What Can I Do With an English Degree?
Eric Kuha | April 2007
There
are literally hundreds of possible career tracks for English majors.
Below are lists of possible careers and types of ogranizations likely
to hire English majors compiled from a number of websites that offer
career opportunities for English majors. These lists are far
from exhaustive. This page is mostly designed to dispell the myth that
the only thing that you can do with an English major is teach.
Career options
- Administrative Assistant
- Advertising Account Executive
- Campaign Manager
- Claims Examiner
- Communications Specialist
- Community Relations
Specialist
- Copy Writer
- Corporate Trainer
- Critic Marketing/Sales
Manager
- Customer Service
Representative
- Editor/Writer
- Editorial Assistant
- Education Director
- Fact Checker
- Fundraiser
- Historical Society Specialist
- Journalist
- Lawyer
- Legislative Assistant
- Librarian
- Lobbyist Researcher
- Management Trainee
- Media Analyst
- Media Buyer
- Museum Curator
- Nonprofit Administrator
- Personnel Trainee
- Production Assistant
- Public Relations Specialist
- Publicity Assistant
- Research Assistant
- Sales Representative
- Special Events Coordinator
- Teacher
- Technical Writer
- Volunteer Coordinator
- Web Designer
- Web Editor
- Web Writer
Private and non-profit organizations
- Advertising Agencies
- Book & Magazine
Publishers
- Community Arts Centers
- Community Service
Organizations
- Consumer Organizations
- Cultural Organizations
- Educational Institutions
- Financial Institutions
- Foundations
- Healthcare Facilities
- Historical Societies
- Hospitality Organizations
- Insurance Companies
- Investment Firms
- Libraries
- Market Research Companies
- Media (Radio, TV)
- Museums
- Newspapers/Magazines
- Public Relations Firms
- Research Organizations
- Retail Stores
- Telecommunications Firms
- Theaters
Government Organizations
- Civil Rights Commission
- Consumer Affairs Office
- Cultural Affairs
- Department of Education
- Division of Youth &
Family Services
- Legislative Affairs
- Motor Vehicle Department
- National Endowment for the
Humanities
- National Institutes of Health
- Peace Corp/AmeriCorps
- Political Organizations
- Small Business Administration
- Travel and Tourism Department