In order to make it easier for our students to start out on that overwhelming task of finding a job after graduate school, the Linguistics Program is happy to provide this page as a starting point for "The Great Job Search."  The following links are links to sites that publish available positions in linguistics around the world.  Local assistance and resources are also available on this campus through our own University of South Carolina Career Center.  The Career Center program manager for Liberal Arts programs of study is Vicki Hamby (777-3966), who maintains the The Arts and Sciences Career Development Program webpage.

• In looking for a job, The Linguist List Job site is one of the first places a new prospective must stop:  www.linguistlist.org/jobs/index.html
 
• Linguistic Enterprises, is a partnership between the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the Linguistic Society of America, this site aims to help academically trained linguists find private sector employment.   Outstanding page with good information, advice and job listings.  You may also post your resume on this site, participate in a discussion group, or consult a panel of experts on-line: http://www.lsadc.org/info/lingent/index.htm.
 
• And also a link to TESOL's job site which is www.tesol.org/careers/index.html
 

• The AAAL website features job openings in applied linguistics: http://aaaljobs.lang.uiuc.edu/
 
• Linguistic Society of America's job: www.lsadc.org/info/jobs-index.cfm
• Job opportunities and information from Linguistic Funland:  www.tesol.net/tesljob.html
 
• The following site (Dice.com) is a job search web site for computer professionals, with thousands of high tech permanent, contract, and consulting jobs nationwide.  Among these are numerous jobs for linguists.  If you type in "linguist" as a keyword in your search, you will likely pull up over 150 jobs. www.dice.com
 
• International Speech Communication Association http://www.isca-speech.org/
  Click on " jobs" for an international listing of jobs in speech recognition, speech processing speech coding, speech synthesis and more.
   
• The CV Doctor is a good site for advice and help with your CV/resume. www.thecvdoctor.com
 

Several resources the Career Center has available for students with advanced degrees. Please review and remind your graduate level students that the Career Center does have resources suited for their needs.


• 1) For those that want to work in an applied area related to their area of study: www.sc.edu/career/?id=la/la-web
• 2) For those that want to work in academia: www.sc.edu/career/?id=education
• 3) For masters candidates considering additional education: www.sc.edu/career/?id=webresources/graduateschool (You'll notice one link in particular....an excellent article titled "Questions to ask when thinking about pursuing a Ph.d." www.phd-survey.org/advice/advice.htm )
• 4) For PostDocs and Ph.d.s that want ideas of what they can do both in and out of academia. www.sc.edu/career/?id=webresources/phd
• 5) The Career Center Library also contains a binder titled "Careers in and out of Academia" that is targeted to Masters, PhD, Postdocs or University faculty who are interested in knowing more about how they can use their advanced degrees both in and out of the University setting. It is full of excellent articles adressing both topics.