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Career Paths in Service Provision

Knowledge Transfer, Cultural and Educational Tourism, Trade and Business Development, Publishing, Text Editing, Bookselling, Trade Fairs, Publishing (Especially Textbooks) and Distribution

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  - You work as a translator from the foreign language of your literary studies into e.g. German and vice versa.
  - As a literary agent, you work in your area of specialization. Here, you act as an intermediary between authors and publishers, for example, when it comes to the transfer of publishing rights or the drafting of contracts.
  - You recruit and support authors, artists, and other employees in the creative industry.
  - As an editor, you review manuscripts and evaluate them for publication by a publishing house. You suggest changes if necessary and handle all steps of the publication.
  - You give presentations at literary reviews and discussions.
  - You are a speechwriter and write speeches for politicians, companies, or private individuals, for example. You also support speakers with developing their rhetoric.
  - You develop, organize, and accompany tourist trips for the purpose of language acquisition (language trips).
  - You design and organize trips that focus on a specific theme (theme-based tourism, educational trips). To this end, you analyze and develop the natural, infrastructural, and cultural potential of specific regions or countries.
  - You organize and moderate events, workshops, and other formats to support exchange and knowledge transfer between projects and institutions.
  - As part of project or continuing education networks, you collect key information and insights, evaluate them, and pass them on in a processed form.
  - In a coordinating role, you then provide a platform for making developed solutions available to interested parties in both the public and private sectors.

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  - Publishing houses
  - Agencies
  - Research organizations
  - Tourism boards, tourist offices, and tourist facilities
  - Tourism marketing companies
  - Hotels and event locations
  - Cruise and bus companies
  - Airports and airlines
  - Tour operators
  - Software and database companies
  - Associations for artists and authors, talent agencies
  - Localization departments of internet-based platforms
  - Language learning app developers
  - Language schools
  - Publishing agencies
  - Editing services

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  - Stellenangebote WiLa-Arbeitmarkt
  - BuchMarktJobs
  - Deutscher Museumsbund
  - Jobbörse - Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
  - KULTweet - Der Stellenmarkt für Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftler/innen
  - The Linguist List
  - Medienjobs
  - Bundesverband der Deutschen Tourismuswirtschaft e.V.
  - Verband Deutsches Reisemanagement e.V.
  - Deutscher Tourismusverband – Stellenbörse
  - Touristik Career
  - FVW Touristik Jobs
  - Destinet