Finding a job

Check out Boston University's Career Services.

Links to information about jobs for those with a background in linguistics

• See the the LSA career resources page.

• The Linguist List jobs page.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education has a Web site listing job openings in and out of academia. You can also do a keyword search (e.g., for "linguistics"): Chronicle Job List.

• Jobs in Canada are posted by the Canadian Linguistics Association..

• Linguistics Careers: A Guide to Locating and Applying for Linguistics Jobs in both the Academic and Private Sectors, distributed by UC Davis.

• For information about jobs in the teaching of English as a foreign/second language, see Dave's ESL Cafe Job Center, Mark's ESL World, and ESL Jobs World (which focuses on connecting English teachers with employers from around the world).

• For information about jobs in Applied Linguistics, see the AAAL jobs list.

• International jobs network.

• Companies that hire linguists for work in various aspects of speech technology (corpus developmnet, language modeling, scripting and programming, phonetic transcription, grammar checking, and developmnet of lexical resources).