Modern Foreign Languages

Throughout your degree you’ll be considering your options on graduation. One option may be to use your languages and if so in what context and whether in the UK or overseas; another to find out about all the other routes open to you. The bottom line is that you will be a King’s graduate with options. The destinations information below gives you some idea of previous graduates’ choices.

Drop and see us to for a quick query of 15 minutes to work out what your starting point is and how we can help.

For many people our practical help around improving a cv, practising interview skills and considering further study is a must.

Make the most of our events programme to check out some of the options you are considering and find out about some alternatives. A full programme is offered including a Forum on Translation and Interpreting.

JobOnline International JobOnline – use both these King’s job listing sites together to find out about what’s happening who is recruiting. A few recent examples give a flavour: writing for a PR company in Tokyo as a graduate, working for the AA in administration in France over the summer, editorial positions using languages or joining a graduate scheme in the UK. International Job Online helps you to look at more overseas options than Job Online alone.

Some selected examples of what language students go on to do after their course at King's, taken from an annual survey conducted approximately six months after graduation...

Undergraduates

• Trainee Analyst.
• Researcher, Department of Constitutional Affairs.
• Crown Court Administrator.
• PG Diploma in Public Relations.
• Assistant Retail Buyer.
• Research Assistant, Equity Department of Investment Bank.
• Visual Merchandiser.
• Museum Visitor Assistant.
• Editorial Graduate Trainee.
• Political Strategist.
• Graduate Diploma in Law.
• Policy Information Assistant.
• English Language Assistant abroad.
• Postgraduate qualification in Specialised Translation.
• Tax Consultant.
• Bilingual Secretary to Embassy Ambassador.
• Insurance Adviser.
• Assistant Press Officer.
• PG Dip in Newspaper Journalism.
• Recruitment Consultant.

Postgraduates

• Paralegal.
• Financial Analyst.
• Reporter/Presenter for Television Programme.
• Cataloguer – Royal Collection Database.
• PhD Early Medieval History.
• Minister of Religion – Methodist Church.
• Assistant Registrar within a University.
• Lecturer.
• PhD Modern Literature.
• PGCE Secondary.

Modern Languages graduates enter a wide range of professional areas, and many choose employment in which their language skills are directly used in their working lives. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects annually national first destination information on higher degree graduates. For more details and results from the survey, see 'What do graduates do?' on the Prospects website.