No foreign language? No job!

[Francis Hult]

The Hamburg Express

 

No foreign language? No job!

 

Increasingly many small and midsize businesses are certain: English is a must! Eleven percent of 1,000 small and midsize businesses surveyed by the EU Commission stated that they had lost orders because of inadequate foreign-language skills; 26% of those businesses specified English and 13% mentioned German as the most important languages for export commerce. Nearly half of the surveyed businesses accordingly plan to improve their staffs' foreign-language skills in the coming three years. New applicants who have already perfectly mastered one or more foreign languages prior to applying for a job are much more likely to be hired. 

 

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http://www.thehamburgexpress.com/content/view/1552/61/

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