Language Mediation: What are the job opportunities?
After studying language mediation, which allows one to open up a wide and differentiated range of possibilities, there are several job opportunities to choose from after a Master’s degree.
WHY CHOOSE LANGUAGE MEDIATION
Language Mediation is one of the faculties that has been expanding in recent years and is increasingly popular as the choice of students.
Due to ongoing globalization, where not only markets but also cultures intersect and contaminate each other thanks to digital technology, which eliminates all distance, communication is often not as easy as it seems.
It is therefore increasingly necessary to have people who can act as mediators to improve economic, labor and political exchanges, becoming bridges in contexts where cultural differences seem to clash instead of becoming an advantage for all.
WHY CONTINUE STUDYING
Continuing to study after a Bachelor’s degree is therefore important in order to specialize even further and to be able to get a more exhaustive and detailed training in different working contexts.
In fact, according to the latest Almalaurea data as at 2022, 66.9% of Language Mediation graduates enrolled in a Master’s degree course, divided between 35% who chose a career pathway aimed at international cooperation and 22.3% who opted for a career pathway focused on translation and interpreting.
Widening the range of activities, further opportunities can be found in the field of web marketing, also developing knowledge in business development in foreign markets through e-commerce activities. Or in the audio-visual industry, focusing on ssubtitling and dubbing,,
supporting the diffusion of multimedia products from the country of origin throughout the world.
HOW MANY PEOPLE FIND A JOB AFTER A MASTER’S DEGREE
Considering that already those who obtain a Bachelor’s degree one year after graduation – again according to the latest Almalaurea data – more than half of graduates find a job (64.3%), with a Master’s degree in Strategic Communication, the numbers are much more encouraging.
In fact, one year after getting a Master’s degree, more than 75.4% of students are employed. The employment rate is 90.4 % five years after graduation,
roughly double the 46.1 % who are working five years after their Bachelor’s degree.
In addition, there are also 48,5% of people who decide to continue their education further with postgraduate studies or higher education opportunities.
WHICH JOB SECTORS
The most popular job opportunities for language graduates fall into several categories, relating to different market areas.
Those who pursue their career in sales and commercial distribution, work in the field of marketing. The strong linguistic and cultural knowledge of the target markets is then combined with business communication skills and export management, dealing with digital strategies for online promotion.
Interpreters, translators and language correspondents are the professions most closely related to the world of translation and interpreting.
Interpreters are specialized in working as mediators mainly at an oral level between different targets, with different habits and cultural, political and economic contexts. They can handle different situations such as congresses, conferences, meetings and summits of national and international institutions and events of various kinds.
Translators, on the other hand, work strictly on the written aspect of mediation, with a high degree of accuracy and quality and often specializing further. They do this through cultural, advertising and publishing products as well as for medical-scientific and legal-diplomatic topics.
Finally, many also pursue careers in education at different levels. A choice for which it is indeed necessary to be in possession of a master’s degree in order to have access to competitions and calls for applications.
Finally, from a contractual point of view, there are several contractual cases. Which, however, see a balance of 46.6% of workers with an open-ended contract, 29.1% are under a fixed-term contract. 15.9% have instead opted for freelance work.
LINGUISTIC MEDIATION: JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Job opportunities after language mediation are possible in various realities and sectors. This makes this degree and its specialization an excellent starting point for building one’s professional and personal future
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