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Your major helps you develop knowledge, skills and abilities that employers seek.

To identify additional skills and abilities you have developed through your coursework, activities and work, consider using the reflection worksheets (accessible via B.hired > Resources) and/or Type Focus (accessible via B.hired > Resources).

Internships

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The Brandeis Internship Exchange is a convenient online tool to find and share internship opportunities.

Just log on with your UNET ID and use the advanced search to search internships by major.

Alum Experience

Language and Linguistics: Sample of Possible Occupations


Archivist
Teacher
Translator
Interpreter
Linguist
Diplomat
Writer/Editor
Producer
Proofreader
Curator
Historical Archaeologist
Foreign Buyer
Literary Agent
Story Editor
International Student Advisor
Historian
Employment Interviewer
Genealogist
Foreign Correspondent
Director
Book Critic
Lobbyist


1 Excerpted from O*Net OnLine, US Department of Labor by the National Center for O*Net Development

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