PROFESSIONS FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINE

PROFESSIONS FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINE

 

      Humanities is a broad study of history, philosophy, religion, culture and tradition and to understand how it can be related to human endeavor by studying it’s past and how it can be related to our present times that will shape lives of the future generation. Studying humanities also includes anything that is reflective to human conditions. Humanities is also regarded as Social Science that includes the study of the society and human organization including Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, Law, International Law and other studies that deals with the social realm.

      In the University of Nottingham in UK they have succeeded in delivering wide options from their respective newly graduates of Humanities and Social Science Students from various fields of endeavor. They have employed various people through companies and government since they are confident that they have delivered the best skills to their graduates to be deployed from various positions. The job destinations for Humanities graduate and Social Science graduate somehow proves that there is no typical career path in their graduates; this can be an advantage to their part but they must possess general qualifications including good communication skills, flexibility and adaptability at work that is highly required by most companies.

      There are various professions and opportunities that a Humanities graduate can choose from. If they have already mastered their ability with a variety of styles and if they have learned to think logically, opportunities may come their way. As a General Qualification they should be a graduate of Humanities, Social Science, Business, Marketing or other related field. Some companies highly take advantage of their job experiences, age advantage, personality and school referrals. There are also variation for men and women that maybe ideal for the company, by the year 2007 and ahead they have identified the following job opportunities for their newly graduate students.

AVAILABLE JOBS FOR MEN:

      Media Researcher – Is a field work for men and their role is to handle field work assigned activities from various locations depending on the current reports that take place. It can also be a political, showbiz, industrial and market research studies. 

      Archaeologist – Is another field work that requires extensive studies of history to gather facts, fossils, and artifacts of human and animal findings from various locations. They can also be assigned to make a research and retrieval of various documents.   

     Sales Representatives – Open for new graduates with good communication skills, power of self expression, enthusiastic and confident to handle the toughest costumers, willing to travel. Training is provided, including basic salary and allowance.  

     Learning Support Assistant – Possible workers will act as a trainee and support assistance for teachers, they should show special attention to children from primary to secondary and they are also expected to perform disciplinary activities in arts, music, theater, poetry and other field of humanities and social science.  

      Youth Workers – Is a government work who will teach interdisciplinary activities for children from out of school youth. They must be able to demonstrate a genuine interest to people especially children from grassroots communities to be able to teach team good values and discipline. They must persuade them to love education.    

AVAILABLE JOBS FOR WOMEN;

      Educational Assistant – Newly graduates are welcome if they can teach and act like a teacher, they must also show an inherent talent and ability to handle young children from early learnings. Must know how story-telling and other children’s activity.

      Marketing Assistant – Available for women, management, marketing, social science and other related field, must know how to use various computer programs especially Microsoft office. Can perform multi tasking in a fast pace environment.

      Investment Banker/Teller – will handle various day to day operations dealing with customers from various branches, computer literate, trainable and must possess good customer service skills, reliable and trustworthy.

      Advertising Executives – Will deal with various agencies to promote products and services of the company. Willing to do field work and be assigned from various locations. Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills are required. 

      Public Relation Assistant – Will work closely to the PR department for various company promotions, press release, public seminars and exhibit to promote the agency image and role modeling. 

      Nottingham University has a strong partnership networks from various companies and graduates are usually deployed from the following companies upon hiring these are BBC, UK Civil Service, Ministry of Defense, British Airways, Arcadia Group of Companies, Google, Marks and Spencer, Microsoft, Ernst and Young, Bank of England, JP Morgan, HSBC and many others of their networked companies.

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