How many languages do you speak or write? If more than one, you may have a decided advantage over other job seekers and employees. Find out how to use your fluency to your best advantage. Mark Swartz - CareerActivist.com Monster.ca's National Career Coach

1. Employee & Job-Seeker Tip FLAUNT YOUR FLUENCY (BILINGUAL OR MULTI) Mark Swartz, Career Coach

2. 1 . BENEFITS OF BEING BILINGUAL OR MULTILINGUAL

4. Your language skills may be used to resolve problems between customers or colleagues involving cultural or language conflicts

6. You have experienced looking at problems and opportunities from different perspectives

9. If English is your second or third language, your grammar and spelling skills in English may not be as accurate as they should be

10. At work, this might lead to extra errors in your written work, or unnecessary misunderstandings

13. Take courses to improve your written English in order to reduce the number of errors you make

15. For multilingual job seekers, apply to organizations in Canada that do international trade with countries or regions where your languages are spoken

16. At work, volunteer to help out at work with problems or opportunities where multilingualism is required

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