Your Foreign Language Degree
 
 
1. Research your options. Use books about finding a career, use this website, use Career Services. Think about exactly what skills you want to use and how you want to use them. 2. Revise your resumé Get help from Career Services your friends, your family, and anyone else who’ll take a look at it. Emphasize the skill that you’ll use at the job you want. Do you know how to correct grammatical errors? Edit text? Use different style guidelines? Translate? Put it all on your resumé. 3. Network Almost nobody likes to do it, but it’s the best way to find the job you want. After you’ve done your research, - conduct informational interviews with people in the field that interests you - spread the word that you’re looking for a job - use the alumni network 4. Go to job fairs This is a great way to practice both your interview and job-seeking skills! Career Services organizes several on-campus job fairs, but you can also look for other job fairs in the city or the region -- fairs that are specific to your career goals. 5. Get an Internship Use Career Services to help find an internship or research companies that interest you and investigate internship possibilities they offer. Remember, if you do your research and choose specific companies, divisions, and even particular people to whom you want to send your resumé, your chances of finding a job will be better. Don’t rely on classified ads!http://www.umsl.edu/depts/career/http://www.umsl.edu/depts/career/students/activities.html#JobFairsshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded.
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
    “De l’Esprit”
 
Les affaires, c’est bien simple, c’est l’argent des autres.
- Alexandre Dumas
La Question d’Argent
 
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked . . . it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence
 
...the four conditions for happiness:
(1) Life in the open air.
(2) The love of another being
(3) Freedom from all ambition.
(4) Creation.
- Albert Camus
Notebooks, 1935-42, III
 
How can I actually get a job -- any job?