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The Career Profiles in Linguistics section regularly highlights career paths taken by linguists. If you would like to recommend someone (including yourself) for a future profile, please contact Career Linguist. Kathryn Ticknor is an interactive sociolinguist and human centered design specialist.  As she shares in this interview, her work entails drawing from her background in communication, ethnography and social […]

This month’s World of Work post is about applications of storytelling, inspired by a great book that I just finished reading: Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Callahan (Founder of Anecdote, the world’s largest business storytelling company), and my having attended the Mariposa Storytelling Festival where I experienced the powerful work of innovative professional storytellers David Novak, […]

This Spring I have been giving a workshop with linguistics students around the country called Bringing Linguistics to Work. It is designed to get students thinking about the transferable skills they are currently acquiring and to call their attention to the problems and challenges that are already calling their attention as expressed through the classes […]

In this podcast, linguist Dr. Marissa Fond, the Assistant Director of Research at the FrameWorks Institute, talks about how she and her team develop communication strategies that help professionals (in this case public health informaticians) to describe their work. http://phii.org/blog/explaining-informatics Marissa describes the challenges of conveying nuanced topics in concrete ways, and explains why metaphors […]

The Career Profiles in Linguistics section regularly highlights career paths taken by linguists. If you would like to recommend someone (including yourself) for a future profile, please contact Career Linguist. Emily Pace is the Principal Linguist at Expert System USA. She earned her MS in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University, where she also studied French […]

Join the bravest of the Better Said Than Done storytellers on October 29, 2016 for our 3rd annual Night at the Improv. Unlike other improv and storytelling shows, we offer improvised storytelling. The storytellers in the show will not have stories prepared but, rather, will tell stories on the spot based on audience prompts. http://www.bettersaidthandone.com/2016/10/19/improvisational-storytelling/ […]

to cap off our series on the work interrogatives, some questions to make sure to ask in you job interviews, reposted from Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/question-you-should-always-ask-at-the-end-of-every-job-interview-2016-9 Job interviews should be a two-way street in which both parties — the candidate and the employer — have the same goal: to figure out whether there’s a fit. The […]

Forwarding information from some of my favorite career folks: Fall 2016 we’re launching a new, 10-week program for PhDs and graduate students who are preparing, or actively searching, for new careers beyond the professoriate. The group will combine the expert… Source: Job Search Course