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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 73 of 86 01 February 2013 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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And don't forget to mention Danish either, even if you only understand it in writing :)
With all the connections between Germany and Scandinavia, it's very likely that an employer who needs N/S/D speakers has already heard of this phenomenon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4650 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 74 of 86 12 February 2013 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd guess I'd mention a language on my CV if:
1) it was asked for 2) my level was B2 or higher 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hyrax Diglot Newbie Kenya Joined 4320 days ago 8 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Swahili, English Studies: German, French | Message 75 of 86 10 March 2013 at 11:29am | IP Logged | ||
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In my profession as tourist guide, speaking many languages is a big advantage. Languages are a priority on
the application for a job in my profession. The most useful languages are the ones spoken by the visitors to the region. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gomorritis Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4277 days ago 91 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Catalan, French Studies: Greek, German, Dutch | Message 76 of 86 29 March 2013 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you want to apply for a job in Spain, you should just write a few languages that they might consider important. If
you list 10 languages, they will just think you are a weirdo and not hire you, cause in Spain any knowledge outside your field of work is usually not well seen. For employers in Spain, the perfect employee is someone who knows a lot about his job but is a complete ignorant in any other issue. Don't list any hobbies either (as it's common in CV's in Northern Europe), just show you are a hard worker and easy to manipulate. Edited by Gomorritis on 04 April 2013 at 10:55am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5225 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 77 of 86 30 March 2013 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh, come on. That, real as it is, is not exclusive to Spain whatsoever. Someone in this forum (maybe even earlier in this very same thread) linked the both sad and hilarious article The Myth of the Well-Rounded Scientist. From my point of view, I am a better me partly because I have somewhat diverse interests. If potential employers think otherwise, I am probably better off not working for them -- it sounds just like that widespread image about the soul-crashing corporate approach to employment is too true in such cases. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gomorritis Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4277 days ago 91 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Catalan, French Studies: Greek, German, Dutch | Message 78 of 86 04 April 2013 at 10:54am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm sure it's not exclusive to Spain, but I do think the chances of encountering such an employer in Spain are much
higher than most west-northern Europe. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vogue Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4253 days ago 109 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian | Message 79 of 86 11 April 2013 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm in the International Politics field so languages are important, so I list mine, but
I'm honest about the level. So my last resume that I sent out said; "High level Spanish, basic Arabic and Hebrew." Or something like that. I'm applying for au pair positions to practice my Italian this summer and I have mentioned to a few families that I only speak basic Italian, but I understand it fairly well with my Spanish background (most want me to speak English while working, so this isn't a problem for the job itself). They've been OK with our Englishano conversations. My current employer (international politics field) was really interested in the Arabic/Hebrew combination, and told me that she had just gotten an email in Hebrew the previous week. I told her very honestly I would definitely not have been at a high enough level to translate more than a little of the email. She was OK with this, and I did get the job. So, I think you can include languages, but don't lie. Can you say basic things, or can you really talk? Edited by vogue on 11 April 2013 at 1:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| baskerville Trilingual Triglot Newbie Singapore scribeorigins.com Joined 4245 days ago 39 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: German*, Japanese Studies: Hungarian | Message 80 of 86 07 June 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here in my country, you can impress potential employers by putting in foreign languages
in your CV, even if they are not relevant to the job :P It's because they can see that you persevere in something and you wish to excel at it. In my CV, i put in all the languages I know and a short description of each regarding my skill (for example, "business level proficiency", "lower intermediate conversation and writing", etc) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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