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CAREER OPTIONS FOR ENGLISH MAJORS


JOBS FOR ENGLISH MAJORS

Develop career, community, and life skills!

Regardless of your specialization within the major, our English degree program will equip you with a plethora of marketable skills highly prized by employers. Reasoning and rhetoric, media literacy, critical analytical thinking and creative problem solving, ethical intercultural communication are essential to career effectiveness and to life outside work, including relationship building, community leadership, and democratic participation. Founders and CEO's of several Fortune 500 companies hold degrees in the humanities, and tech experts project that 97% of the tech boom will benefit students of English and other humanities programs. According to a 2012 IBM poll of 1,500 CEO's, the most important leadership skills in the always-changing world of business are creativity, adaptability, and a sense of social responsibility - in short, the stuff of an English degree. Some of the major marketable skills you’ll develop through our program include the following:

  • Writing 
  • Research
  • Creativity
  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Language and Literacy
  • Empathy and Cultural Competency
  • Organization and Time Management
  • Proofreading and Editing
  • Problem Solving
  • Independence
  • Persuasion
  • Teamwork

THERE’S NO LIMIT TO WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH AN ENGLISH DEGREE!

English majors are the chameleons of the career landscape, fitting easily and effectively into countless roles over the course of a career and shifting careers as they outgrow one sector and become competitive in another. The skills and experiences offered by our English degree program will prepare you for all of the following careers (though some might surprise you) and more:

english careers

THE USUAL SUSPECTS

SURPRISINGLY GOOD FITS

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