COMMUNICATION

Resources for Careers in Communication

Job opportunities are widespread, since students of communication develop basic skills which prepare them to speak, write, listen, plan, interview, negotiate, persuade, coordinate, generate ideas, and in different ways communicate with other individuals in a variety of vocational settings and environments.

Coupled with an appropriate minor or supporting area of study, jobs which communication graduates may be prepared for include such employment areas as:
 

• BROADCASTING & PERFORMING ARTS:

Radio/TV writing and announcing

Broadcast programming direction and production

Station floor, set, support, & technical services

Advertising sales & account management

Programming research & assignment information retrieval services

Theatre acting, directing, & stage production services

Motion picture acting, directing, & film production services

• PUBLISHING:

Book, magazine, newspaper, newsletter, & online information writing/editing

Publications information research & interviewing

Opinion/editorial & special assignment writing

Advertising sales & account management

Publication printing, graphics, technical , & circulation services

Technical Writer

• GENERAL BUSINESS/GOV'T/COMMERCE:

Customer Service Functions

Corporate/industrial operations/procedures trainer

Prof. clerical/secretarial office & records services

Sales:  Retail, industrial, professional, real estate, insurance

Advertising/public relations campaign writing/design/production services

Government/civil service public information officer

Labor relations functions

Personnel interviewing & job information services

• MISCELLANEOUS:

             Hospital patient/public liaison functions

             Community organization spokesperson & communication officer

             Organizational Training

             Fund raising campaign planning & coordination functions

Environmental/recreational information research & dissemination

             Organizational event planning and implementation activities

• Links for Communication Majors

http://www.prsa.org/  Public Relations Society of America

http://www.stc.org/  Society for Technical Communication

http://www.astd.org/  American Society for Training and Development

http://www.kennesaw.edu/communication/  Kennesaw State University Communication Department

http://www.womcom.org/Memberships/profoptions.html  The Association for Women in Communications