Linguistics Careercast

Mar 19 2025 69 ep. 60 mins 25

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Linguistics Careercast is the podcast devoted to exploring careers for linguists outside academia, through interviews with linguists employed in industry.

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Episode #67: Jobs in Tech (LCL audio)

Mar 19 2025 46 mins

This episode is titled “Jobs in Tech for Qualitative Researchers and Social Scientists”. Our moderator, Alfonso Sánchez-Moya, guides a discussion with panelists Lex Konnelly and Jyoti Iyer on how backgrounds in linguistics and social sciences can shape innovation and drive meaningful change in tech companies. In this session, you’ll learn how to utilize skills and expertise

Episode #66: Re-Finding Your Career Path (LCL Audio)

Mar 04 2025 50 mins

This episode is titled “Re-Finding Your Career Path”. Our three panelists, Nancy Frishberg, Emily Pace, and Laurel Sutton share stories of their careers and the decision points that led them to their current situations. This panel emphasizes the importance of always considering your next steps and career goals as you encounter unpredictability and many unknowns throughout your

Episode #65: The New Role of Faculty – Advising Linguistics Students (LCL Audio)

Feb 08 2025 76 mins

This episode is titled “The New Role of Faculty – Advising Linguistics Students”. Did you know that a draft-eligible baseball player has better odds of playing Major League Baseball than a new linguistics PhD has of getting a tenure-line job? In this session, panelists Alex Johnston and Sue Steele review the real data on academic employment outcomes, and the other opportu

Episode #64: Salary and Benefits (LCL Audio)

Jan 21 2025 50 mins

This episode is titled “Salary and Benefits: Negotiate Like a Pro”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of Linguistics. In this presentation, you will learn how to prepare for the negotiation stage and the proper etiquette to request what you need, as well as how to respond to tricky que

Episode #63: Marta Baffy

Dec 31 2024 53 mins

“The pairing of linguistics and law makes a lot of sense” Marta Baffy is a lawyer and linguist who has over a decade of English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching experience both in the United States and abroad. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University and her JD from the Cardozo School of Law. Her research focuses on the discourse processes und

Episode #62: Leveraging LinkedIn (LCL Audio)

Dec 17 2024 48 mins

This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Leveraging LinkedIn: Creating your Profile and Using LinkedIn as a Research Database”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of Linguistics. In this workshop, you’ll l

Episode #61: Carole Chaski

Dec 03 2024 74 mins

“You need to have a heart of service to do this work” Carole Chaski is a forensic linguist who is considered one of the leading experts in the field. Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of computational linguistics and inspired research on the use of this approach for authorship identification. She has provided expert testimony in sev

Episode #60: Informational Interviews (LCL audio)

Nov 19 2024 50 mins

This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Informational Interviews”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of Linguistics. Informational interviewing is the key way to learn about jobs of interest, what jobs mig

Episode #59: Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson

Nov 05 2024 60 mins

“In customer research, if there is any group that’s capacitated to just go out and talk to people, it’s linguists” Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson earned her Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics in a joint program from the University of Arizona in 2019. Her dissertation research was on fandoms – the way communities engage with pop culture. After finishing her d

Episode #58: Effective Resumes (LCL Audio)

Oct 22 2024 92 mins

This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Creating and Tailoring an Effective Resume”. The presenter is Alex Johnston, who is Director, Master’s Programs & Career Management in the Georgetown University Dept. of Linguistics. In this presentation, Alex will answer the following questions: How do