[Looking For a Job? Learn to Speak Another Language Besides English and You'll Get Hired]

      Last week, while sitting in the waiting room at the hospital, I noticed a couple of white doctors talking to a patient in Spanish. They were talking fluent Spanish and engaged in a conversation with her. It was nothing new, I've seen it countless times. But it reminded me of a part time job offer I got a few months back, to translate English to Urdu at an elementary school.  Unfortunately I do not speak the language (I speak fluent Bengali), but it was a clear sign that in order to get jobs in many fields, one has to learn to speak a language other than English.  

Professors in college told me the same thing, in order to make your resume stand out, you need to have something unique, and having the ability to speak in several languages becomes beneficial to employers.  The same applies to teachers. The NYC Board of Education gives teachers who speaks multiple languages a higher preference when hiring because they can easily understand the concerns of a student without a translator. It saves them time and money.  There are always certain languages that get priority (Spanish, Chinese) over others because of need, but still, having multiple languages on a resume makes an individual more intriguing to any employer than someone who doesn't.

      Does speaking multiple languages increase the chance of getting hired?  Do you speak another language other than English? What is it?