M.A. in Language & Communication
M.A. in Language & Communication

Career Resources

MLC’s Favorite Career Resources

​These resources are designed to help you start thinking about what a career means to you, what type of career you’d like to pursue, and how you might want to incorporate linguistics into your field of choice.

Brainstorming Careers: For Linguists

Advice and Suggestions

Organizations of Interest

These are some of the organizations that have hired linguists trained here at Georgetown.

  • Clyde Group: advise major corporations, nonprofit and advocacy organizations, industry-defining associations and household brands on public relations and public affairs
  • Hattaway Communications: bring together strategic focus, human insight, and creative execution to help businesses create meaningful, measurable impact
  • maslansky + partners: provides expertise in behavioral science, linguistics, and strategic thinking to help businesses achieve their goals through language strategies
  • Thread Strategies: provides fundraising consulting services to make fundraising more coordinated, supported, and effective so that social change organizations can maximize their impact

  • Nuance: a computer software technology corporation providing speech and imaging applications
  • inVibe: a full-service voice research company that helps healthcare organizations generate meaningful evidence and gain actionable insights by unlocking the signals in the human voice
  • Verilogue: focuses on language and communication between patients, physicians and the healthcare industry

  • Center for Applied Linguistics: promote language learning and cultural understanding by serving as a trusted source for language education research, resources, and policy analysis
  • Frameworks Institute: identifies the most effective ways to talk about complicated social issues such as criminal justice, education, climate change, and immigration by developing a deep understanding of public attitudes and thinking
  • Smithsonian Institution: outreach, public education, and research across 19 museums and galleries
  • UNESCO: promotes linguistic diversity and intercultural dialogue

  • Linguistics Career Cast: a podcast devoted to exploring careers for linguistics outside of academia.
  • Linguistics Career Launch: a program that is devoted to helping students and faculty learn more about careers that welcome linguists beyond roles in academia.

Finding Jobs as a Sociolinguist

Where can I search for jobs? These are some of our favorite aggregate sites and job search engines for specific industries.  These will get you started – but don’t forget to network, use LinkedIn, and seek out the HR websites for organizations you’re interested in!