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Careers And Employability

B.A. (Hons.) English graduates are sought for many kinds of jobs in which clear communication and effective articulation are important. Students of English make impacts in several fields of media and communication, from publishing and journalism to the arts, entertainment, and beyond.

English students are sensitive to the effects of evolving media and to the ways that social messages and cues to behaviour operate within different media, whether print media, film, television, or the internet. English students understand communication and become effective communicators.

Skills mastered by B.A. (Hons.) English graduates can be combined with other analytical, critical thinking, and vocational skills. English graduates who go on to postgraduate and professional study programmes find that their language proficiency and analytical abilities feed into their further training. English graduates find it very easy to move into quite specialized knowledge domains. A wide variety of career options are open to them, and graduates of a B.A. (Hons.) English programme can find success as published authors, publishers, editors, consultants, museum curators, researchers, and analysts.

In addition to expanding your mind and increasing your appreciation for spoken, written, and performed culture, studying the complex Anglophone cultural heritage could be of immediate relevance to the employment you take up after your formal education. You might even decide that you want to teach or do research in the field of English studies and work in a school, college, or university.

A graduate of a B.A. (Hons) English programme can go on to become a:

  1. Publisher
  2. Author
  3. Journalist
  4. Business Analyst
  5. Lawyer
  6. Consultant
  7. Civil Services Officer
  8. Advertising Director
  9. Professor
  10. Scriptwriter
  11. Policy Analyst
  12. Designer
  13. Dramaturg
  14. Social Media Manager
  15. Speechwriter
  16. Lobbyist
  17. Translator
  18. Public Relations Consultant
  19. Blogger
  20. Recruiter
  21. Photographer
  22. Artist
  23. Grant Writer
  24. Legal Researcher