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Mme Naditz's French Class Blog
Are there jobs for French speakers?
Let's dispell a myth right off the bat. We've all heard this one: there is no need to learn French; no one speaks it, and no one needs it in the U.S.
How wrong that is! I just did a job search on monster.com. There were 1,118 jobs around the country under the keyword "French". Of those, more than 400 were in California and very few--less than 100 nationwide--were jobs that did not in fact require French proficiency (such as jobs at French restaurants, jobs on "French Rd." and so on).
That's more than 1,000 jobs for those who become proficient in French. These jobs are in all kinds of fields: secretarial, accounting/banking, media, graphic design, medicine, legal careers, and more. Anything you want to do, there is probably someone somewhere looking for a French speaker to do it.
And the biggest travesty is that those jobs will often go unfilled because the employers cannot find French speakers to take the positions. Of course, if you are a French speaker who is qualified to do the job, you will likely be hired because there won't be a lot of French speakers competing with you!
How many jobs are there for French speakers in fields in which you are interested? Check out monster.com.
