Por Márcio Rezende

O instituto Brasileiro de Turismo (Embratur) prevê que 7,2 milhões de estrangeiros estarão no Brasil em 2014 para a Copa do Mundo. A meta para as Olimpíadas de 2016 é de 10 milhões de estrangeiros. Faltam apenas dois anos para o primeiro evento, diversas obras já estão sendo feitas, mas ainda há tempo para aprender um novo idioma para se comunicar com tantos turistas.

Pessoas que sabem outro idioma se destacam. Com a proximidade desses eventos grandiosos que irão atrair diversos estrangeiros para o país, o mercado de trabalho para quem fala outra língua só tende a crescer. Mesmo que você não queira aprender um idioma para trabalhar na Copa do Mundo ou nas Olimpíadas, que tal aprender…  read more

The goal of our ‘Language in the Workplace’ series is not just to share stories from people who practice their languages in their respective workplaces, but to illustrate to our community where and how you can apply what you’ve learned and perhaps find meaningful work or even a successful career using your multiple languages. In this post, Gio Donatelli of the Virginia Institute of Interpreting, outlines what it takes to be an interpreter.

by Gio Donatelli

Imagine that your doctor walks into your hospital room, looks at a clipboard, furrows his brow, looks at you and starts talking. But you have no idea what he’s saying.  Or, perhaps you are calling your bank because you see an error in your account…  read more

Guest Post: Daniel Owen – Recruitment Consultant for Euro London Appointments, Multilingual Recruitment Specialists. Daniel has written for us twice before (links below) and has a unique perspective to offer our readers in regard to what employers are looking for when it comes to bi- or multilingualism in the workplace and in the job market.

By Daniel Owen

Working at Euro London Appointments, Europe’s largest independent multilingual recruitment consultancy, new jobs come in daily for us to recruit for. These jobs are far ranging across many different sectors and at many levels of the pay scale but the one constant that they do have is that they all require the knowledge of at least one other language, sometimes even three or…  read more