Kantaridou, Zoe, Papadopoulou, Iris and Angouri, Jo (2018) “It’s good to have a language under your belt” : the value of foreign languages in the Greek job market. In: Sherman, Tamah and Nekvapil, Jiri, (eds.) English in Business and Commerce. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 256-275.

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Abstract

Language skills have become an essential qualification for job seekers, especially in countries whose national language is not considered as commonly used for international business. Against this backdrop, this paper reports on a study concerned with the landscape of language demand in the Greek job market by means of systematic indexing of job advertisements in daily/Sunday press, specialized job agencies and company websites. The results indicate that although a low percentage of job postings explicitly refer to a language requirement, it is common in senior, high skilled positions. Languages are also more in demand in specific industries including: informatics, shipping, science, law, agriculture, engineering and economics. In this paper we report on the findings of this work and discuss the implications for language policy on a national level including the introduction of a wider variety of language at Higher Education (HE) level.

Item Type:	Book Item
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Publisher:	De Gruyter Mouton
Place of Publication:	Berlin, Boston
Book Title:	English in Business and Commerce
Editor:	Sherman, Tamah and Nekvapil, Jiri
Official Date:	2018
Dates:	Date Event 2018 Published
Volume:	5
Page Range:	pp. 256-275
DOI:	10.1515/9781501506833-011
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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