Looking for a Job? Are You Bilingual? It Can Make a Difference!


by Jorge Chavez - Date: 2007-04-15 - Word Count: 373 Share This!

Are you bilingual? If you are it can help you get a job! How? Read on...

Hispanics are the largest minority group in the U.S. with over 42 million members, totaling 13.7% of the U.S. population. 40% of these (17 million) speak English less than "very well".

Total Hispanic discretionary income in 2004 was estimated at just under $700 billion. This is expected to grow to over $1 trillion by 2010.

With these numbers and that spending power, is it any wonder that there are many business out there eager to deal with that population and cater to their needs? To do business with people who don't speak English, speak only or mostly Spanish, you have to have personnel who can communicate with your customers. Hence the need for bilingual employees in a wide range of jobs.

So just how widespread is this need? It is hard to say exactly, but maybe the following would shed some light on the subject.

Searching on the largest U.S. employment network at careerbuilders.com, on April 14, 2007, for "bilingual" in the job title yielded 12,230 jobs in the search results. There were 160 pages of results, listing jobs in 33 states.

The overwhelming majority of these jobs were for people who could speak both English and Spanish. There were 4,530 job listings in Sales, 3,698 in Management, 3,489 in Customer Service, 2,592 in Retail, 1,971 in Administrative and Clerical, 1,586 in Health Care... the list goes on and on, through 63 categories.

California had the highest demand with 2,033 positions offered, followed by Florida (1,724), Texas (1,444) and Illinois (671). There were 34 companies listed as employers seeking employees. Radio Shack led the list with 526 positions to fill, followed by R-Solutions, Subsidiary (436), Sprint (374) and 31 others.

If you want more details or proof, go to CareerBuilders.com, type in "bilingual" and hit the search button yourself. Look at the specific job offerings, in the city and state of your choosing. You will quickly see that there is a huge job market for bilingual people. Probably someone, somewhere is looking for someone with skills just like yours. But to qualify they must be bilingual.

Speaking a language is an acquired skill. If you learned Spanish, then you could qualify for some of these jobs!


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Jorge Chavez has been an internet entrepreneur and marketer since 2002. He began to learn Spanish after he was 30, now is bilingual English-Spanish. He has monolingual friends, relatives and clients who only speak Spanish and others who only speak English. http://rocket-spanish.ya23.com

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