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Multi-lingual career suggestions

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Marinetta · 23/09/2019 14:19

I speak 3 european languages fluently and I'm looking for a career change but I am having trouble finding a job that will utilise my language skills and was hoping some of you might have a few suggestions of what type of thing I can look for. I'm not interested in teaching or translation work but I definitely want a job whwre I will be using various languages on a daily basis. Unfortunately the jobs I am finding at the moment seem to only require language skills a couple of times per week to answer the occasional email or phone call which is not what I'm looking for. I'm currently working in accounts recievable for an international fashion company but it's not an industry or a job that I want to stay in. I'd love to hear what other jobs people are doing that allow them to use their language skills on a daily basis.

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IWouldPreferNotTo · 23/09/2019 17:11

I work with lots of multi-lingual people but unfortunately they do what you do. In accounts payable and accounts receivable for large companies there are often jobs where you'll get to use 2-3 languages everyday.

I've been on projects where an office had people covering every major european language + english + the local language.

I've hired contract trainers in the past for where we've done large software rollouts. Generally a 6-8 week contract where 2-3 weeks is spent training the local language trainer and 4-5 weeks training the staff.

Rainbowhairdontcare · 26/09/2019 17:38

Business development is one. Another one is content moderation.

Marinetta · 26/09/2019 18:55

@IWouldPreferNotTo - you're right a lot of multi lingual work seems to be focused on accounts payable or recievable. All of my multi lingual friends do similar jobs and the only difference is the industry and the conditions.

@Rainbowhairdontcare I've oreviously done business development and it's definitely not for me. Facebook opened a content moderation centre close to me not long ago but unfortunately it has had a lot of bad publicity and employee turnover is really high so I don't think I'll be applying there.

Thanks for the input though. It's been helpful that I've realised that maybe I need to rethink what I'm looking for and not focus so much on the languages side of things.

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SunnySomer · 27/09/2019 11:16

There are lots of multilingual customer service jobs near me - the kind of thing where you need to have phone/web chats to support your customers - but it’s a luxury clothing brand so prob not what you’re looking for. But it would be actively and regularly using your languages

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