This career path is focused on designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content including visual and performing arts and design, journalism, marketing communication and entertainment services.
While many majors and minors can prepare you for this career path, we find that students studying certain subjects have a natural connection. Common majors and minors related to career in this area include:
English, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Marketing, History, Psychology, Sociology, Digital Media, Philosophy
Use the Job Trends tool below to explore the tasks and skills connected to specific types of jobs related to this career path.
Jody Jones credits her passion for retail as the key to her current career at Lowe’s. Growing up, her parents owned small businesses, and Jones was eager to contribute to the family enterprise. As soon as she was legally able—around …
Communication is key! Whether you’re a seasoned executive or a recent graduate, being able to share ideas clearly, listen actively, and build relationships is crucial in almost any job. That’s why recruiters often prioritize interview questions for communication skills during …
If you’re pursuing a liberal arts degree, career and job search anxiety are completely normal. Unlike majors like accounting or software engineering, many liberal arts degree majors don’t immediately translate to specific career paths; however, this doesn’t mean that liberal …
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If you have an undergraduate degree in communications, there are many jobs available to you—no matter if you're a recent grad or experienced professional looking to switch careers. Here are the top eight jobs for people with communications degrees.
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Occupation Description
Employment Trends
The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.
Top Employers
These companies are currently hiring for .
Education Levels
The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.
Annual Earnings
Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.
Technical Skills
A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.
Core Competencies
The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.
Job Titles
A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.
