• "What Can I Do with This Major: English"
  

Common Career Titles for English from the Occupational Outlook Handbook:
Editors
High School Teachers
Postsecondary Teachers
Writers and Authors

Additional Resources - Careers in English

• TU English Department - List of possible occupations for English majors

Career Insider Downloadable Guides

• Vault Career Guide to Book Publishing
• Vault Career Guide to Journalism & Information Media
• Vault Guide to Education Careers
  
• Vault Guide to Media, Entertainment, & Journalism Careers
  
• Vault Guide to Screenwriting Careers
  
• Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers

Follow these instructions to download the guides listed above:

1. Log in to Career Insider (The first time you log in, you will need to follow the "New to Career Insider?" instructions. You must use your TU email address to create an account.)
   
2. Click on the "Guides" tab on the far right
   
3. Click on "All Guides (A to Z)" and scroll through the list to find the title you want.
   
4. Click the "View Guide" button to access the guide

Getting applied experience in your field is critical. The following resources will allow you to learn more about your department’s opportunities and process, as well introduce you to other major-specific internship posting resources.

TU English Department Internship Coordinator: Dr. Carl Behm


Research/Internship Opportunities:

• Baltimore Magazine
• Baltimore Sun
• Brick House Books
• Cadmus Communications
  
• Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity
• Chesapeake Home Magazine
  
• City Paper
  
• Consider interning abroad! Search for opportunities by using the keyword "internship."
• Cook Library
• Enoch Pratt Free Library
  
• Grub Street
• Hire@TU internship postings (search by major, employer, key word, etc. under the “Jobs” tab
  
• Maryland Public Television
• The National Aquarium
  
• Our own English Professors
• Poetry.com
  
• Press Box
• Script Magazine
  
• Style Magazine
  
• Sylvan Learning Center
  
• Towson Chamber of Commerce
• TU English Department: Internship Opportunities
  
• Young Audiences
  
• Waterman’s Gazette
  

The resources below are a starting point for your job search. In addition to making use of the Internet to do research, we encourage you to talk to people in the fields you are interested in (don’t forget to use TU’s Career Mentor Database) to learn more about specific opportunities and organizations.

• Hire@TU job postings (search by major, employer, key word, etc. under the “Jobs” tab
  
• Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com – search for “English”, “writing”, “editor”, etc.
  
• Journalism Now
  
• Media Bistro - Job Postings
  
• News Jobs
  
• Idealist.org - Non-Profit Jobs
• Write Jobs
  

The sample resumes are provided for your information. We encourage you to look at the resume sample for your major in addition to the other samples that are included in our resume sample database.

• Sample English Resume (PDF)
• Sample Resume Database
  

Professional associations offer many benefits to students, often including reduced-price membership, mentorship programs, “careers in…” information, job and internship listings, field-related conferences and publications, and much more. Be sure to check out sections on the associations’ websites related to students, education, careers, etc.

• ADE (Association of Departments in English) Home Page
• American Copy Editors Society
• Association of American Publishers
• The College English Association
• Magazine Publishers of America
• The Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• National Newspaper Publishers Association
• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
• Society for Technical Communication
• Writers Guild of America