A BS English degree does not focuses on only a single type of job instead it focuses on skills that are required by many sorts of jobs. One good example is the Business Communication Skills that help you to communicate with your fellow employees with much more effectiveness and be able to draw much more positive conclusions than without it.
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Many people have a stereotypical mindset that if you are an English major student then the job that you'll have in your future will be either teaching, professorship, or even a lectureship. Here I've done long thorough research to find as many jobs as I could to show and prove to you that there are numerous numbers of job opportunities waiting for you to grab them. All of them are highly respectable and have huge salaries. You don't need any technical degrees to be able to have them. A simple BS English degree would be more than enough to pass their eligibility criteria. These Jobs are:
1) Social Media Manager:
How much does a Social Media Manager make?
An average Social Media Manager salary in Pakistan would be up to Rs 40,000/month whereas they make an average of 75$ per month. A Social media manager with a better experience and an ability to sell themselves to their clients can earn more than 120$ per month.
2) Copywriter:
A copywriter’s job is to persuade, engage and influence the target audience. They, with their compelling words, will make their target audience take any course of action. Convincing headlines that make you click them is one of the examples of copywriting. It is basically a game of words which is highly important in Digital marketing. This job is gaining more and more popularity over the last few years and according to a survey it stands in the 40th rank for the wealthiest jobs in the world. Copywriting can not only be seen on ads but also on emails, web page content, press releases, and billboards that convince you and me to buy anything that they sell or to take any other sort of action.
How much does a Copywriter make?
In the U.S a Copywriter salary makes an average of $62,000 per year, where he could get as low as $30,000 per year to a maximum of $130,000 per year. In Pakistan, an average Copywriter salary makes up to Rs50,000 per month where he could get a minimum of Rs30,000 to a maximum of Rs130,000 per month or sometimes even more. The higher your experience and performance, the better the salary.
3) Human Resource Manager:
Understanding Human Resource Management is the key to success in almost any job that you do. Every business has human beings or people working in them and their problems and issues become people's issues and their problems. People with the right mindset, skills, and motivation draw businesses to success. A Human Resource Manager's job is to manage those people by analyzing a business's competitive environment and design jobs by selecting the right people for the right jobs and responsibilities. A Human Resource Manager amplifies the skills and strengths necessary for the business's success.
How much do Human Resource Managers make?
In the U.S the average Human Resource Manager salary is $130,000 per year ($60 per hour). In Pakistan, the average salary of a Human Resource Manager falls between Rs60,000 to Rs90,000 per month depending upon your level of experience and how good you are at your job.
4) Medical Writer:
Medical writing is a type of technical writing. The job of a medical writer is to do clinical research and develop a clinical document that is currently on trial. Those documents have could have several sorts of information regarding a disease or a drug i.e. its results or anything related to its chronic use etc. The small scripts that come out of the medicine boxes are all the result of medical writer skills. Those scripts contain all the information regarding the medicine's formula, how often should you use and what precautions should you take before taking those medicines. A good medical writer is well aware of all the medical terminologies if not then most of them.
How much do Medical Writers make?
In the U.S an average Medical Writer makes up to $5000 per month. In Pakistan, a Medical Writer could make up to Rs150000 per month.
5) Brand Strategist:
A simple document that defines everything that is to know about your brand i.e. who are your customers, what makes your product so special, why should your customer even care about you and your product, it's all researched and then documented by brand specialists. The Brand Specialist comes up with the answers to all these questions and concludes them on a paper in the most professional way possible. Even the Brand Strategist job description requires him to be the best in his communication skill. The words and the answers that the brand strategists come up with become very important in selling that brand in the market. Their main job is to be able to find a way for the customers to finally reach them. Through the documentations, his goal is to create clarity of that brand and ''position'' it in a way that would be selling and compelling. So a lot is to be done by a strategist about the brand or the company with which he is working. Analyzing your brand as well as your opponent's to know what your brand lacks and what sort of improvement it requires is all part of the brand strategist's work. He collects all that data from interviews, surveys, and researches he does on his as well as on the competitor's brand.
How much do Brand Strategists make?
In the U.S the average Brand Strategist salary is about $65,000 per year. It could range from $55,000 to $80,000 per year depending upon your experience as well as your performance in the field. In Pakistan, the salary may range from Rs 55,000 to Rs 200,000 per month.
6) Lobbyist:
A Lobbyist or an activist persuades politicians or the members of the constitution-making assemblies through his documentation about what legislation should they do and what should they don't. This job is highly effective in a democratic political system where the general public doesn't quite understand the political system and how things work in it. These Lobbyists are paid by different corporates on behalf of which they lobby. These lobbyists present ideas to lawmakers and are an integral part of society. Trying to convince lawmakers to adopt your point of view and making them resolve a problem damaging to you and your corporate organization. Lobbyist jobs are quite rare and they are not that much marketed but they do exist and offer a valuable service that makes people's lives easier and also get you into the game.
How much do Lobbyists make?
In the U.S an average Lobbyist salary may fall between $50,000 to $500,000 per year. The range depends upon the level of experience as well as expertise in what they do and how good they are. In Pakistan a Lobbyist could earn about Rs 90,000 per month or more depending upon the relationship he has with the influencers or the people with power i.e. members of the Parliament assembly.
7) Speech Writer:
A speech writer’s job require him to write speeches for others to deliver. He could work for a senior-level elected official or executives in the public as well as private sectors. Not just that they could also write speeches that are to be delivered at a wedding or any other social occasion. Not only writes them but also edits them, and adds humor to them so that they could have the capability to attract people's attention. He could also spend time with the person for whom he writes those speeches and could also travel abroad with him.
How much do Speech Writers get paid?
In the U.S a Speech Writer salary would falls between $93,000 to $220,000 per year. In Pakistan, a Speech Writer could get from Rs60,000 to more than Rs200000 depending upon your skills and what sort of organization you are working in.
8) Teacher/Professor:
A school teacher teaches his students. He gives them the skills to survive the society and helps them learn different subjects such as Math, English, Science, etc. If any problem or a question comes up in a student's mind, the teacher makes sure that those students get the answer to those questions according to the knowledge they have and then tries to solve their problems. The way they interact with their students depends upon the grade or the class in which those students are. They may play with the young ones but with the higher level students, their approach may be more serious and strict, so the teacher-student relationship differs from class to class. The music teacher will teach his students how to sing. The math teacher will help his students with complex mathematical exercises. So every teacher has his/her own role and domain in which they try to help their students to excel. Unlike teachers, a College Professors are experts on specific subjects. They have done a lot of study on that particular subject and have done a lot of research on it as well. Their job is to get all that study and those research somehow to the students in the best way possible i.e. practical or theoretical. They not only have this capability to solve your problems related to a specific subject but can also make you an expert on that subject as well.
How much do Professors make?
In the U.S an average Professor salary is about $75,000 per year, which falls between $38,000 per year to $90,000 per year. In Pakistan, a median salary of a Professor is Rs2,500,000 per year which lies between Rs1,660,000 per year to Rs3,000,000 per year depending upon the experience and the mastery that he has in the profession.
How much Teachers get paid?
In U.S an average teacher's salary is $62,000 per year which falls between $50,000 (lowest) to $90,000 (highest). In Pakistan, the average salary of a teacher is Rs30,000 per month, which falls between Rs16,000 per month to Rs70,000 per month.
9) Journalist:
The job of a journalist whether he is working for print or electronic media is to gather as much information relevant to something that has either happened or is currently happening. They gather answers to the questions such as, who was it, what did they do, where were they, when did this happen, why did this happen, and many others questions like these. The information that they gather reaches the audience in different ways such as investigative reports, feature stories, reviews, blogs, breaking news, etc. Most of the time a journalist is just basically interviewing, studying, examining documents, assessing, and researching something specific.
How much can you make as a journalist?
In the U.S a Journalist salary could be around $4,200 per month. In Pakistan, an average salary of a journalist is Rs50,000 per month.
10) Editor
The job of an editor is to help the author to publish a book that could be a fictional or a non-fictional one. His job is to maintain that level of excitement intact throughout the entire book. He makes sure that the readers may not get bored whilst reading it. He indicates the places where he thinks that changes have to be made. Those places may have points that may be considered extras or that may not make sense with the rest of the content. They may also indicate syntactic as well as other sorts of grammar mistakes that the writer has unintentionally committed. He may also brief the designers on the cover of that book.
How much does an Editor make?
Depending upon his level of expertise the salary of an Editor in the U.S could fall between $70,000 to $120,000 per year. In Pakistan, the pay of an editor may range from Rs 50,000 per month to Rs 120,000 per month.
11) Public Relation Manager
As the name indicates a Public Relations Manager duties are to manage the best kind of relationship with the public. A Public Relation manager may be hired by a politician, a celebrity, or any sort of company that wants to sell its brand. They all want their PR manager to create a positive image of them in front of the general public. You can't sell your brand if it doesn't have that good image. Also, people won't follow politicians or celebrities unless they somehow make their images "Follow-worthy". The PR manager gathers the opinions of the general public about the person or the company for which he is working. On encountering the negative opinions he'll try his best to interpret them in a way that all those negatives become positives. He also writes press releases and tries to get more and more people's support for that particular person. He could also write speeches for that person and control that person's social media accounts. He tries to keep those social media accounts active and tries to reach as many people as possible to gather as many sympathies for that person as possible. The communication that he does with the public could also be called strategic communication. It's a two-way communication where the PR Manager plans and then executes that plan on the target audience. His job could be internal, where he'd work in an organization and try to build positive relationships within that organization i.e. its employees, or external, where he would try to make good relations with the people outside the company or organization. Internships in a PR role experience writing for a college newspaper or holding a leadership position in student activities can be helpful in getting a PR job. A Public relations Manager skills requires him to be the best when it comes to communication whether it be written or in a verbal form.
How much does a Public Relations Manager make?
An average Public Relations Manager salary in Pakistan is Rs 50,000 per month. In the U.S the average annual salary ranges from $101,000 to $140,000 depending upon his level of expertise.
12) Regional Sales Manager
A Regional Sales Manager's job is to make a plan to achieve his sales goal and then try to execute them. He hires sales representatives, trains them, sets targets for them, and monitors and values the performances of those representatives. Also, he monitors the competitor's products, their sales, and performances and keeps the higher-ups informed so that they could improve their own products as well. A regional sales manager duties and responsibilities also includes informing the higher-ups about the sales techniques and product advertisements. He also tries to create a good and healthy relationship with the customer so that those customers would prefer their products instead of anyone else's. Writing the plans and procedures in order to generate sales is all that a Regional Sales Manager does and what's expected of him and for that, he makes reports and presentations and presents them to his higher-ups.
How much does a Regional Sales Manager make?
In the U.S the annual median Regional Sales Manager salary is $123,057, where it falls between $100,000 to $150,000 per year. In Pakistan, a Regional Sales Manager could have an annual salary ranging from Rs85,000 (minimum) to Rs4,000,000 (maximum) depending upon how much experience the person has and how good he is in his job.
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