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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]English majors are AWESOME - I and almost all my hiring managers LOVE them.  Esp. if from a top school.  Nobody can think and write anymore these days..  English majors/LA majors have that ability to process.  Not that Engineers/Attorneys are dumb but something about writing and thinking go together :)  I'm a corporate recruiter.

The thing is, it's harder to "break" into the corporate/white collar world being LA/English.  You really have to be willing to start from the very beginning.  Temping is a really good way - it's the potential of someone who majors in this field that will catapault them upward but it does take time.  Sorry!

Other majors you hit the ground running - I'll do college recruiting for EE and CS all day because it's tech and you either know/don't know it.  But with LA/Eng, it's about your ability to think through things and it's more a general talent so to speak so you have to find your groove over time.  Rest assured, your kid will![/quote]

My Fortune 500 company has many thousands of jobs open and only two Tech Writer positions want English majors. And frankly, those tech writers don't need to come from a "top school", pretty much any school will check the box. Don't pay big bucks for your kid's degree, we don't care.

So... we don't think we need English majors to "think and write". You can teach an engineer to write well enough to get by, you can't teach an English/LA major to do tech stuff.

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