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Learning second language, study abroad helps students get advantage in job market

By admin on March 18, 2011 in Language Learning

Compared to most other countries, the U.S. has an incredibly high literacy rate and continues to ensure that the youth can read and write. According to the CIA World Fact Book, the U.S. has a literacy rate of 99 percent. Literacy is defined by the CIA as a “resident of the United States age 15 or over that can read or write.” The literacy rate of a country is a strong indicator of the quality and the accessibility of education. With the world’s changing economy, however, it seems just being able to read and write in a country’s respective language won’t be enough.

Think about it. When a student graduates with a bachelor’s or even a master’s degree, he is supposedly armed with the skill set and knowledge required to be successful in an entry level job in a given career. One of the key skills any company will ask of you is the ability to communicate. Can you efficiently communicate with individuals or groups of people? How effectively can you lead a group of your peers? Do people like taking direction from you? These are all questions that fresh out of college graduates could face.

If today’s job market looked like the relatively prosperous one from the early to mid 1990s, many of us could answer the questions above with a defiant yes. I, for one, think the America………….
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