INSIGHTS
Career Linguist Insights
Discover reflections, advice, and stories from the Career Linguist community — exploring language, work, and career from diverse perspectives. Browse this archive for practical tips, inspiration, and unique insights to guide you on your professional journey.
Negotiating Salary
Inspired by the recent announcement by Lisa Munro and Kristi Lodge that they will assume the mantle of the #withaPhD chats from Jen Polk of From PhD to Life , I dusted off this…
HOW DO I START MY JOB SEARCH AS A LINGUIST
I have received a few inquiries this week from linguists wondering how to begin job searches. Some of their specific questions included: How do I narrow down what fields to…
An Improvisational Approach To Job Seeking
My ten years of experience in improv has taught me that we all can do things that on the surface may seem impossible. Collaboratively improvising scenes and entire performances out…
Shifting Your Deictic Center
When I tell people that I am a sociolinguist, the first response is very often “what can you do with that?!?!?!?!” And as Director of the MA program in Language…
We All Have Many Stories To Tell
At a story workshop yesterday at Lubbock Christian University, the group shared some phenomenal insights that really got to the heart of how a story listening, finding, and telling practice…
Telling Your Story
So you’re heading to a networking event, and you want to have some stories at the ready to tell about yourself. In her storytelling for business workshops, Jessica Piscitelli Robinson…