Department alumni have pursued a wide variety of career paths and have thus acquired a variety of job titles identified on this page. Not surprisingly, this is a huge and impressive list. Browsing it may give you ideas and introduce you to some career paths that might never have occurred to you.
Alumni Career Titles
- archivist
- attorney
- author
- banker
- benefit consultant
- campaign manager
- chaplain
- childbirth educator
- communications specialist
- community organizer
- computer analyst
- contract manager
- copy editor
- corporate recruiter
- counselor
- cybersecurity specialist
- data analyst
- diabetes educator
- digital content specialist
- editor
- environmental lobbyist
- event planner
- farmer
- financial advisor
- flight paramedic
- freelance writer
- fundraiser
- grant writer
- hospice worker
- human resources director
- humanitarian aid worker
- image consultant
- instructional designer
- intelligence operative
- interpreter
- investigator
- journalist
- judge
- lawyer
- librarian
- manager
- media liaison
- minister
- news editor
- nurse
- occupational therapist
- paralegal
- park ranger
- photographer
- pipe organ builder
- playwright
- poet
- police officer
- portfolio manager
- president & CEO
- principal
- procurement analyst
- producer
- public relations coordinator
- reading specialist
- realtor
- recruiter
- reporter
- research analyst
- risk manager
- special agent
- small business owner
- social worker
- software developer
- speech language pathologist
- style consultant
- systems analyst
- teacher
- technical writer
- therapist
- TV producer
- web developer
- writer
For more information on translating English major skills to the job market, see this page.
For more information on careers in Linguistics, see this page.
For more information on career searches and employment advising, see what the Center for Career and Professional Development has to offer on the center’s web page.