Viet Nam: Rushing to learn foreign languages to get good jobs

[Francis Hult]

VietNamNet Bridge

 

Rushing to learn foreign languages to get good jobs

 

The majority of trainees at foreign language centres are those who have stable jobs already. They need to learn one foreign language at least to get a promotion.

 

Advertisement pieces about job vacancies always say that candidates with foreign language skills are preferred. Fluency in a foreign language is a compulsory requirement for those who apply for securities or website design companies.

 

Phan Thi Thu Huong, Deputy Director General of Thien Long Company, said that employers always consider foreign language skills as the first requirement to short-list candidates. 

 

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http://english.vietnamnet.vn/education/2007/11/753983/

 
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