Comments on: Are people who speak Spanish, English, Japanese, and Chinese in high demand in the business world? http://www.spanishlatinamerican.com/are-people-who-speak-spanish-english-japanese-and-chinese-in-high-demand-in-the-business-world.html Spanish in Latin America and Spanish in Spain - learn it all Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:23:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MicroKool http://www.spanishlatinamerican.com/are-people-who-speak-spanish-english-japanese-and-chinese-in-high-demand-in-the-business-world.html/comment-page-1#comment-2733 MicroKool Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:05:24 +0000 http://www.spanishlatinamerican.com/are-people-who-speak-spanish-english-japanese-and-chinese-in-high-demand-in-the-business-world.html#comment-2733 Well it all depends on where do you go looking for work, just to give you a quick example, in the company I work for, there was a position available and someone with similar characteristics applied for it (spoke 5 languages fluently), but on the other hand not much experience on the job (only had 1 previous job where the emphasis was on the languages) and our company only deals with local clients, in the US, in the same state and most of them the same city, so really her "talent" was not a fit for us. And in our company most of us speak at least 2 languages but other than being great when we have social outings, its not really a plus when it comes to our work here. Well it all depends on where do you go looking for work, just to give you a quick example, in the company I work for, there was a position available and someone with similar characteristics applied for it (spoke 5 languages fluently), but on the other hand not much experience on the job (only had 1 previous job where the emphasis was on the languages) and our company only deals with local clients, in the US, in the same state and most of them the same city, so really her "talent" was not a fit for us.

And in our company most of us speak at least 2 languages but other than being great when we have social outings, its not really a plus when it comes to our work here.

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