Humanities scholars as "All-rounders“
Some students of the Faculty of Humanities work with the goal of a career in research, while others would like to enter very different occupations. This is possible because a humanities study develops the skills necessary for a various number of occupational fields.
Competences
These skills are crucial for highly skilled positions:
- Extensive technical expertise and knowledge of methodology
- Ability to carry out academic work
- Open and abstract thinking
- Ability to express one's thoughts effectively
- High capacity for learning
- Understanding of complex systems
- Srong communications skills
- Ability to work independently
- Self-motivation
- Persistence
- High frustration tolerance
- Creativity
For humanities scholars who do not wish to work in academia, it is important to acquire skills relevant to a particular industry or field; for example, familiarity with new media if one is interested in a career in the e-publishing division at a publishing house.
As humanties scholars, many paths are open:
- Human resources
- Project work or management functions (foundations, museums, research)
- International organisations
- Journalism
- Publishing work
- Translation
- Marketing
- Knowledge management
- Public relations work
- Education
- Development cooperation
- Policy consulting
- Cultural management
- Languages
- Fields of work for historians
- Social Media
- etc.
For further information about these fields of work, you can follow these links to the Summary of the Career Path Events and Alumni-Interviews.
You can guarantee access to these various possibilities through early internships, thematic focus of studies, and extensive and comprehensive networking.
In case of questions you can always contact us.