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Many occupations today require a college educated individual who can write and speak well, solve problems, learn new information quickly and work well with others on a team This means that college graduates use their education in a wide variety of fields, and your future career may relate more to your personal career interests, work values and transferable skills than any specific academic major. However, the following list contains a representative sample of job titles of former graduates with an English major. Use this as an idea list, and remember that it represents some, but certainly not all, of the careers you might consider.

Students obtaining employment immediately upon graduation are usually those with the best college records and a willingness to relocate to find a job. Some of these jobs also require education beyond a bachelors' degree.

CWU Department of English

Account Executive	Actor/Actress	Administrative Assistant
Administrator	Advertising Copywriter	Analyst
Artist	Analyst	Attorney
Author - Fiction Non-Fiction	Assistant Scientific Writer	Bank Officer
Biographer	Book Critic	Business Manager
Circulation Assistant	City Manager	College Professor
Columnist/Commentator	Comedy Writer	Communications Manager
Congressional Aide	Copywriter	Corrective Therapist
Creative Writer	Critic, Art/Book	Crossword Puzzle
Curator	Customer Service	Desktop Publisher
Director	Radio-TV Commentator	Radio-TV Newscaster
Reading Consultant	Reporter	Research Assistant
Researcher/Pollster	Retail Sales	Technical Consultant
Technical Writer	Training Specialist	Editor, Film/Video
Editor, Magazine	Editor, News	Editor, Newspaper
Editor, Publications	Editor, Publications	Editor, Writer
Editorial Assistant	Education & Training	Educational Program Specialist
Entertainment Agent	Fashion Merchandiser	Foreign Correspondent
Freelance Writer/Consultant	Fundraiser	Greeting Card Writer
Hearing Officer	Hotel & Motel Manager	Human Resource Specialist
Human Service Practitioner	Humorist/Comedian	Information Abstractor
Insurance Agent	Interior Designer	Interpreter & Translator
Investment Counselor/Manager	Journalist	Labor Relations Specialist
Lawyer	Legal Assistant	Librarian
Sales Representative	Sales/Service Manager	Script Reader
Singer/Voice	Teacher	Social Welfare Examiner
Social Worker	Translator	Underwriter
Video Scriptwriter/Producer	Literary Agent	Loan Officer
Lobbyist	Magazine Writer	Management Trainee
Manuscript Reader	Market Research	Marketing Specialist
Marketing Writer	Mass Media	Media Planner
Medical Records	Narrator	Novelist
Paralegal	Paralegal Assistant	Personnel Manager
Playwright	Poet	Politician
Probation and Parole Officer	Product Manager	Program Manager
Proofreader	Property Manager	Public Administrator
Public Relations Specialist	Public Speaker	Publicity Assistant
Publisher	Publishing Assistant	Special Events Coordinator
Speech Writer	Sports Writer	Stockbroker
Talent Agent	Teacher (all levels)	ESL Teacher
Writer	Documentation Specialist

Influencing and persuading	Clarifying ideas
Problem solving	Comparing interpretations
Thinking independently	Creative writing
Presenting alternative view points	Making oral presentations
Developing hypotheses	Summarizing ideas
Editing skills	Oral and written communication skills

The Write Jobs www.writerswrite.com/jobs

IE3 Global Internships , http://ie3global.ous.edu/

The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network http://chronicle.com/jobs/

MonsterTRAK http://www.monstertrak.com

TV Jobs: Broadcast Employment Services http://www.tvjobs.com/index_a.htm

Job Links for Journalists http://www.newslink.org/

Advertising and Media Jobs Page http://www.nationjob.com/media