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Working as an English-Language Lawyer Linguist in Luxembourg
Written by Nell Fane Monday, 23 January 2012Have you ever thought of working as an English-language lawyer linguist? Perhaps not (because it sounds pretty complicated!), but we thought we should fill you in on all it entails, as it seems like the perfect job for one of our multi-linguists…
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New York, it’s been a pleasure!
Thursday, 01 December 2011As I approach the last stage of my internship with the UN and my final few weeks in New York City, I have been trying to establish some good contacts and gain valuable career advice for the future. While the work I have been doing for the Peacekeeping department of the UN has certainly been interesting, the most useful lessons I have learned have definitely come from having an insight into the UN as a whole, the inspirational people I have met and the exciting experience of living in the wonderful city that is New York.
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My first week as a UN intern
Tuesday, 04 October 2011So, my “holiday” in New York had to end sometime! On Monday I started work at the Policy and Best Practices Section of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN. Getting the subway and walking to work that bright, sunny day, passing the Empire State Building and 5th Avenue, was a feeling I’ll never, ever forget.Tags -
Eve Elwell is working as an intern for the European Commission, in their Interpreting department. Here, she gives an account of what it takes to make it into interpreting as a career choice, with information about the job, what to study and more...
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Recent statistics have shown that languages have proven to be less popular in schools, with French taking a real knock at GCSE level. This in turn means that less sixth-formers will study languages at A-Level, which could have - and already has had, in some circles - some disastrous consequences for language departments at university level.Published in Careers with Languages
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Realising that I would be at a loose end and probably horrendously depressed about being home in the summer after my year abroad, I decided to do something constructive with my time. Being the unimaginative type, I decided to do an internship in the only career path that people who don’t study languages think that linguists are destined for – translation.
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Life in New York City
Wednesday, 26 October 2011Time is flying by so quickly in New York and I have now been here for over 5 weeks and I’m almost halfway-through my internship with the UN. My department are giving me lots of interesting work to do and after expressing an interest in translation projects, I’m getting to use my language skills a lot which is great.
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Greetings from the Big Apple!
Tuesday, 27 September 2011This is my first blog post as Third Year Abroad's Mole at the UN in New York, how exciting! Let me start by explaining how I got here... I graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh back in June this year and was awarded a prize called the Fiona Watson Memorial Award. This award is basically a scholarship which sends a student to do an internship with the UN in New York for 3 months in memory of Fiona Watson who was a Heriot-Watt student who worked at the UN until she was tragically killed in 2003. Like many of you reading this blog, I studied languages at uni and spent a wonderful year abroad in Tours, France and Granada, Spain. -
So you’ve graduated, you’ve moved out of your flat share and back in with the parents oh horror of horrors, or maybe you’ve decided to stay in your university town. Either way, the new dilemma facing you will undoubtedly be: what on earth am I going to do next?Published in Careers with Languages -
When I chose to study French and Italian the only thing I was certain about was that I wanted to use the languages I had acquired in my future job. So when my graduation gown had been flung back onto the pile, I naturally did what any self-respecting linguist would do (especially after a year in Manchester), and went in search of the sun!Published in Careers with LanguagesTags
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