{"id":417,"date":"2015-06-04T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2023-12-28T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T16:42:02","slug":"using-language-to-land-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/using-language-to-land-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Language To Land The Job"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the economy continues to slowly improve and unemployment levels drop, more and more jobseekers are finding the task of getting hired less daunting.\u00a0Unemployment rates in the United States decreased to 5.40 percent in April of 2015 from 5.50 percent a month earlier<\/a>. This trend signals a slow yet steadily growing confidence in the economy and a positive future outlook from many companies. Now that doesn\u2019t mean a new job will fall into your lap. You\u2019ll still need to get noticed and recruiters, like Michael Ziegelbaum, of Infinity Consulting Solutions in Manhattan says, \u201cEmployers are always looking for that extra something in a candidate, even if it\u2019s not required for the role\u201d. That \u201cextra something\u201d could be anything from being proficient in graphic design to even speaking a second language. \u201cThese are all things most candidates will leave off a resume, especially if the role doesn\u2019t specifically call for it and that\u2019s a big mistake\u201d, according to Ziegelbaum.
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\nEmployers and HR personnel have become increasingly selective in who they hire and no matter how qualified a candidate may be, anything extra he or she can bring to the table \u2013 in a competitive job market \u2013 is something they absolutely should do.\u00a0Most jobseekers don\u2019t recognize just how much employers see language skills as a benefit.\u00a0 Communicating in a second language demonstrates a cognitive ability that many employers find attractive and deem a valuable asset. \u00a0It\u2019s estimated that\u00a0more than half\u00a0of the world\u2019s population, which works out to approximately 3.5 billion people, are bilingual and most of them keep it a secret on resumes and in face-to-face interviews.\u00a0 Now anyone could simply add a line to their resume stating they speak a second language but employers need to be sure. It\u2019s safe to say they won\u2019t just take your word for it. \u00a0After all, just because you can perfectly read the entr\u00e9es off an Italian restaurants\u2019 menu doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re bilingual. You\u2019d likely be better off proving your fluency with a\u00a0language assessment test<\/a>\u00a0to properly verify your speaking, reading, writing or listening abilities. \u00a0It\u2019ll go a long way and would remove any uncertainly an employer may have about just how well you communicate in a second language.<\/p>\n

Of course, it goes without saying that your experience or related work history (for any job opening) is most vital to successfully land the job, but speaking a second language could be the \u201cextra something\u201d that differentiates you from other candidates vying for the same job \u2026who don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the economy continues to slowly improve and unemployment levels drop, more and more jobseekers are finding the task of getting hired less daunting.\u00a0Unemployment rates in the United States decreased to 5.40 percent in April of 2015 from 5.50 percent a month earlier. This trend signals a slow yet steadily growing confidence in the economy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[16,48,97,92,7,6,132,133,118,131],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial","category-government","tag-actfl","tag-bilingual","tag-hiring","tag-hr","tag-language-testing","tag-lti","tag-recruiters","tag-resume-jobseekers","tag-staffing","tag-unemployment"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}