Jobs with English Language & Literature degree?

could I be
-high school & sixth form teacher
-journalist/writer foir a magazine
-speech and language therapist
with this degree?
could I choose which English to teach if I became a teacher?
what else could I do?
does this give me any benefit over just an english language degree?

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You can't become a Speech and Language Therapist. You have to do a degree literally called "Speech and Language Therapy" to be qualified to be a specialist.

You can go into pretty much any job. Teaching you can, but you'd need to get a certificate (nationally recognised by institutions) that say you are qualified to teach (English) at a primary, secondary level.

For publishing and that kind of work, they normally require people with work experience in publishing first.

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username120877

Original post by Cool_JordH

You can't become a Speech and Language Therapist. You have to do a degree literally called "Speech and Language Therapy" to be qualified to be a specialist.

You can go into pretty much any job. Teaching you can, but you'd need to get a certificate (nationally recognised by institutions) that say you are qualified to teach (English) at a primary, secondary level.

For publishing and that kind of work, they normally require people with work experience in publishing first.

Agreed. English + relevant experience gives you a wide scope.

90% of the people on my degree went to do a teaching course after their degree.
5% a masters
5% other profession.

Those who went for something different usually just got experience in the given area! Advertising and marketing is particularly good especially with the amount of firms looking for people to run their social media! Looking at graduate schemes are always a good way of finding out what is out there if you are unsure what to do after your degree.

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returnmigrant

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English isnt a vocational degree - it doesn't train you to do a specific job like a degree in Medicine or Law does for instance.

Like most Humanities degrees, it isnt the subject knowledge that employers look for, its simply that graduates have a 'trained brain' and therefore think/write/work at a higher intellectual level than an A level student. English grads therefore end up in the widest possible range of jobs you could think of.

Look at these pages to see where some of their English students ended up -

Kent - https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/english.htm
St Andrews - http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/careers/wiki/English_-_using_your_degree

Reply 5

Carnationlilyrose

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I have this degree and I'm an English teacher. I teach both lang and lit. My first job out of university was trainee chartered accountant at one of the Big Four, until I saw the error of my ways.

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The Empire Odyssey

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Original post by chardabest

Agreed. English + relevant experience gives you a wide scope.

90% of the people on my degree went to do a teaching course after their degree.
5% a masters
5% other profession.

Those who went for something different usually just got experience in the given area! Advertising and marketing is particularly good especially with the amount of firms looking for people to run their social media! Looking at graduate schemes are always a good way of finding out what is out there if you are unsure what to do after your degree.

Ooh, what's a graduate scheme or do you know any USEFUL websites that could tell me? (This saves me time trolling through the Google and clicking on unrelated links :P)

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returnmigrant

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http://www.graduate-jobs.com/ has a whole variety of grad jobs - both formal 'graduate recruitment' schemes and the far more common 'normal' jobs that want graduates.

Another useful site to look at - http://targetjobs.co.uk/

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englishgal

Just thought I'd jump in on this thread: does anyone know if you're able to go for post grad law after completing and English Lit degree? If you can is it fiercely competitive?