Job prospects after learning Chinese

[Ruskin]

Hi, everyone! I'm a new member here, I want to know what are the good job prospects after learning Chinese language. I know a lot of the members here are pretty much experienced and posses good Chinese language skills so I'd be happy to hear it from you people. Would you get better job opportunities in China or your native country ( solely on the basis of Chinese language/foreign language skills). Please pour in your experience, suggestions etc. Thank you! Cheers!

[somethingfunny]

Hello Ruskin, and welcome to the forum.

 

This question comes up every now and again and a quick search for "job prospects" threw up the following results

 

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

Link 4

 

Which may or may not be what you're looking for.  Hopefully you'll have someone come along and tell you their personal story, but I imagine what you'll probably get is a lot of the following:

• No, and it doesn't matter, because we're all learning Chinese for the love of the language.  Right?
• Yes, become fluent in Chinese and you'll be the next CEO of Google.
• It doesn't matter how good your Chinese is, there's more than a billion fluent speakers and a lot of them already speak damn good English.
• Chinese is useful, and can improve your job prospects, but unless you wan't to be a Chinese teacher, you're going to need to pair it up with another skill.  Do this, and you're basically set for life.

Most sensible people will subscribe to the last of these views.

[DavyJonesLocker]

It depends on what career path you choose. Realistically if you want to be successful in chosen career (business medicine, engineering etc) ,  it's your major and university that gets you your first job. After that your work experience, what university you graduated from and contacts will decide everything.

 

Chinese will just be a tool in the armory.

 

Naturally if you work as an interpreter, translator, sales rep in China they skill is paramount but generally in business on international scale, languages are unimportant.