ago that I was almost dejectedly wondering about whether or not I was going to get a job for the next academic year. I’ve now got one. I’m not saying this to gloat. I want to contextualise what’s happened so I…
