Careers in Foreign Languages

One of the main reasons for going to college is getting ready for your future career. But you might want to look at all the requirements that you need in the career you want first. Now days some careers do require their employees to have foreign language skills. Because of jobs require foreign languages college students more than ever need to take foreign language at college. College students future careers may even require a certain foreign language or multiple ones which is why I want WVU to gain more languages for their students.  Some of the fields that require foreign languages are business, communications, education, government services, humanities and arts, sciences, technology, and travel services. That may not sound like a lot but there are many jobs that fall underneath these fields and not all the fields are even listed here. To help further explain the kinds of jobs that require language skills I will list some careers within these fields. In the business field are jobs like international law, sales, import/export, fashion industry, and banking and financing. For communications there are jobs like photographer, editor, journalist, advertising, film and entertainment, and translator. In education some jobs are tutor, university/college professor, textbook author/editor, English as a seconded language teacher, and missionary work. In the government services field there are peace corps, diplomatic corps, social work, Intelligence (FBI, CIA), and United Nations. Historian, linguistic, actor/actress, theater, singer, theology, and philosophy are jobs that are in humanities and arts. Under sciences there are jobs like technical translator, researcher, medicine, anthropologist, engineering, and archeologist. In technology there are software designer and tester,  web developer, technical writer, web communications manager, and software consultant. Lastly in travel services there are national parks, airline industry, car rental agencies, visitor and conversion bureaus, and airline industries. For a complete list of these please visit http://www.vistawide.com/careers/language_jobs.htm.