ACCUTE CareerLinks
Career Resources for English Majors
Pursuing Your Goals: Exploring Your Options
Where to Look for Jobs:
General Sites
Government Sites
Newspapers

Careers in Teaching:
Education Careers
Teaching English Abroad
Private Schools

Other Career-Specific Sites:
Culture
Public Relations Advertising Marketing
Film & Radio
Technical & Professional Writing
Law
Journalism
Editing & Publishing
E-Careers		 What Can I Do with My English Degree?
Career Research Sites This is a good placeto begin exploring your options. It lists career profiles, career counselling resources, and job information databases.
Books on Careers This section lists a variety of books on career choices appropriate to liberal arts majors.


ACCUTE Careerlinks is a web site designed for the Association of Canadian College and University  Teachers of English to provide information to undergraduate and graduate students and facultyabout career possibilities for graduates with degrees in English. It includesmaterial on careers in the academy and a wide variety of career opportunitiesoutside the university.


Books on Careers
  • Aside from Teaching, What in the World Can You Do?
  • Bolles, Richard Nelson. What Color is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job Hunters andCareer Changers. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed.
  • DeGalan, Julie and Stephen Lambert. Great Jobs for English Majors. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Publishing, 1996.
  • Giangrande, Gregory. Liberal Arts Advantage : How to Turn Your Degree into a Great Job. Avon,1998.
  • Griffith, Susan. Teaching English Abroad: Talk Your Way Around the World. Princeton, NJ:Peterson's Guides, 1997.
  • Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. Career Opportunities for Writers. NY: Facts on File Publications, 1985.
  • Munschaeuer, John L. Jobsfor English Majors and Other Smart People. Princeton, NJ: Peterson'sGuides, 1991.
  • Nadler, Burton Jay. Peterson's Liberal Arts Jobs : The Guide That Turns Learning into Earning.3rd Ed. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, 1998.
  • Schaeffer, William H. High Tech Careers for Low Tech People. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press,1999.
  • Showalter, English et al. The MLA Guide to the Job Search: A Handbook for Departments and for PhDs andPhD Candidates in English and Foreign Languages. NY: MLA, 1996
    • Where to Look for Jobs
    General Sites
  • Career Owl Career Owl is a new Canada-wide web-based electronic hiring hall founded as a non-profitservice by faculty members at the Universities of Alberta, British Columbiaand Western Ontario. The site enables jobcandidates to post resumes and other materials for employers to view andemployers to make job postings. There is also a large career informationresource site.
  • Work Web: Canada's On-line CampusCareer Centre
  • Canada Career Consortium
  • Workopolis Campus Work Link
  • WorkSearch A Government of Canada site designed to help you through the process oflooking for work.
  • Workinfonet Info on jobs, work and recruiting; learning, education and training; occupationsand careers; labour market information and outlook; self-employment; workplaceissues and supports; and financial help and issues.
  • Canadian Career Page
  • Hotjobs.ca
  • monster.ca


  • Non-Canadian Sites:
    • Government Sites
    CANADA
  • A Career in the Foreign Service of Canada
  • Public Service Commission of Canada
  • Public Service Commission of Canada Management Trainee Program
  • Federal StudentWork Experience Program


    • THE PROVINCES
  • ALBERTA: Employmentin the Alberta Public Service
  • BRITISH COLUMBIA: BritishColumbia Job Opportunities
  • MANITOBA: Access Manitoba
  • NEW BRUNSWICK: Employment Opportunities
  • NOVA SCOTIA: Dept.of Human Resources Job Opportunities
  • NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR:Public Service Commission Jobs
  • NUNAVUT: Nunavut Department of Human Resources
  • ONTARIO: GO Jobs
  • PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND:Public Service Commission Job Opportunities
  • SASKATCHEWAN: Public Service Commission Jobs Index
  • YUKON: Site of Yukon Government

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    Newspapers
  • Job Search Resource: Canadian Newspapers On-line
  • Careerclick.com A searchable database of Canadian newspapers.
  • The Globe and Mail Workopolis Offers "CareerAlert" a service that searches the Globe database for career ads to match your qualifications & e-mails you the results.
  • Career Builder A searchable database of job listings in 24 US newspapers.
    • Note: sites that post job openings are marked with this symbol: ♣
     
    Careers in Teaching
    Education Sites
  • ♣ Canadian Education on the Web Ontario Institute for Studies in Education's Clearing house Site
  • ♣Jobs in Education
  • Teaching in Canada The Canadian Teachers Federation guide to the teaching profession.
  • Teach Inc.  Affiliated with nine universities in England, Scotland and Australia, this organization offers Canadians the opportunity to attend one year of post graduate coursesto qualify as elementary and high school teachers.

    • Teaching Abroad
  • ♣ Interact Nova Group Canadian recruiting site for teaching Englishin Japan with Nova Group, a private language school.
  • ♣ GEOS Hiring Page English Language Teaching in Japan and elsewhere.
  • ♣ Dave'sESL Cafe
  • University of Calgary Teaching English Abroad Page
  • ♣ Work Abroad: Teaching Abroad without Certification
  • ♣ PusanWeb Based in South Korea.

    • Private Schools
    Note to Graduate Students: Independent schools often accept graduate degrees in lieu of a teaching certificate.
  • Canadian Association of Independent Schools Includes a Careers Board. For a listing for each province, check out the Schools On-line index page.
  • ♣ [US]Private School Employment Network
  • ♣ [US]Independent School Management Career Corner
    • Other Career-Specific Sites
    Culture Careers
  • Careers in Culture
  • ♣ Work in Culture Cultural Careers Council of Ontario
  • ♣ Talent Gallery An online recruitment system for the Canadiancultural sector, including careers in heritage, new media, visual arts & crafts, music & sound recording, film, television, radio &performing arts, writing & publishing.
  • ♣ CultureNet Job Notice Board
  • ♣ Careers On-line in the Heritage Sector
  • ♣ Youth International Internship Program The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Youth International Internship Program will provide youth with a first paid international work experience thatwill further the objectives of Canada's foreign policy, specifically the promotion of prosperity and employment, the promotion of peace and globalsecurity, and the projection of Canadian values and culture abroad.

    • Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing
  • ♣ Canadian Public Relations Society This site has articles on p.r.work, as well as Career File, an employment opportunities site.
  • ♣ Ad news A Canadian on-line magazine that provides information on the advertising and marketing industries. You can search employment opportunities by locationor job title.
  • ♣ Marketing Magazine Canada's national weekly publication dedicated to the businesses of marketing, advertising and media. You can access their Careers Page by using the "enter as a guest" login option.
  • ♣ Prosperity Site: lists media & marketing jobs in Ireland.

    • Film and Radio
  • Freelancing for CBC Radio
  • The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
  • ♣ Playback Canada's broadcast and production journal.
  • ♣ Indie Access The independent film directory for work in independent features, short films, music videos and industrials. Includes productions in Toronto, Vancouver, New York and L.A.
  • Canadian Screenwriter Magazine
  • Screen Writers and Playwrights Homepage
  • Writers' Guild of Canada WGC represents over 1,500 freelance writers working in film, television,radio and new media production in Canada. This site includes a variety of career sources, such as Advice for New Writers.

    • Technical and Professional Writing
  • Ivory Tower or Real World? A Canadian English PhD goes into technical writing
  • Ten Steps to Getting a Writing Job
  • Technical Writers: Labour Market Information
  • Writer's Block: the creative reference for today's writers
  • Writer's Block's Writing Links
  • The International Association of Business Communicators, Toronto Chapter
  • ♣ Canadian Science Writers Association
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  • ♣ Alberta  ♣ Eastern Ontario   Manitoba  ♣ Montreal ♣ South-western Ontario  ♣ Toronto  ♣ Vancouver Island  ♣ West Coast

    • Careers in Law
  • Law as Literature Slide Show
  • Careers in Law

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    Journalism Careers 
    Jobs Page:Your Link to Newspaper Careers Lots of resources (including US jobs for Canadians) from the Detroit Free Press
    Editing & Publishing
  • Citation: a web site for the Canadian Publishing Industry
  • Tips for Finding a Job in Publishing Association of Canadian Publishers
  • Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
  • So You Want to Be an Editor? Advice on this career goal from the Editors' Association of Canada.
  • Copy-Editing for Magazines
  • How Can I Get an Entry Level Copy-Editing Position?
  • What Exactly is a Copy-Editor? How Can I Become a Copy Editor?
  • Women in the Canadian Book Trade National Library of Canada's biographical sketches, each followed by a list of suggested readings or works.

    • E-Careers
  • E-Careers:The Last Revenge of the Liberal Arts Graduate From TheChronicle of Higher Education.
  • A Guide to Internet Careers from Wetfeet.com
  • ITJobs is a UK site that is specialized in IT jobs, such as technial writing and data entry



    • This page was originally designed by Professor Manina Jones, Department of English, University of Western Ontario. It is updated and maintained by Suha Kudsieh (s.kudsieh_at_utoronto.ca). Last modified on October 13, 2009.



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