Where a linguistics lecturer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a linguistics lecturer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Linguistics lecturers are subject professors, teachers, or lecturers who instruct students who have obtained an upper secondary education diploma in their own specialised field of study, linguistics, which is predominantly academic in nature. They work with their university research assistants and university teaching assistants for the preparation of lectures and of exams, for grading papers and exams and for leading review and feedback sessions for the students. They also conduct academic research in their respective field of linguistics, publish their findings and liaise with other university colleagues.
Also known as linguistics docent, lecturer in applied linguistics, linguistics teacher, linguistics lector, higher education linguistics teacher, university linguistics teacher, professor of linguistics, lecturer in linguistics, university linguistics lecturer, lecturer of linguistics, applied linguistics lecturer, professor of applied linguistics.
Professionals 91 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: architecture lecturer, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A linguistics lecturer needs 32 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- teach linguistics communication, collaboration and creativity
- forensic linguistics arts and humanities
- academic English languages
- phonetics arts and humanities
- semantics arts and humanities
- linguistics arts and humanities
- spelling arts and humanities
- grammar arts and humanities
- compile course material communication, collaboration and creativity
- liaise with educational staff communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a linguistics lecturer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- archaeology lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 33.2
- art studies lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 33.2
- history lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 33.2
- philosophy lecturer 80% covered · difficulty 33.2
- architecture lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 34.1
- biology lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 34.1
- communications lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 34.1
- dentistry lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 34.1
- economics lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 34.1
- education studies lecturer 79% covered · difficulty 34.1
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Linguistics lecturer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a linguistics lecturer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.