Major
Careers
Related Skills
- Ability to adapt to other cultures
- Good writing and speaking ability
- Understand cultural diversity, different cultural values and habits
- Critical reader
- Ability to translate carefully
- Strong interpersonal skills
Contact
Career Industry Liaison
Megan Ruffin
(309) 438-2200
223 Bone Student Center
Internship Coordinator
Roger Thomas
(309) 438-7982
233E Stevenson Hall
Being Successful in the Field
- Research and Investigation -
The search for specific knowledge, from controlled laboratory experimentation to detective work, from scholarly endeavors to investigative journalism. - Organize: Information Management -The arrangement and retrieval of data and knowledge, from cataloguing to accounting, from computer programming to inventory control.
- Communicate: Communications and Persuasion -The exchange, transmission, and expression of knowledge and ideas, from sales to film news writing to illustrating, from teaching to performing.
- Emphasize: Humanitarian Service -The attention to physical, mental, or social needs of people, from medicine to social work, from labor relations to play therapy.
- Administer: Organization Management -The direction and guidance of a group in the completion of tasks and the attainment of goals, from politician to minister, from industrialist to school principal.
- Imagine: Design and Planning -The conceptualization of the future and description of a process for creating it, from the city planner to artist, proposal writer to architect.
Related Fields
Industry and Commerce
- Overseas sales representative
- Overseas manager
- Overseas researcher
- U.S.-based import/export officer or investment specialist
- Interpreter
- Translator
- Technical writer/translator
Academic and Professional
- International lawyer
- Medical researcher
- Health care professional
- Academic researcher
- Librarian
- International researcher
- UNESCO project worker
- Translator
- Interpreter
- Foreign language/Bilingual teacher
U.S. Government
- Agency for International Development (AID)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Immigration &Naturalization Service (INS):
- U.S. Customs Service
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- Immigration/Customs official
- Staff /Faculty at overseas U.S. school
- Foreign Embassy staff
- Overseas broadcast staff
- State Department staff/ Armed forces staff
- Translator
- Interpreter
- Intelligence Agent
Arts, Media, Entertainment
- Journalist
- Foreign/overseas correspondent
- Film producer
- Art dealer
- Overseas manager
- Translator/interpreter
Service
- Employee of overseas non-governmental organization
- United Nations agency and project employee
- UN translator/interpreter
- Overseas medicator agricultural worker
- Peace Corps volunteer
- Missionary
Travel and Tourism
- U.S. based travel agent
- U.S. hotel staff
- U.S. tour guide for foreign visitors
- Writer of tourist literature
- International airline employee
- International hotel staff
- International tour guide
- Agency for International Development (AID)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Immigration &Naturalization Service (INS):
- U.S. Customs Service
- National Security Agency (NSA)
Education
Approximately 100,000 people in this country work in the field of foreign language teaching. Over two-thirds teach in Jr. & Sr. High Schools, and the rest in colleges and universities, elementary schools and commercial and government-operated language schools with the greatest number teaching Spanish. In addition, a substantial number teach English to those who speak other languages as their native tongue. The teaching of English to speakers of other languages also offers expanding opportunities for employment abroad in government, academic & volunteer programs.