Searching for Jobs

I post job opportunities that I come across @CareerLinguist

Other ways to search for jobs

Join listservs:

• Linguist List The LINGUIST List, housed at Eastern Michigan University, bills itself as “The world’s largest on-line linguistic resource.” The Jobs area of the site offers position listings in private industry and academia. People and Organizations includes links to 207 linguistic societies and professional associations related to Linguistics worldwide. The Linguist List also provides an FAQ on linguistics as a career.
• Linguists Outside Academia
  

Network, use LinkedIn, and seek out the HR webpage for organizations you’re interested in!

Educate Yourself:

• One tremendous resource for linguists comes from Victoria University Wellington: Career View – Linguistics
• Check out my workshops:
  • What Can You Do With a Degree in Linguistics?
  • Professional Applications of Linguistics
  • Whither Linguistics?
  • Linguists: 10 things you can do (this week?) to develop your career
  • Careers in Linguistics from University of Mary Washington
  • What Can I do with a Linguistics Degree? from CSULB

Join professional organizations:

• Linguistic Society of America Housed in Washington, D.C. the LSA is the largest linguistic society in the world. Membership is required to search their jobs site, but resources accessible to the public include this piece on Jobs and Interviewing in Linguistics.
• American Association of Applied Linguistics
• American Anthropological Association

Search:

• Chronicle of Philanthropy – research all things philanthropic
• Diversity Jobs – directory of positions in companies committed to diversity
• Foundation Center – research and apply for jobs at foundations
• Indeed (a powerful aggregate engine: you can set up a daily search for jobs related to your key words)
• Idealist.org (jobs dedicated to particular issues and causes (e.g. env. policy, women’s issues, NGOs, etc)
• International Career Employment Weekly (jobs in the US and overseas)
• Jobs in the Humanities and Social Sciences (jobs in secondary and higher ed.; social science in industry)
• Making the Difference:  (A source for federal jobs and internships)
• Mission Talent a recruiting firm who specialize in finding the best leaders for humanitarian and development organizations.
• OPM – Job Seekers (Federal government’s Office of Personnel Management’s Job Seekers site)
• Opportunity Knocks (insight into the nonprofit world)
• NAFSA Job Registry (international education; open positions in a variety of fields)
• International Career Employment Weekly (jobs in the US and overseas)
• Jobs in the Humanities and Social Sciences (jobs in secondary and higher ed.; social science in industry)
• USA Jobs (Federal government jobs
• Charity navigator org – learn about charities
• Glassdoor– a great one-stop shop for researching organizations

Get inspired by reading about how others have done it:

• Versatile PhD
• PhDs at Work
• Stories from other professional linguists (from me shared here on Career Linguist)
• From PhD to Life
• Lousy Linguist
• ™All Things Linguistic (Gretchen McCullouch is continually updating her story bank of inspirational entrepreneurial linguists)

Reach out to your community: Post “an ask” to Linguists Outside Academia

What are some of your favorite resources?  Would love to hear about them!!