Teresa Tinsley, the director of communications at CILT, the National Centre for Languages, has ranked speaking a modern language as high as IT and maths in terms of valuable skills for graduate job hunters to have on their CVs. Pointing towards the 'global village' of world business, she suggested that graduates who do not have the extra string to their bow of a modern language could be damaging their chances of not getting hired. She said: "It is going to be much more important to have a second language in the future, than it has been in the past. "There's going to be competition for jobs, competition from English speaking people from other countries as well who can offer a language. Languages have as much importance as maths, science and ICT. It's about understanding the wider world around you and being a rounded person as well." Her comments were made following research from CILT that showed languages from industrial powers such as Chinese dialects Mandarin and Cantonese, and Russian were seen as valuable by employers.
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