Foreign languages are desirable in many jobs.
What about Spanish or Chinese, for example?
Read the ranking of the most popular languages in the workplace here.
Foreign languages are in demand in many professions.
Accordingly, employers like to see an applicant possess language skills - some even explicitly request it.
Which foreign languages are currently most required by employers?
Foreign languages are particularly popular at work: English, French and Spanish
The job portal
Indeed
investigated
this question
with an evaluation of current
job advertisements
in the period from January to August 2020.
The result:
Romansh languages
are
the most popular
on the
German job market
alongside the global language
English
.
"Of all job advertisements that explicitly mention foreign language skills, at least five percent require language skills in
French, Spanish or Italian
," reports the portal.
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Job vacancies: English skills are often required for applicants
According to
the evaluation,
English is still by far the number one foreign language
.
"93.1% of the advertised jobs in which language skills are required require English as a foreign language." Overall, just over a fifth (18.1%) of job advertisements for the German market require specific foreign language skills.
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Most searched languages in job advertisements (as a percentage of job advertisements with language requirements on Indeed.com since January 2020):
1. English 93.1%
2. French 2.9%
3. Spanish 1.2%
4. Italian 0.9%
5. Russian 0.5%
6. Polish 0.5%
7. Arabic 0.3%
8. Chinese 0.3%
9. Turkish 0.2%
10. Portuguese 0.1%
With
Russian, Polish and Arabic
, there are other
languages
that are more widely used in job advertisements on Indeed.
“Chinese is only mentioned in 0.3% of all job advertisements for the German market.
One reason for this could be that, due to the complexity of the language, German employees of Chinese companies are often not even required to speak Chinese. ”Meanwhile, Turkish only appears in 0.2% of job advertisements that include special language skills as a criterion the portal also.
(
ahu) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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