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- Episode #8: Victoria Hamilton
“Closed mouths don’t get fed.”
Victoria Hamilton is a computational linguist with an interest in language learning technology. She earned her Master’s in Computational Linguistics at Stony Brook University. Over the years she’s had a number of jobs, including as a graduate career coach and graduate coordinator at Stony Brook. She is now working as an analytical linguist at Grammarly.
Victoria Hamilton at LinkedIn
Topics covered:
– Music
– Life priorities– Employment during grad school– Being Black in linguistics– NetworkingDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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58 min - Episode #7: Human Language Technology (HLT) Industry Jobs (LCL Audio)
“Once you know what to search for in job titles, the jobs will come.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021; the moderator is Alexandra Johnston.
In this session, Kelsey Kraus of Cisco presents an overview of selected jobs in HLT industry, many of which make use of skills in NLP, data science, and coding. She covers how to find them and what employers are looking for. She also discusses skills and self promotion, tips on structuring a resume and how to promote your research. Along the way, she addresses the common questions about technical skills that are required (or not) for industry work.
Link to slides presented in this session
Kelsey Kraus at LinkedIn
Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing
Topics covered
– HLT/Human Language Technology
– LinkedIn– Hiring process– Job search– Linguists in techDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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36 min - Episode #6: Aine McAlinden
“I’m in the middle of my journey from coursework to career.”
Aine McAlinden is a recent graduate from Georgetown University’s Master’s in Language and Communication who is currently transitioning to a career in conversational design. She has experience in discourse analysis, professional communications, and social justice work, and she is also the host and creator of the podcast Language • n • Justice.
Aine McAlinden at LinkedIn
Topics covered:
– Sociolinguistics
– Conversation design– UI and UX– Informational interviews– Dialogue designDownload the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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49 min - Episode #5: Ginny Redish (LCL audio)“The career you have in 20 years may not exist today.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021, and the moderator is Nancy Frishberg. Our guest is Janice (Ginny) Redish, who has had an exciting and fulfilling career applying her love of linguistics to making written materials easy for the people who must use them. Over the decades since she finished her Ph.D., Ginny has led teams turning government regulations into question-and-answer conversations, revolutionizing user manuals to be task-oriented and user-oriented, and giving website visitors what they need in well-organized plain language. She has also written numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as 3 books:
Letting Go of Words
User and Task Analysis for Interface DesignA Practical Guide to Usability TestingGinny Redish’s website
Topics covered:
– Document design
– Non-profits– Job titles– Content strategy– UX writingDownload the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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48 min - Episode #4: Wendy Jacinto
“Learning how to present your linguistic experience in a way that a hiring manager can understand is really important.”
Wendy Kempsell Jacinto was an exchange student in Germany during high school, which deepened her interest in languages. She went on to study linguistics and graduated with a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Washington in 2015. Her research was on language mixing, particularly in the Spanish-English and Turkish-German bilingual communities. After graduating, she worked in Translation and Interpretation Project Management in healthcare settings for 6 years. She is currently a Linguistic Services Consultant at Acrolinx, a content improvement platform.
Wendy Jacinto at LinkedIn
Topics covered:
– Sociolinguistics
– Phonetics– Healthcare– Translation– Interpretation– Degree choices– Financial concernsDownload the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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45 min - Episode #3: Getting Your First Job Beyond Academia (LCL audio)
“Networking is actually just having quick conversations with people about what they do at work.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021. The moderator is Emily Pace.
In this discussion, we’ll talk with linguists who are in their first career role after graduating. We’ll talk about the transition from school to work, what they wish they’d known when job searching, and what it’s been like to job search during the pandemic. There are three panelists:
Sophia Chan (ETS Canada)
Mark Norris (Grammarly)
Tripp Maloney (inVibe Labs)
Topics covered:
Analytical linguistics
– Job titles– Job search– Dealing with rejection– Remote work– Networking– Negotiations– Transition to industryDownload the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 10 min - Episode #2: Marc Ettlinger“When you’re looking for a job, you have to get used to things not working out – it’s a numbers game.”
Marc Ettlinger is a linguist who is currently employed as a Linguistic Engineering Manager at Meta in California. He received a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University and a PhD in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 2008. Since then he’s been employed in the public and private sector as a linguist specializing in data research and analysis for machine learning, NLP systems, and AI.
Marc Ettlinger at LinkedIn
Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
ARLIS, Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (formerly CASL, Center for Advanced Study of Language)
Topics covered:
– Neuroscience
– Engineering– Government– Job hopping– Research– Data science– Psychological journey to industryDownload the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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56 min - Episode #1: Anne Krook (LCL audio)
“Find a champion. Find someone who smiles, but is ruthless.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021, and the moderator is Nancy Frishberg.
Our guest is Anne Krook: She is a former academic who transitioned successfully to the corporate and nonprofit workplaces: she helps graduate students and postdocs transition to non-academic workplaces and helps undergraduate humanities majors translate their skills into jobs. She works with companies and organizations on integrating younger women into the workplace, preparing them for success, and coaching them on interacting with colleagues.
She’s got a book called “Now What Do I Say?”: Practical Workplace Advice for Younger Women.
Her website is annekrook.com. Links to her website and other resources are in the show notes.
Topics covered:
– Faculty advice
– How to talk to faculty about leaving academia– Student placement– UX– Translation– Conversational design– NLPDownload the transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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Linguistics Careercast is the podcast devoted to exploring careers for linguists outside academia, through interviews with linguists employed in industry.