Are you bilingual and looking for a job in France? Mister Bilingue has put together a list of all the best positions for people who speak several languages!
Knowing how to speak several languages is a hugely valuable asset both personally and professionally. Whether you have the gift of multiple languages thanks to your family, a love of travelling or simply subtitles on your favourite series, it's important to maintain this increasingly valuable skill.
If you're looking to start a career that allows you to take advantage of your language skills, the Mister Bilingue team has put together a list of the 10 best roles for bilingual people!
It's probably the first job that comes to mind when thinking about roles that require knowledge of multiple languages. Did you think this profession might be dying out with the dawn of machine translation? Far from it!
In our increasingly globalized world, professional translators are essential for international communication. This is a job that requires skills beyond simple linguistic knowledge: it's equally important to understand multiple cultures and contexts, and to be able to interpret and adapt written texts and speech for different audiences, all while maintaining reliability and speed. These are all essential skills for professional translators and, as a job that's more technical than meets the eye, it requires dedicated training to succeed.
Want to know more about becoming a professional translator? Check out this guide!
Sales is a profession that requires increasingly in-depth language skills in order to serve an increasingly globalized clientele, especially when it comes to the main tourist hotspots.
A sales advisor's main responsibility is to welcome customers to the store, to ascertain their needs and to advise them as best they can on selecting a product for purchase.
Although it's not always necessary to have previous experience, working in sales does require certain qualities, such as people skills, politeness, proactiveness, composure and negotiation skills. In order to work your way up the ladder, you'll need to undertake training in management and sales techniques. All in all, this is a great field for getting started with your first job and learning a little more about the world of work!
Are you looking to transfer your language skills into sales consulting? Check out our job offers in the field!
Is strategizing and consulting what makes you tick? Both these things are at the heart of an account manager's role in any business.
Rather than selling a product or service, the job of the account manager is is to look after the client relationship by anticipating and attending to their needs in the most efficient way possible. An account manager is responsible for delivering a personalized service that ensures client satisfaction, all while making good use of their negotiating skills.
An account manager is often in charge of numerous clients at any one time, which means that this role is one that relies on organization and diplomacy (in addition to knowledge of the business' products and services) to achieve your commercial objectives.
So, do you think you have what it takes to be an account manager? Take a look at our job offers to start applying for account manager roles!
Not a million miles away from account manager, the business developer oversees prospecting and business strategy.
It is the business developer's responsibility to uncover new opportunities in the market and devise innovative strategies for increasing the business' turnover. By establishing a strategy to be deployed across several departments in the company, it is this person's job to prospect new customers and establish a relationship of trust with them.
In addition to a fixed annual salary of around €35,000-€50,000, it's usually possible to earn a bonus depending on your sales figures, which will motivate you to work even harder!
Are you a business developer at heart? Pick the right position for you from among our many offers!
Do you get a buzz from teaching people new things? Then the teaching profession may be for you!
Depending on your language skills and qualifications, there are opportunities to work as a private teacher (especially in adult education), as a schoolteacher (primary, middle and high school) or even as a university teacher.
A language teacher is adept at using a variety of creative educational tools, such as films, music, games and reading, to instill in their students all the required knowledge to learn a new language, whether the emphasis be on spelling, grammar, or oral pronunciation.
Being a language teacher requires a great deal of patience and self-sacrifice, but it's all worth it when the students get their results at the end of the year!
To find out more about this rewarding field, you can take a look at this breakdown.
The role of a customer service agent is among the easiest jobs to obtain seeing as it doesn't require extensive training. A customer service agent assists exhibitors at events in international fairs, including welcoming clients and presenting the company and its products.
Customer service jobs will often receive a great deal of applicants, mostly from students looking to find short-term work during their spare time.
These roles don't necessarily pay as well as others (expect a little less than €10 per hour for an average of ten hours per day) but it's certainly worth considering, so long as you're not afraid of standing on your feet for several hours at a time!
If you're interested in this job, go and have a look at our bilingual job offers!
Ready to take off on a new adventure? Find out more about the flight attendant profession!
The flight attendant's main responsibility is to ensure the wellbeing and safety of passengers over the duration of the flight. The ability to multitask being a must, a flight attendant is expected to offer a quality on-board service, guarantee passenger comfort and manage the aircraft's supply levels before and after each flight.
This is a job that demands several essential qualities, such as composure, stress management and a certain disposition, as well as eloquence, people skills and, last but not least, a way with languages! (That shouldn't come as any surprise considering that it's bilingual jobs we're here to talk about…)
Before packing your bags for a new adventure, find out a little more about this field!
Writing in line with a communication strategy is a content writer's bread and butter.
This is a job that requires strong writing skills, creativity and an enquiring mind, as well as the desire to acquire the technical skills needed for effective digital communication.
A content writer is in charge of writing articles, announcements, newsletters or even product descriptions on a whole variety of topics, all while bearing in mind content optimization to ensure the best possible visibility for the site's users. This is a task requiring knowledge of SEO, techniques aimed at increasing a website's rankings across search engine results.
The objective of a content writer is to help increase the business' visibility on specific keywords in comparison with competitors, with the aim of increasing traffic to the site (and in turn, more business).
With a growing number of companies looking to connect with an international audience, a good knowledge of several languages can be a valuable asset to your application!
Want to know more about this expanding line of work? You can find out more with this handy list of skills.
Though less technical than teaching, babysitting has gradually become more and more professionalized, transforming into a profession centered around teaching, kindness, and the joy of sharing.
More and more parents in full-time employment are turning to babysitters to both take care of their children and teach them new things, especially when it comes to languages. It's for that reason that so many expatriates are working in this field, promoting the knowledge of their native language to parents looking to introduce their children to new cultures.
As a full-time occupation, this job can be an excellent way of integrating into a new country.
You've got your sights set on becoming the next James Bond, right? Totally doable!
OK, it's not actually doable, sorry. Working in intelligence, however, definitely is!
With globalization and the dawn of new technologies, the intelligence services in many countries, notably France, are increasingly on the lookout to recruit graduates to help them in their mission to secure the country.
Translators, for example, are highly sought after by recruiters in this field, particularly given in the context of international threats that make the ability to speak languages such as Arabic, Russian, Chinese or certain African dialects all the more valuable.
Technicians, administrators and other professionals can also find a place in this field: recruiters are, above all, looking for candidates wishing to serve their country.
That's a wrap on this top 10 best jobs for bilingual people!
We hope that this article has inspired you to find the bilingual job that best suits your profile, and if you're still searching for the job of your dreams, we suggest taking a look at Mister Bilingue's list of job offers!
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