Careers in Arts & Humanities

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Contrary to the belief, humanities offers a vast range of career options for students. Students who have completed their graduation in arts can opt for a variety of careers in humanities ranging from Assistant Administrative Officer, to Content Editors to Librarian. Careers in Arts are no longer the lesser cousins of careers after studying science or commerce. Careers in Social science are as lucrative and prestigious career options as their engineering and medical counterparts.

We have complied a list of career options in the Humanities and Social sciences streams.

Assistant Administrative Officer as a Career :

Life Insurance Corporation of India conducts a competitive examination for recruiting personals for the post of Assistant Administrative Officers. AAOs can select any of the areas from Administration, Development and Accounts. While the AAOs (Administration) manage policy making, policy claims up to certain limit, inspecting clauses and details, filing official returns and statements to higher regional offices etc. The Development AAOs is concerned with marketing and procurement of business, meeting prospective clients, endorsing the policies and receiving contracts. The Accounts AAOs manage the funds including incomes and expenses of the corporation. Click here to read more.

Career in Agricultural Journalism :

Students in agricultural journalism take a core of courses including writing, editing, and senior seminar. They will take courses in Agricultural Journalism principles and professional skills. The skills courses students take include publications production, public relations, and Internet communications. Graduates are prepared to work in news/magazine, broadcast, public relations, advertising, or multimedia. Some will work in fields of digital cable and satellite communications.  Click here to read more

Content Writers/Editors :

Content Writer/Editing requires skills that differentiate a good piece of written article from trash.

Development Programme Officer :

This field offers an exciting career prospects for those who want to engage themselves in community development programmes and are dedicated towards working for the society at the grass-roots level. For all those who are deeply concerned about the nation’s overall development, a career as Development Programme Officer offers exciting career prospects. Click here to read more.

Career in Club Disc Jockey :

The making of a Club Disc Jockey requires the knowledge of the mood of the intended audience, the performance setting. A club disc jockey (or a DJ as is commonly called) is an individual who selects and plays pre-recorded music for an intended audience usually in a club setting, a neighborhood party or even a discotheque. Click here to read more

Career Options in Sociology :

Sociology seeks to understand and account for the complexities of human interaction and patterns of social life. Research institutes, the criminal justice system, public health and welfare organizations, private business, government, and international agencies employ sociologists. Students with a bachelor’s degree often secure employment as research assistants, data analysts, case workers, paralegals, advertising managers and administrators. Researchers in a variety of nonacademic settings – federal, state, or local public agencies,business or industrial firms as well as private institutes are increasingly in demand. Click here to read more.

Career Options in Geography :

Students often ask “What can I do with geography?” Geography offers several career options with numerous specializations like Cartography, Urban and Regional planning and Remote Sensing. Depending on their area of specialization, geographers may be employed as forest managers or in agricultural or economic institutes or as demographers in government and research organizations. A geography background is also an asset for careers in travel and tourism, particularly for travel Journalism. Click here to read more

Career in NGO:

NGO performs a variety of roles in our society and there is hardly any area which is left untouched by the NGOs, be it natural resources, finance, human settlements, social development, culture, education and energy. Click here to read more

Careers in Liberal arts :

Liberal arts offer a well-rounded exposure to lifelong skills that will enable you to adapt to new challenges and juggle diverse responsibilities effectively. Click here to read more

Career in Lectureship :

Considered as one of the noblest professions, it involves lot of research and hard work for teaching the students. One has to have a Master’s degree in the concerned subject or should clear National Eligibility Test (NET) to qualify as a lecturer. However, Ph D is desirable. Click here to read more.

Career Options in Anthropology :

Anthropology is a science, which studies the origin and the physical, social, and cultural development and behaviour of mankind. There are three main areas of employment for an Anthropologist, i.e., teaching, research and working in museums. Research jobs are available in organizations like Archaeological Survey of India, the Planning Commission as well as international organizations like the United Nation’s UNESCO or UNICEF also require their services. Click here to read more

Career Options in Archaeology :

For those who are interested in knowing about the past.Archaeologist carry out various tasks like initial fieldwork, excavation of sites and their categorization besides dating and interpretation of excavated materials. Archaeologists manly try to find out the famous four Ws (What, When, Why, Where and How) with respect to the formation of past cultures and civilizations. Click here to read more

Law as a Career :

Law as a profession is in great demand these days. Due to the changing social and economic circumstances and the ever-increasing regulatory role being undertaken by the government there is a rising demand for the lawyers.
Study of rules and regulations of the Indian Government. Click here to read more.

Library Science as a Career :

Today, librarianship has emerged as a separate discipline and is among the popular choices of many students. A modern –day library today comprises of, periodicals, micro-films, videos, cassettes slides and most importantly thousands books.Library science is the profession which takes care of organizing, maintenance and storage of books in a library. Librarians are the guardian of library and they assist people in finding information. Click here to read more

Career Options in Psychology :

Aspirants who have successfully competed their training in psychology can make their mark in the lucrative branches of psychology like Clinical Psychology, Counseling, educational psychology or sports psychologist. Click here to read more.

Psephology as a Career:

Psephologist or the professionals engaged in studying the election patterns and deviations. They make use of tools like past election’s facts and figures and public opinion polls to arrive at a conclusion. Their scope of job mainly encompasses analysis of aspects like trends in voting, swings in votes; number of votes polled or percentage of total votes polled translating into the number of seats in the government. Click here to read more

Research Assistant :

Candidates with post-graduation degree in Political Science or Public Administration can work as Research Assistants. The selected candidates are appointed as Research Assistant in Library Reference, Research, Documentation and Instrumentation Service (LARRDIS).  Click here to read more.

Teaching as a Career Choice:

Teaching has always held a place of pride in Indian social milieu and ethos. Mankind has always regarded teachers as a boon to the society because it’s only a teacher who by making use of his/ her intelligence, patience and wisdom attempts to not only polish the learner’s intellect and aptitude but also takes steps to shape up a  multi-faceted  personality. Click here to read more

Career in Fine Arts :

Fine art professionals have a plethora of options to choose from. Various opportunities exist for them in various art studios, advertising companies, publishing houses, fashion houses etc. Many professionals prefer to be freelance workers as freelancing gives them a freedom to try their hands on a variety of projects. One can also opt for fields like teaching, direction, photography, television, clothing and fashion besides working as art directors for magazines, on-line services, software companies, publishing houses,advertising, promotion and product design. Click here to read more.

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