Subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Education (https://www.chronicle.com) to learn about trends in higher education and to access job listings. Additionally, visit the following Web sites for job listings: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/jobs-center and https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/Job-List.
Read Language (https://www.linguisticsociety.org/lsa-publications/language) and Computational Linguistics (https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli) to learn more about the field.
Try to land a position as an instructor at a college or university.
Conduct information interviews with linguists and ask them for advice on preparing for and entering the field.
Join professional associations to receive a variety of benefits. For example, members of the Linguistic Society of America receive a subscription to Language, obtain discounts on books and journals, and can apply for tuition fellowships to the biennial Linguistic Institute. Members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) can access MLA Commons (https://mla.hcommons.org), a network linking members of the MLA; receive free subscriptions to association publications; and obtain reduced registration fees for its annual convention.
- Anthropologists
- Archaeologists
- College Professors
- Conservators and Conservation Technicians
- Cultural Advisers
- Demographers
- Economists
- Education Directors and Museum Teachers
- English as a Second Language (ESL) Teachers
- Ethnoscientists
- Foreign Service Officers
- Futurists
- Genealogical Researchers
- Genealogists
- Geographers
- Historians
- Historic Preservationists
- Interpreters
- Lexicographers
- Medical Ethicists
- Political Scientists
- Secondary School Teachers
- Sign Language and Oral Interpreters
- Sociologists
- Statisticians
- Translators