Archive for March, 2010
I’m sorry I didn’t notice this before today, but SUNY Geneseo posted an editorial a couple of weeks ago about the limitless possibilities available to English majors. “College Must Do Better Job Directing English Majors to Career Opportunities” appeared in The Lamron, their student newspaper, on March 11. The centerpiece of the author’s argument is […]
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Tags: career fairs, careers for English majors, English degree, English majors, jobs for English majors, SUNY, SUNY Geneseo, The Lamron
Your “BS Detector”
In recent weeks, I’ve been visiting universities and talking with faculty and career advisors about how valuable a liberal arts education is. One of the advisors I met shared with me an insightful disclosure about her own education. She said she didn’t really learn to “read between the lines” when she was in college. […]
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Tags: 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College, Bill Coplin, critical reading, English majors
The English majors’ guidebooks into the job market on the shelves today—Great Jobs for English Majors, I’m an English Major, Now What? What Can You Do With a Major in English? and Liberal Arts Advantage: How to Turn Your Degree into a Great Job—offer up similar advice, including this consistent tidbit: figure out which […]
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Tags: business analyst, customer service, data administration, file management, jobs for English majors, jobs in industry
