Reason: 3
Career opportunities in the leisure and tourist industries exist for well-qualified people with a blend of land-based and management skills to develop these amenities, and of course the addition of foreign language skills can only enhance European and international employment opportunities
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Language for specific purposes, Mobility
Reason: 18
Architectural practices within the UK are increasingly involved in work in continental Europe and are forming European-wide practice collaborations... Scrutiny of job advertisements in newspapers and professional journals .. suggests that knowledge of a foreign language has become more and more essential for many jobs in the field of architecture
Reference:
Plasberg, U. (1999) ‘Building bridges to Europe: languages for students of other disciplines’ in the Language Learning Journal, No. 20, pp. 51-58
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Language for specific purposes, Mobility
Reason: 94
The European Union is built around the free movement of its citizens, capital and services. The citizen with good language skills is better able to take advantage of the freedom to work or study in another Member State
Reference:
Commission of the European Communities (2003) Promoting Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity: An Action Plan 2004-2006
Related Keywords:
Employability, European Union (EU), Language learning skills, Mobility, Study abroad
Reason: 107
Learning other languages gives you the chance to teach English in other countries
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, English Mother Tongue, Mobility, Teaching
Reason: 114
Speaking a language can lead to promotion and opportunities abroad
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility
Reason: 120
You could enjoy the challenge of language learning and welcome the opportunities that it brings such as career opportunities, travel etc.
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility, Personal satisfaction
Reason: 123
You will find it easier to cope abroad if you have learnt another language
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Mobility
Reason: 124
You'll be able to travel to a country in confidence if you know the language
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Mobility, Personal and social development
Reason: 147
Cultural awareness is a highly important career asset. To work successfully abroad, you need to have an appreciation of ideas, traditions, customs and lifestyles which are often very different from your own
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Culture, Employability, Intercultural competence, Mobility
Reason: 149
There are all sorts of jobs in the retail sector which involve working abroad
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 151
All of the British high street banks have international divisions and branches throughout the world. There is often a need for speakers of foreign languages in London branches and other tourist centres in this country
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 152
There are several routes to a career as a secretary or personal assistant where you can also use languages, and perhaps travel
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 157
Charities and aid agencies recruit salaried employees, and it is usually necessary, or at any rate desirable, for those who go to work overseas to have some capability in a foreign language
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 158
There are openings abroad, too, for nurses and other health care workers. Again some knowledge of relevant languages would obviously desirable
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Health, Mobility
Reason: 160
Europe is a growing market for job opportunities. Graduates who are fluent in a European language go into areas like the civil service, public relations, European Union institutions, European multinational companies, the armed services, customs and excise and research bodies within and outside the European university sector
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, European Union (EU), Mobility
Reason: 165
Languages can be a real advantage in many branches of the legal profession. Lawyers who have qualified in the UK can be found working all over the world, and several law firms based in the UK have offices abroad. Obviously, people who work in these situations need to be able to understand, speak, read and write foreign languages
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Language for specific purposes, Language learning skills, Law, Mobility
Reason: 171
Scientists do need languages. Many travel and work internationally for multinational organisations, or for companies which sell goods abroad. International collaboration goes on in scientific research, and such collaboration is openly encouraged amongst EU member states. So the ability to understand another language and to communicate with other scientists in their own language can be highly advantageous
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Communication, Employability, Language for specific purposes, Mobility
Reason: 173
The food industry is one of the largest in the EU and there are good career opportunities both in the UK and abroad for people with appropriate skills and knowledge
Reference:
King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, European Union (EU), Language for specific purposes, Mobility
Reason: 230
Improving language learning in the European Union is a key factor in the Lisbon strategy, as an essential building block of almost all aspects involved, from economic efficiency to mobility, from the creation of more and better jobs to social inclusion and cohesion
Reference:
European Commission DGEAC Summary of the First Report on the activities of the working group on languages (July 2002-June 2003)
Related Keywords:
Economic, social and political dimension, European Union (EU), Inclusion, Mobility, Social cohesion
Reason: 282
For British executives, a working knowledge of Middle Eastern and North African languages (for social interaction, or dealing with customs or road-blocks etc.) gives a real advantage
Reference:
Ehteshami, A. (2002) BRISMES: Report - Middle Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom: A Challenge for Government, Industry and the Academic Community (www.dur.ac.uk/brismes/report)
Related Keywords:
Business, Communication, Less Widely Used and Lesser Taught (LWULT) Languages, Mobility
Reason: 283
There is an increasing number of employment agencies which focus specifically on international jobs and jobs which require a language
Reference:
Connell, T. (2002) Languages and Employability: A Question of Careers (www.cilt.org.uk/careers/pdf/reports/employability.pdf)
Related Keywords:
Business, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 305
Clear signs of linguistic complacency, common observation suggests, are already present in the archetypal British or American tourist who travels the world assuming that everyone speaks English, and that it is somehow the fault of the local people if they do not
Reference:
Crystal, D. (1997) English as a Global Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Related Keywords:
Global English, Mobility, Values
Reason: 332
Qualifications, flexibility and mobility will be at a premium ..unless our education system can provide people with the skills to cope with the emerging challenges and opportunities - and these include language skills - the future will be tough for the next generation
Reference:
The Nuffield Languages Inquiry (2000) Languages: the next generation (London: The Nuffield Foundation)
Related Keywords:
Employability, Key skills, Mobility, Qualifications, UK
Reason: 338
The UK needs an international cadre of professionals. The pressure towards creating a more internationalised corpus of professionals is becoming more evident in many areas of activity, including medicine, law and accountancy. A knowledge of English alone will take them a long way, but not far enough to be able to work as effectively as their peers from other countries in an international environment. The dominance of English has been a powerful disincentive to learn other languages but the situation must be addressed if the UK is to maintain a cadre of professionals able to work worldwide and to ensure that mobility of expertise is a two-way process
Reference:
The Nuffield Languages Inquiry (2000) Languages: the next generation (London: The Nuffield Foundation)
Related Keywords:
Business, Careers, Employability, Global English, Mobility, UK
Reason: 342
With languages come mobility . Flexibility and mobility require linguistic and cultural expertise
Reference:
The Nuffield Languages Inquiry (2000) Languages: the next generation (London: The Nuffield Foundation)
Related Keywords:
Culture, Mobility
Reason: 390
Whichever career path young people choose, they will need the skills that make them employable in a world where recruitment is increasingly global, where flexibility and mobility are at a premium. As a nation, we owe it to them to ensure that they do not lose out in the jobs market to better educated and linguistically qualified candidates from other countries
Reference:
Response from the Steering Group of the Nuffield Languages Programme to the consultation document 14-19: extending opportunities, raising standards, 20 May 2002
Related Keywords:
Employability, Globalisation, Key skills, Mobility, UK
Reason: 393
Languages, particularly when reinforced through ICT, can help young people feel at ease with other cultures and with the knowledge economy, and to make their mark both here and abroad as citizens of a diverse, multilingual, global society
Reference:
Scottish Executive, Ministerial Action Group on Languages (2000) Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues (www.scotland.gov.uk-library3-education-mwki-07.asp)
Related Keywords:
Globalisation, Intercultural competence, IT skills (Information Technology), Knowledge, Mobility
Reason: 394
If young people leave school in a state of entrenched monolingualism or faltering and apologetic bilingualism, they will not enjoy equality with their more 'mobile' peers elsewhere in Europe when it comes to opportunities for further study, training, work experience or employment
Reference:
Scottish Executive, Ministerial Action Group on Languages (2000) Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues (www.scotland.gov.uk-library3-education-mwki-07.asp)
Related Keywords:
Education Studies, Employability, Equality (equal opportunities), Mobility, Work experience
Reason: 395
It would be unacceptable if the opportunities arising from 'mobility' were to be available only to elite groups within the population. Advice received from the business community suggests that there are opportunities and needs for languages both here and abroad across a wide spectrum of achievement and activity: not only for the high-powered international manager, the MEP, the diplomat or the international news reporter but also for the lorry-driver, the secretary, the shop assistant, the receptionist and the taxi-driver
Reference:
Scottish Executive, Ministerial Action Group on Languages (2000) Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues (www.scotland.gov.uk-library3-education-mwki-07.asp)
Related Keywords:
Accessibility, Business, Employability, Equality (equal opportunities), Inclusion, Mobility
Reason: 400
Global English can take people .. all over the world, thereby enabling contacts to be established that otherwise might not have occurred and from which opportunities and needs for modern languages may arise
Reference:
Scottish Executive, Ministerial Action Group on Languages (2000) Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues (www.scotland.gov.uk-library3-education-mwki-07.asp)
Related Keywords:
Global English, Mobility, Networking
Reason: 403
Each country lives its national life through its national and in some cases regional languages. Foreign visitors or residents who know nothing of that language ..... are likely to find themselves marginalised, even isolated. They will have access only to that information which is directed to the outsider
Reference:
Trim, J. (1997: 7) cited in Scottish Executive, Ministerial Action Group on Languages (2000) Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues (www.scotland.gov.uk-library3-education-mwki-07.asp)
Related Keywords:
Equality (equal opportunities), Inclusion, Mobility
Reason: 406
A capacity in an additional language is an indicator of the flexible, mobile, communicative and culturally aware talent that the business community are seeking to recruit
Reference:
Scottish Executive, Ministerial Action Group on Languages (2000) Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues (www.scotland.gov.uk-library3-education-mwki-07.asp)
Related Keywords:
Business, Communication, Employability, Intercultural competence, Mobility
Reason: 421
The study of a foreign language enables students to participate in the society whose language they study and to operate within different linguistic and cultural contexts. This places them in a privileged position: they can be ambassadors for their own society within the foreign society and they can also learn to view their own society from new perspectives. They can compare and contrast diverse visions of the world, thus promoting intercultural understanding and bringing distinctive benefits both to their own society, for example in employment terms, and to the society or societies of the target language(s)
Reference:
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (2002) Languages and Related Studies: Subject Benchmark Statements (Gloucester: QAA)
Related Keywords:
Culture, Employability, HE (Higher Education sector), Intercultural competence, Mobility, Personal and social development, UK
Reason: 445
Languages enable you to travel to other countries and feel part of the culture, respect the people living there by making an effort to communicate and not feel like a tourist
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Culture, Intercultural competence, Mobility, Values
Reason: 448
A foreign language will be very relevant if you join the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - you can demonstrate you have skill in learning languages
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Language awareness, Language learning skills, Mobility
Reason: 451
A language allows entry to the European marketplace
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility
Reason: 456
A language could help you if you want to work in the fashion industry, you'll be able to travel to Paris etc.
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 458
A foreign language could help you to get a good job that will mean you can travel to different countries
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility
Reason: 460
A foreign language enables you to communicate adequately in that country and to help people from those countries when they come here
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Mobility, UK, Values
Reason: 469
A language gives you more opportunities in terms of job location and communication worldwide
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 471
A language gives you the option of studying abroad
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Education Studies, Mobility, Study abroad
Reason: 477
A language helps you to understand certain situations which may arise while you are abroad
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Mobility, Understanding
Reason: 488
A language is helpful for everyday things when people are on holiday like going to the supermarket etc.
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Mobility
Reason: 500
A language will widen your options and destinations
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility
Reason: 503
Another language enables you to connect with citizens abroad when on holiday
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Mobility, Networking
Reason: 505
Another language helps you to overcome the stereotype of English not making any effort to speak foreign languages on holiday etc.
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Global English, Mobility, UK, Values
Reason: 519
If you are moved abroad with your job, you could need a language
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility
Reason: 521
If you go into journalism, you might be offered more opportunities to go abroad if you have another language
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 523
If you want to be a pilot, then you could need a language
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 526
If you want to be a travel journalist then another language is essential
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 528
If you want to be an air steward/ess, at least one foreign language is needed at advanced level
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility, Qualifications
Reason: 529
If you want to do a gap year, then a language will help
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Education Studies, Mobility
Reason: 530
If you want to do lots of travelling, you'll need to communicate and a language will help
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Mobility
Reason: 532
If you want to work abroad, a language will help you to understand your surroundings
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility, Understanding
Reason: 535
If you want to work with people, by knowing more languages, you can work in other countries
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility
Reason: 541
It’s polite to speak the language if possible when abroad
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Mobility, Values
Reason: 567
Languages allow access to foreign countries
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Mobility
Reason: 573
Languages are good for travelling later on
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Mobility
Reason: 575
Languages are important for companies with foreign branches
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Business, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 581
Languages can give you international opportunities
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Globalisation, Mobility
Reason: 586
Languages give you a more open mind and help you to be less ignorant when travelling abroad
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Knowledge, Mobility, Values
Reason: 587
Languages give you a wider perspective of working environments and you'll be highly sought after to communicate with Europe
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Communication, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 593
Languages help on holidays
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Mobility, Personal satisfaction
Reason: 604
Languages make it easier to travel and you'll enjoy your holidays more
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Mobility, Personal satisfaction
Reason: 607
Languages mean that you can do basically any job that you want anywhere in the world
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility
Reason: 611
Languages will be of great benefit if you wish to work abroad as a translator
Reference:
Sixth Former
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility, Translating
Reason: 623
A language degree is almost like a gift. It's an amazing advantage over other graduates. They're going to be working in English-speaking countries whereas you have the flexibility to go and work in a foreign-speaking country.
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Employability, HE (Higher Education sector), Mobility
Reason: 624
Languages just set you free. If you look at a map and notice how small Britain is in relation to the rest of the world, and you look at the size of Latin America... and ..you can go out there when perhaps the person next door to you is just going to be working here for the rest of their lives. It's just like liberation
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Employability, Mobility, Personal satisfaction
Reason: 657
Language learning improves confidence in social situations, especially when abroad
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Mobility, Personal and social development
Reason: 658
Language learning makes travelling easier, more enjoyable, more enlightening.
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Mobility, Personal and social development, Personal satisfaction
Reason: 664
If you are travelling around the world, speaking the language is better than shouting
Reference:
undergraduate: IWLP
Related Keywords:
Communication, Mobility, Values
Reason: 668
If you learn another language you will enjoy the opportunities it offers such as meeting people from different places around the world, travelling etc.
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Mobility, Networking, Personal satisfaction
Reason: 679
If you study a language you will leave university with a degree showing that you are capable of learning something new and which will enable you to travel easily and possibly live/work abroad
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Employability, HE (Higher Education sector), Learning, Mobility
Reason: 688
Having spent a compulsory year abroad on a language degree will show that you are more flexible/independent/determined/confident
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Employability, HE (Higher Education sector), Mobility, Personal and social development, Residence abroad
Reason: 701
If you wanted to work in a large acoustics company, a foreign language would enable you to research in Europe
Reference:
undergraduate: IWLP
Related Keywords:
Careers, Employability, Mobility
Reason: 716
If you learn languages, when you go abroad you are more able to concentrate and observe cultural aspects
Reference:
language undergraduate
Related Keywords:
Culture, Mobility

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