Majors and Careers: Foreign Language - Career Services, Skidmore College

What Can I Do With This Major?
Some ideas for what you can do with a major in Foreign Language.

Living the Liberal Arts - What is the Foreign Languages and Literature Major all About?
Exploring the links between liberal learning during college years and post-graduate professional opportunities, advanced education, and career development.

Monster Major to Career Converter
Listing of career opportunities related to your academic major.

Career Opportunities With A Major In Modern Foreign Languages
Information on careers benefiting from skills in foreign languages.

The American Association of Language Specialists
TAALS is a professional association that represents language specialists working at the international level, either at conferences or in permanent organizations, and determines their qualifications and standards.

Library Careers for People with Foreign Language Skills
Libraries that need foreign language skills, job opportunities and career advice from librarians.

Foreign Languages
Our Jobs by Field: Foreign Language collection of job listing sites, and networking, prospecting, and research resources.

InternCentral
Includes internship and summer job resources for Skidmore College students and alumni - paid and unpaid, local, domestic and international, undergraduate and post-grad. Updated daily. Please register to access database, and receive information on opportunities of interest.

JobCentral
The pathway to the Career Services Recruiting Program and to other internship and job postings for Skidmore College students.

Academic Resources

Foreign Language Department Web Page

Graduate School

Career Network

Sampling of Skidmore Alumni who majored in a Foreign Language. Contact information for these Career Advisors available on the Career Network (search by major).
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Marjorie Bleeg Clinical Psychotherapist	Elaine Halsey Vice President JPMorgan New York, NY

Amy Bonomi Show Director Advanstar Communications New York, NY	Sydney Hayes Artistic Director Pastiche Productions Boston, MA

Patricia Brennan Attorney West Chester, PA	Karen Johnson Auditor Johnson & Johnson New Brunswick, NJ

Virginia Brown Corporate Banking/Finance Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. Chicago, IL	Tracey Kyle High School Spanish Teacher Hayfield Secondary Alexandria, VA

Karen Factor WIC Nutritionist Lincoln Community Health Ctr Durham, NC	Kara Lewis Third Grade Teacher Dade County Public Schools Miami, FL

JoAnna Foyle Marketing Coordinator Media Contacts San Francisco, CA	Sharon MacDonald Artistic Director American Dance Institute Stockbridge, MA

Jane Gerrish Vocational Counselor Genex Services Portland, ME	Eleanor Morgan Dir Human Resources The Montauk Yacht Club Montauk, NY

Kathryn Gregory Controller Metcalf & Eddy Wakefield, MA	Alicia Oberstein French/Spanish Teacher Ransom Everglades School Coconut Grove, FL

Margaret Greif Personal and Business Research Sleuth Columbia, MD	Janice Pangrazzi Foreign Language Training & Translation Self-Employed Germany

Carol Hadler Clinical Social Worker Chapel Hill, NC	Frank Sieper International Marketing Analyst UPS Corporation Atlanta, GA