<p>Dear liberal arts majors: what jobs do you want to get after graduating if you are not gonna go to medical school, law school or grad school? </p>
<p>What is the pay?</p>
<p>That is a ridiculously vague - and unanswerable - question.
It depends on major, GPA, work/internship experience, how well you interview, what you apply for, whom you know…</p>
<p>In this job market, internship or work experience is an absolute must so unfortunately that means you have to get cracking the summer before freshman year and at the latest the summer after. You have to be memorable in the interview with a lot of anecdotes on leadership, taking initiative, communication skills, analytical skills, creativity, etc. You must also have 2-3 excellent professional references and you can only get those through such experiences. Get as much quantitative experience as possible without hurting your grades. </p>
<p>A pre-professional mindset is pretty much required these days to get a good job. Employers love liberal arts majors but ONLY when they have real-world experience and practical experiences to go along with those majors. Don’t listen to those people who think focusing on school and a high GPA are all you need to get a top job because that is no longer true and in the end, those people will suffer.</p>
<p>NU’s liberal arts majors qualify for top consultant jobs provided they have a top GPA, have some interesting experiences to talk about in the interview, and train for case interviews (best book for this is Case in Point).</p>
<p>Oh and leadership in extracurriculars on campus counts as meaningful experience if they’re actually substantive.</p>
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<p>Are you talking about career prospects or just your first job out of college? A broad liberal arts background is preparation for career flexibility, advancement and leadership. In mid-career, History majors out-earn lawyers.</p>
<p>Both. A liberal arts background is valuable but you will most likely not get hired by a top employer out of college without real-world experience or at the very least leadership in ECs to go along with it. What I’m saying is you can have a strong pre-preprofessional mindset and a strong liberal arts background at the same time.</p>
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<p>How much does a top consultant pay and what are the names of the employer companies?
If you don’t have a top GPA then what can you do to maximize your earning potential?</p>
<p>^McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group.</p>
<p>Audition for American Idol.</p>
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<p>Huh? Notwithstanding that the categories of “lawyers” and “History majors” overlap quite a bit, it’s hard to imagine this could possibly be true. For one, hardly any employment category out-earns lawyers mid-career, unless it’s a very, very small employment category. (CEOs. Hedge-fund managers.) Of course, “History majors” is not an employment category, and it may be that most of the world’s history majors turn into CEOs, hedge-fund managers, or better-than-average-earning lawyers, such that, net of the academics (trust me, law professors get paid a lot more than history professors), history majors earn more than lawyers. But. Really, it can’t be true. </p>
<p>Where did that spurious factoid come from?</p>
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<p>+1. Though, many lawyers make only around 40k a year, I’d be willing to bet that there are FAR FAR more history majors than lawyers floating around, and just by virtue of that that’s false. We also know a substantial portion of attorneys make $100k + a year.</p>
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<p>This.</p>
<p>Philosophy majors outearn short-order cooks by mid-career.</p>
<p>Wait, that sounds ridiculous too.</p>
<p>I highly doubt I’ll out-earn short order cooks by mid career.</p>