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With the close of the 2019 fall edition of Career Camp, it’s reunion time again!! Welcome to anyone who has participated in Career Camp over the years!  Pop in, say hi, let us know what you have been up to these days and come and hear what everyone else is doing! Bring your “asks” Friday, […]

Excited to have come across this panel conversation with Cognitive Science and Linguistics grads from Dec 5, 2018. Here’s to broad exploration of career paths and creative application of our skills and training!

I often talk about how we linguists expect misunderstanding, and I think this is especially true when it comes to what we can expect people to know about our field. When we can approach the question “what’s linguistics?” as an opportunity to explain, the result can be something wonderful – as this excellent blog post […]

Fabulous post by Nick Gaylord about a question I sure get asked with some frequency!! What are your chances to remain academically productive if you take a job in industry? Source: Staying active in academia

Source: Sandwiches!

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 […]