Reply to What career path would you recommend for a humanities major?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "What career path would you recommend for a humanities major?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]People on this Forum are generally unhelpful.  Dear OP, what you do with your humanities major really depends on you and your interests.  What you major in may have nothing to do eventually with what you do after schoo.  I was a political science major, and today I work in international marketing and business consulting and I have no educational background in either business or marketing.  I learned everything on the job.

What is important is WHILE YOU ARE IN SCHOOL get a handle on the things you like to do, the skills you have, where you can put them to use and how you translate them into a job or some other means of earning income.

If you are interested in working in a business enviroment, seek out internships with organizations and companies that hire people similar to you.  For example, I have always been impressed with my interaction with the people at Enterprise Rent-a-Car.  They seem to offer genuine opporutnities for young people to gain managerial and business experience, and their customer service never fails.  Most recently, I spoke with the manager of my local store and he was happy there.  He majored in English in collge.

I also highly recommend, and I have posted this to another forum, that you buy the latest edition of "What Color is Your Parachute?" by Richard Nelson Bolles.  Read that book, do the exercises and follow the advice.  Also, work closely with your college career center.  The most important thing they should be able to do is give you the skills and knowledge you need to find yourself a job.

I think too many people graduate from college without any real idea of how to approach finding work and then complain "there are no jobs."  Yet, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there are over three million unfilled jobs and employers complain that they cannot find employees with the right skills.  As Bolles writes in WCIYP, and this was over 40 years ago, the system of matching employers and employees in the USA is just as frustrating for the employers as it is for the job hunters.

Good luck!
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics