Eda Uzuncakara shared her language learning journey with the hope to inspire people to “find their voice in a new language.” As a bilingual professional, IT manager, entrepreneur, and writer, Eda found her voice in English as her new language while she continues to keep her roots in her first language, Turkish. In her story, […]
Continue readingJob seeking? Why employers may ask you to do a language assessment.
You are actively looking for a job and you also happen to be bilingual or multilingual. You come across a job posting by a potential employer with a job that is perfect for you and requires the languages you are fluent in. You have hit the jackpot! You apply, and during the selection process the […]
Continue readingDelivering Equitable Access for Advancement Opportunities
A company cannot truly achieve a diverse and inclusive workplace without establishing equity and equitable pathways that remove the barriers to entry, access, and advancement for its diverse employees. One tangible way to create these equitable pathways is through education and job opportunity. JetBlue’s Global Scholars Program provides major cost coverage for employees to pursue […]
Continue readingCommitment to Enhancing Employee-Customer Relations
The landscape of today’s marketplace is highly focused on the quality of relationships. There are clear connections between employee satisfaction and customer experience, but there are other connections between employees and customers—such as language. How can language, and a commitment to language, redefine employee-customer relations? As Alex Shashkevich, of Stanford News, writes, “people speak roughly […]
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