Posted on 07/15/2015 8:09:20 AM PDT by sevinufnine
In yet another sign of Charlotte’s growing immigrant workforce a new kind of job fair is being held Friday to recruit ONLY people who speak more than one language.
Organizers believe it may be the first of many to come.
The Latin American Coalition has programs aimed at helping immigrants find work and it has lately enjoyed growing success. In the past six months, the number of immigrants finding work through its job preparedness programs jumped from 8 to 15 percent, agency officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...
Shame Charlotte is not providing classes to teach immigrants now to speak English.
Also noticed a high school diploma is required. If they went to school here, wouldn’t they speak English? If in Mexico what type of “official” proof of high school diploma would they have? Just wondering....
“to recruit ONLY people who speak more than one language.”
Jeb! and Marco Rubio approve.
Hate to break it to’em but this is nothing new. Its just business and been going on since at least the 1990’s in many parts of the country. But I agree if they come here they need to learn the language as would I if I moved to Mexico.
This is nothing new. Being from Tampa I was unable to get a job at the airport because I didn’t speak Spanish! I was young, just out of high school, and wanted a job at the ticket counter. Nope...not without Spanish (but I was told if I was fluent in another language it would “help me be considered” for employment.)
OH by the way....my attempt to work for the airport and have this happen was in 1981....
Meaning what, Spanish and Portuguese?
Two of my three daughters got jobs in the Salt Lake City area where "customer service employees who speak multiple languages" means exactly that. Japanese happens to be their other language. Adobe, Google, American Express and a gaggle of other companies have call centers there. Some of them even pay halfway decently.
In SoCal our Mexican ‘guests’ have learned that Spanish can easily eliminate the use of English, courtesy of our government and our big businesses. Órale!
I had a similar experience at LAX in the ‘70s.
I remember my husband telling me about the Catholic church in his small town in American’s heartland looking for a priest in the 1970s. One of the requirements was that the priest be bilingual so that he could hear the confessions of the older parishioners. The second language required: Czech.
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