Job profiles for social scientists
"And what do you do with it?" ...
... is a question often asked by students of the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies. This is because there are usually no specific job profiles for social science graduates. However, there are numerous fields of activity open to you as a social scientist. It is important that you start thinking about your future desired profession during your studies, as a corresponding specialization - e.g. in Business Studies and Economics in the Master's in Integrative Social Sciences - and a relevant internship can make it easier to get started.
Selection of possible career fields with a Bachelor's or Master's degree program in Integrative Social Science
- Education
- Event, social and IT management
- Market and opinion research (e.g. bvm.org/berufsbild-arbeitsfelder)
- Media (e.g. www. karista.de/berufe/social-media-manager)
- Public administration/authorities(http://www.gesundheitsberufe.de/berufsbilder/beamter-im-hoeheren-sozialversicherungsdienst-mw)
- Human resources/recruiting (e.g. berufebilder.de/2015/berufsbild-personalwesen-karriere-recruiting)
- Politics/political consulting/associations/foundations (e.g. careers.un.org/lbw/Home.aspx)
- Management consulting (e.g. www.ulmato.de/ausbildung/unternehmensberater)
- Science/science management and communication/science officer (e.g. www. academics.de/wissenschaft/berufsbilder_im_fokus_wissenschaftlicher_referent_56230.html)
Selection of possible career fields with a Master's in Cognitive Science
- Medical-clinical area: cognitive gerontology, neuroradiology, medical technology, imaging, neurorehabilitation
- Social field: consulting in the field of computer-aided group formation, research into socially distributed cognition, research into environmental influences on child development, support for intercultural communication, design and research into social media)
- Business/industry: cognitive ergonomics, development of disability-friendly designs, information technology, text editing, knowledge organization and modeling in modern information provision, cognitive-oriented communication technology, communication and interaction consulting, specification, design and evaluation of human-machine interfaces, design and research of social media, research/development/usability
- Other fields of activity: scientific text production, biomedical technology (technology for pattern recognition in EEG/EKG data, human-machine interaction in medicine), development of curricula for computer-aided learning, development of AI systems, knowledge engineering, knowledge harvesting from the WWW (distributed software), cognition-relevant technology impact assessments (review activities, etc.), editing in the cognition-relevant field of communication technology (e.g. in the field of cognitive science).), editing in the field of cognitive science, perfecting computer-controlled experiments, publishing knowledge on the Internet (online services, etc.), system analysis, management consulting with regard to the interplay of communication-cognition-motivation