Languages
Job Profiles
To help you make an informed career choice Prospects have compiled comprehensive profiles on jobs and occupations throughout most sectors of industry and commerce. Each profile includes the following information:
- Job Description and Typical Role Activities
- Salary and Conditions
- Entry Requirements
- Further Training or Professional Study Required
- Career Development Paths and Opportunities
- Typical Employers and Vacancy Sources
- Related Jobs
- Graduate Case Studies
- Useful Contacts and Further Resources
Career Options
Discover career options relevant to your degree subject on the Prospects website. Don't forget - a wide variety of career options are open to students with 'any degree' subject! Find out:
- What skills you have developed by studying your particular subject area
- What your job options are with your degree
- Which career areas do most graduates with your degree go into
- What further study options are open to you
- Useful contacts and further resources
Graduate Job Sites
Academics.com - English language career site for working in the German-speaking area. The website is aimed at foreign academics, researchers and junior academics.
AgencyCentral - Access to recruitment agencies for graduates in languages
Association of Translation Companies - With a database of member companies
Babels - Babels is an international network of volunteer interpreters and translators whose main objective is to cover the interpreting needs of the Social Forums.
British Council - Language assistant opportunities
Corinium Language Associates - Multilingual recruitment service
Euractive - Publishing jobs and internships in EU affairs, from junior to top-level positions, the EurActiv JobSite provides you every day with the hottest vacancies in EU circles.
European Selection and Recruitment - Specialises in candidates who are fluent in two or more languages with additional skills such as IT, Sales, Marketing, Technical and Scientific
European Union - List of websites to help you research opportunities in EU political institutions.
Eurecruit - Specialise in both permanent and temporary vacancies for people with foreign language skills
Euro London - Consultancy for language recruitment
Heriot-Watt Languages Department - Information on job and internship opportunities. Also testimonials from former students and videos on the kind of careers one can embrace with a degree from Heriot-Watt's Languages department.
IOL - Institute of Linguists job opportunities page
Language Matters - Multilingual recruitment consultancy covering permanent, temporary and contract jobs in London, the Home Counties and Europe
Lingo24 - Translation Agency based in Aberdeen and London and a memeber of the Association of Translation Companies
multilingualvacancies.com - An online job board solely specialising in advertising language jobs in London, across the UK, Europe and worldwide.
Talent4Europe - Pan-European recruitment portal
Top Language Jobs - Specialist language recruitment website for language jobs in the UK, London and Ireland.
Translations For Progress - Translations for Progress is an online forum for volunteer translation and a public service intended for the international NGO community.
Graduate Employers
Below is a selection of employers that recruit Languages graduates.
Franklin Templeton Investements
Francois Rabelais Univerity, France
German Parliament's Language Services Dept
Useful Links
Careers in Europe - Search for your ideal graduate job, internship or work experience placement and get advice on living and working in another European country.
EPSO - Sample recruitment tests to help students applying to the Directorate General Translation at the European Commission
European Union Association of Translation Companies - List of the key associations of translation companies in each European country, including a database of all the member translation agencies. Really useful resource for doing speculative applications.
Guardian - Languages Career Forum
Institute of Translating and Interpreting - The only independent professional association of practising translators and interpreters in the UK.
International Association of Conference Interpreters - The only worldwide association for conference interpreters.
International Federation of Translators - International federation of associations of translators, interpreters and terminologists gathering more than 100 associations from all over the world.
Languages at Work - Case studies illustrating clearly how people use languages in the world of work.
National Network for Translation - website on careers in translation and how to get started in the profession.
Proz.com - Directory of professional translation services by freelance language translators & translation agencies
Routes Into Languages - Translation placements database.
TranslatorCafe - Directory of Translators, Interpreters and Translation Agencies.
Translating for Europe - The European Commission is scouting for talented translators with native-speaker standard English to join its team. Want to use your languages daily and work at the heart of Europe? Watch this film to find out more!
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