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Wondering
what doors your second language skills might open? There
are two places on campus to begin your search:
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 As
its name suggests, the Career Center helps you plan
for a career by helping you decide what kind of career
best suits your interests. The Career Center also helps
place you by teaching you about resume-writing, the
application process, and the art of interviewing. This
office can help you identify multi-national companies
and international service organizations which might
be of special interest to foreign language majors as
you seek your first position.
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In
the Foreign Language Lab, the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures keeps various materials about careers
in the foreign language area. Students are always welcome
to come in and browse materials.
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To
give you some ideas of the careers available to those
proficient in a second language.
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Wondering
what doors your second language skills might open? There
are two places on campus to begin your search:
-
-
As
its name suggests, the Career Center helps you plan
for a career by helping you decide what kind of career
best suits your interests. The Career Center also helps
place you by teaching you about resume-writing, the application
process, and the art of interviewing. This office can
help you identify multi-national companies and international
service organizations which might be of special interest
to foreign language majors as you seek your first position.
-
-
In
the Foreign Language Lab, the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures keeps various materials about careers
in the foreign language area. Students are always welcome
to come in and browse materials.
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-
To give you
some ideas of the careers available to those proficient
in a second language.
-
 Students
have gone on to graduate schools in: 
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French
German
Spanish
Classics
Law
International
Relations
International
Affairs
European History
Latin American
Development and Indigenous Studies
Education
Applied Linguistics
Medical School
Seminary
programs
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Others
have opted for the world of international business:
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international
marketing assistant for the International Dessert Partners
Division of General Mills
international
sales coordinator for the Keebler Company
export business
coordinator for Scentex Inc. in Chicago
assistant
for the International Bureau of Translations, Inc.,
translating documents and product manuals
assistant
vice-president, Bank of America
working for
Wrigley's in Munich
working for
Deutsche Bank in Chicago
Private Banking
Officer with Gainer Bank
working at
an international communications consulting company based
in Paris and Boston
Assistant
Vice President in the International Credit Department
of Credit Agricole in Paris, France
- A
career in Education might mean teaching at the elementary,
junior high, high school and college level, but it could
also mean a post such as those held by some VU grads:
- a
home based Head Start teacher in MT, dealing with a communal
religious group that speaks German
teaching English
at the College For Foreign Trade (Kulkereskedelm Foiskola)
in Budapest, Hungary
teaching English
in China
working with a
French literature computer data base at the University of
Chicago
serving as a university
language laboratory director
Service
organizations offer yet more opportunities, and some VU
alums have found themselves:
- teaching English and working as a
Lutheran missionary in BonyhÝd, Hungary
a volunteer in Tainan, Taiwan with
the Overseas Volunteer Youth Ministry
- Other foreign language students
have gone on to work in museums, advertising, the airline
industry, social work, television and radio broadcasting,
the ministry, publishing, international relations, foreign
service, the hotel industry, library and archival work,
journalism, the motion picture industry, foreign missions,
and the field of translation (see the links below).
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