Casual Analysis

            Imagine you are a college graduate seeking for a job relating to your major. You have applied to a good amount of places hiring and now waiting for a call back. After a couple weeks, you finally get a phone call from one of the jobs, setting a time and date for an interview. During the interview you are informed that many incoming customers speak Spanish and only Spanish. You are then asked if you speak this language or any other language other than English which brings you back to your freshman year of  high school. You now realize why learning a foreign language was a requirement in your high school and how it effects you when applying for a job. Today in society, the qualifications for a job are changing as more applicants with the ability to speak more than one language are more likely to get a job. 

             Charlotte Mission states in her article "What Are the Benefits of Bilingual Jobs?" on eHow.com that bilingualism is useful in any job and creates many jobs incentives. When seeking a job, speaking another language is an advantage and can increase your chances of getting hired aside from all the other qualities needed for the job. By obtaining the knowledge of speaking another language other than English, you are out to be more valuable for a job. Therefore, the importance of being able to fluently speak more than one language is beneficial for you. But being bilingual can be of assistance to the customers and allow you to be attentive to their needs.

            According to the United States Census, there are 39 language groups. As a result of this, communication is one aspect of how speaking more than one language is important in a work place. The United States is very diverse and being able to speak more than one language allows you to easily communicate with those who only speak a foreign language. Apply this to the work place: the more bilingual people hired, the better the chances of that customer returning. Why, you may ask? Since the United States has a wide variety of different languages spoken due to all kinds of people from all over the world coming to America, the work place needs employees who can communicate and translate for them. If a customer's questions and/ or concerns can be answered, they are satisfied and are more likely to recommend or return which is extremely beneficial for a business.

            To sum up, bilingualism is, in fact, very useful in a work place. It opens more doors and more opportunities come your way. Speaking more than one language is not only beneficial to you but also for the job itself and the customers. Suffolk freshman Thays Tejeda says her school has a large amount of international students. "Because I am bilingual, I am more valuable at my job since I can communicate better with those students who do not have English as their first language.”