Question: From all of the states in the USA, which five states have posted the most jobs in your BilingualJobFair.com web site so far?
Answer: It seems like this information changes every month. For now, the top five posting states are North Carolina, California, Florida, South Carolina and Texas. We have also had many job postings from New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia … as well as from our friends in Canada. Our bilingual online recruiting site is growing more every day!And I love seeing the growth. I want to thank all of the companies that have posted jobs with us so far and all of the bilingual job candidates. Hope we continue to see companies and great candidates connect through us each and every day.
We have received many questions from companies as well as from job seekers, about our bilingual job board – BilingualJobFair.com – so we will cover some questions and answers here, in case that you have the same questions. We had to do some research for some of the good questions we have received – and the results are very interesting to us. Thank you for your questions!
Question: What are the top ten languages, which job candidates are searching for in your bilingual employment site?
This weekend I’ll be celebrating 30 years in the USA. On January 8th, 1981 - my plane landed at JFK Airport in New York City. The USA became ‘home’ for me, although I did not know it at the time my plane had landed. My intentions were to learn English, go to a good advertising university, work for about 5 years, and then go back home,to Puerto Rico. However, life had other plans for me. It all began when I met my husband in our last semester in college, at Syracuse University. From that point on, my commitment to the USA became stronger and this country ended up becoming my home forever.
I can not believe that it has been 30 years now. My memories of the ‘big move’ to the ‘big apple’ are still pretty vivid. The road I’ve traveled in the USA has had its ‘ups and downs’, along with some curves, valleys, and numerous hills along the way (steep hills I should add) but I’ve traveled it all a-mile-at-a-time, and never losing the momentum needed to reach my final destination…my goals. I truly wouldn’t trade the road I’ve chosen for anything in the world. It’s been a good road thus far. Yes, it is true. The USA is the ‘land of opportunity’. If you have dreams, if you work hard and don’t deviate from those dreams, you can make them come true. Motivation, persistence, hard work and high standards have been my key to accomplishing my goals. Also, the people I have met along the way have been a blessing in my life, and have made it a better road for me. Since this blog has a bilingual theme to it, I’ve thought that to commemorate my special moving date, that I would share some of my personal stories, which I’ve included in previous blogs. Hope you can learn something from my experiences, and that they give you hope. May they help you in your path to becoming bilingual, help you in assisting someone who wants to become bilingual, or in accomplishing your own goals and dreams. Thank you for being an avid reader of this blog and for being a part of BilingualJobFair.com.
Below are some of my previous blogs, which include some of my personal stories:
Example 2 – Food distributor having a bilingual sales representative in ‘Little Italy’, in the Latino community, or in the Irish or German community
If the company offers specialty products, those products can be sold better to the specific community by an Italian, Hispanic, Irish or a German person. Why? Because the bilingual person understands the product, they might have used the product themselves – all of their lives – and can answer the questions to the client. Also, if you are a believer of a product and or a service, you can sell it. In the end, the company can benefit by hiring a bilingual and multi-cultural employee to service that community. There may be better relationships – and oftentimes – better relationships equal better sales for a company.
Having bilingual sales jobs can be very beneficial for companies; large, medium and small organizations alike. When a sales person can explain a product or a service to the end user (the person who will purchase the product or service) and can do it in their own language, the sales person can connect better with the consumer and can sell the features and answer questions more easily. The client will understand the purchase better, can ask more questions, and might give more loyalty to the company, in recognition for their good bilingual service.
In the following blogs, I’ll provide several examples of the benefits I see in hiring bilingual sales representatives.
Example 1 of the advantages of having bilingual sales jobs – or a bilingual company representative – Delivery Truck-Delivery Package person in Chinatown, NY – or Chinatown in San Francisco, CA
Sending a Chinese company Representative – or someone who is totally fluent in Mandarin-Chinese will provide a tremendous benefit to the company, because they can communicate better with the clients or prospective clients. The hundreds of companies in Chinatown can create a better relationship with the specific bilingual company representative. They will see each other daily, and the Chinatown companies can end up giving the bilingual representative more business. Comfort and loyalty can be a direct result of their relationship. The delivery company can see benefits in their bottom line. Ultimately, everyone involved can be happy with the end result.
Mylene Duffy is the founder of the Bilingual Job Fair. She has hired many professionals over the course of her career, and is an advocate for bilingual employment. Mylene did not speak English when she came to live in the States in the early 80’s. She took an intensive English course and enrolled at Syracuse University, where she graduated with a degree in communications. She is now proud to be fully bilingual in English and Spanish.
