Private Sector Career Possibilities
The private sector offers
many opportunities for students with a history or liberal arts background.
Listed are numerous, but by no means exhaustive, examples of the
types of businesses and industries which rely on employees who can
research, document, analyze, synthesize, and communicate effectively.
Marketing and Advertising
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Researching market performance |
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Determining trends for future decisions |
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Analyzing historical marketing techniques, systems and advertising
strategies |
Publishing
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Copyediting and editing |
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Evaluating manuscripts |
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Researching market demands for historical publications and
their uses (educational, personal, etc.) |
Public Relations
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Researching and analyzing public trends |
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Presenting clients’ activities based on historical interpretation |
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Managing company archives |
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Writing historical material for organizational promotional
purposes |
Manufacturing
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Analyzing markets, finances, economics, and political risk
over time |
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Training staff in corporate history and foreign cultures through
diversity and multiculturalism workshops |
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Collecting and documenting oral histories for organizational
diagnosis |
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Managing company archives |
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Writing a history of the business or organization |
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Curating exhibits of archival materials and memorabilia |
Industries in general
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Researching |
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Performing analysis studies |
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Writing public relations and educational materials |
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Writing corporate communications |
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Documenting organizational history |
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Managing archives and information retrieval services |
Mineral Extraction Industries
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Analyzing political risk and key political figures with reference
to economic implications for business |
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Researching claims and geographical and land use history |
Utilities
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Reviewing local issues and concerns |
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Making policy and management studies |
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Providing information services |
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Performing historical analysis |
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Managing archives |
Law
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Researching public and private archives and records collections |
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Collecting oral history for depositions |
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Developing support material from historical evidence |
Banking
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Producing historical financial, economic, and political risk
analyses |
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Managing archives |
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Researching policy issues |
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Writing and teaching staff corporate history |
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Exhibiting historical displays |
Insurance
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Researching and evaluating case histories |
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Preparing studies of policy matters |
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Performing legislative analysis |
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Managing company archives |
Investment Services
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Managing archives and records |
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Performing research and analysis for companies that specialize
in the purchasing, issuing, and selling of corporate equity
(such as brokerage firms and investment banking houses) |
Communications
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Researching and writing historical documentaries and narratives |
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Analyzing public trends over time |
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Providing information and archival services to motion picture
firms, networks, cable television companies, and record and
tape industries |
Journalism
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Searching and researching historical records |
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Interviewing with oral history techniques |
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Writing and editing for newspapers, news, trade, and professional
(scholarly) journals, historical and popular periodicals and
magazines, textbooks, and books |
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