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| Title | News Article: Multilingualism Important for Job Seekers |
| Body | From http://www.dailyherald.com/search/searchstory.asp?id=282494 Want a new job? Think global. By Sheila Norman-Culp Associated Press February 18, 2007 Americans have heard for years about globalization. They have seen its impact on manufacturing industries, have protested its uneven local consequences and feared its inroads into new professions like medicine and law. But as a nation we’re not at the forefront — if we were, we would all be out studying foreign languages. Not only does that improve your job chances in the future, Kent State economist Donald Williams says it pays off right now in cold hard cash. Interested in whether Spanish should be required in the United States, Williams looked at Western Europe and found that being able to use a foreign language on the job there raised a worker’s earnings anywhere from 5 percent to 20 percent. In the United States, plenty of jobs — in medicine, law enforcement, government, education — already pay extra to those able to operate in a second language. More are expected to do so in the future. Read the entire article at http://www.dailyherald.com/search/searchstory.asp?id=282494 . |
| Source | Daily Herald, Chicago |
| Inputdate | 2007-02-25 10:24:31 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-03-01 00:00:00 |
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