Jobs for anthropologists

Transferrable skills

• Those skills developed in the classroom and in assignments that can be usefully applied in other domains

What do they include

• There are basic elements of social science training that everyone should have after a degree

• Are relevant to what non-anthropologists SHOULD think we are doing

For example…

• Gathering information (sometimes a lot of it)• Assessing the quality of information• Being able to summarize and explain that

information• Communicating findings verbally

or in writing

Social science transferrable skills?

• Observation, reflection, questioning and making inferences

• Recognizing social and cultural impacts on thought and action

• What hasn’t been explored or what questions haven’t been asked

Which means…

• … social scientists know that empirical research with broad assessment of context yields results that can offer explanatory models for why people think and act the way they do

• Medical anthropology/bioanthropology can also contribute understandings based on body/biology

Continued…

• … with good information and analysis, we can suggest beneficial changes

• Ethical practice means consideration of other’s rights