what jobs to go with English Lit and French degree?

I am hoping to study English Lit and French at university but was also wondering the career prospects??? Besides the obvious teaching

I am hoping to study English Lit and French at university but was also wondering the career prospects??? Besides the obvious teaching

There are an extraordinary range of graduate jobs which don't require a particular academic background—often, employers want to know that you have a degree with a 2.1 or a first, as it shows you can work at something for a while, and they'd like you to have that degree from a decent university, but they're not very interested in what exactly you studied or where you studied it. So there's a huge range of things you could be doing with an English & French degree—my first job after my degree in English was in medical e-learning.

If you come out of your degree with decent French you may find a whole extra set of opportunities. As a country we produce an embarrassingly small number of graduates with good foreign language abilities and there's definitely a need for those skills in business and government.

So the possibilities are kind of too numerous to try listing them, and you need to think yourself about which fields you might like to work in. What can be more important than the topic of your degree is your ability to show that you're interested in whatever field(s) you wind up applying in. This makes getting some kind of experience on your CV during your degree very useful—summer jobs, internships, university societies and so on can be a big advantage. It can help to identify one or two fields you might be interested in early on and see if you can get any opportunities in those.

The disadvantage of doing a non-vocational degree is that you don't get a ready-made and explicit system of career progression on graduating. But the related advantages are the freedom to define, with a little preparation and thought, a career that you personally want, and kind of flexibility that readies you for putting in applications for graduate posts in a range of fields at once if necessary.