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Video: What is linguistics and what can it do for me?
A video from the session entitled Building Capacity in Linguistics and Endangered Languages at Tribal Colleges and Universities from the 2017 LSA Annual Meeting. Directed towards a Native audience, the video provides background on the history and subfields of linguistics.

LINGUIST List
This website and accompanying email list have just about any kind of information on the field that you could possibly want, including a student portal, up- to-date conference listings, job postings, a means to post questions and make inquiries to members of the field, and other resources.

The North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition
NACLO is a contest in which high-school students solve linguistic problems. In solving these problems, students learn about the diversity and consistency of language, while exercising logic skills. No prior knowledge of linguistics or second languages is necessary. Professionals in linguistics, computational linguistics and language technologies use dozens of languages to create engaging problems that represent cutting edge issues in their fields. The competition has attracted top students to study and work in those same fields. It is truly an opportunity for young people to experience a taste of natural-language processing in the 21st century.

Webinar: How to Be a Successful Grad School Applicant
From the 2015 LSA Summer Institute: The presenters approached the job search as a research process, starting with the task of identifying skills, abilities, and professional goals, followed by practice in telling effective stories about ourselves as professionals and as linguists.