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Department of Linguistics

Career Services for Linguistics Students

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The Macquarie Career Service staff are happy to assist you with:

  • One-to-one career consultations by appointment
  • Drop-in sessions in the faculty
  • Faculty-specific and cross-faculty career workshops, expos and events (register on CareerHub)
  • Career planning assistance
  • Interview practice
  • Resume reviews
  • Jobs on and off campus (register on CareerHub)


Contact us at level 2, C8A (Lincoln Building)
Phone:  (02) 9850 7372
Email:  careers@mq.edu.au
Web:  www.careers.mq.edu.au
FaceBookhttp://www.facebook.com/macquarieuniversitycareerservice


Career Opportunities for Linguistics Graduates

Linguistics graduates are employed widely in the world outside the university in such diverse fields as:

  • Language Teaching
  • Audiology
  • Speech Pathology
  • Lexicography
  • Public Administration
  • Creative Arts
  • Health Care and Caring Professions
  • Sign Language Teaching and Research
  • Sign Language Interpreting
  • Translating and Interpreting
  • Journalism and Mass Media
  • Adult and Child Literacy
  • Social Work and Counselling
  • Computing and Information Technology
  • Librarianship and Information Science
  • Book Editing and Publishing
  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Aids for the Disabled
  • Psychotherapy
  • Speech Research
  • Speech Technology
  • Workplace and Organisational Management.

Our graduates they have found places in these and many other careers where clear and effective communication and sensitivity to other people's needs are highly valued. After you have read the unit descriptions for the undergraduate courses, you will find some information about study patterns that give you a major in Linguistics, or Linguistics combined with other disciplines.

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