The aim of this study is to assess the importance given by job interviewers/recruiters to the effective language skills of successful candidates, according to the requirements as advertised in job offers. The analysis has been carried out on a sample of job advertisements published by national and international firms, either at a national or global level. The corpus is composed of 111 job offers that were posted on the university website SOUL. The parameters that has been considered in this research are : 1) the actual demand for language skills ; 2) the company layout ; 3) the mention to specific language requirements for the job advertised. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the job offers advertised by the potential employers hasn’t identified any specific reference to the language skills and the different levels of competence required, as well as to the job-specific language needs.
L’objectif de cette analyse est d’évaluer l’importance accordée par les recruteurs aux compétences linguistiques des candidats à l’insertion sur le marché du travail, à partir des prérequis qu’ils expriment dans les annonces d’emploi. L’étude a été conduite sur un échantillon de profils de candidats publiés par des entreprises nationales et internationales, qui opèrent aussi bien sur le territoire national italien qu’au niveau international. Le corpus analysé se compose de 111 offres d’emploi publiées sur le portail interuniversitaire SOUL. Les paramètres pris en considération pour l’analyse sont 1) la présence ou non d’une demande de compétence linguistique, 2) les caractéristiques des entreprises et 3) la formulation et la spécification des compétences linguistiques requises. Une analyse quantitative et qualitative de la nature des demandes formulées par les employeurs potentiels permet d’observer qu’il n’y a pas de véritable expression précise, de la part des recruteurs, des compétences et des différents niveaux de connaissance linguistique qu’ils demandent au candidat et, par conséquent, des besoins linguistiques qu’ils associent au profil d’emploi.
Embauche et compétences linquistiques: le point de vue de l'entreprise / Zappacosta, Dionino. - In: REPÈRES-DORIF. - ISSN 2281-3020. - ELETTRONICO. - 4:n. 4/2013(2013), pp. ...-....
Embauche et compétences linquistiques: le point de vue de l'entreprise
ZAPPACOSTA, Dionino
2013
Abstract
The aim of this study is to assess the importance given by job interviewers/recruiters to the effective language skills of successful candidates, according to the requirements as advertised in job offers. The analysis has been carried out on a sample of job advertisements published by national and international firms, either at a national or global level. The corpus is composed of 111 job offers that were posted on the university website SOUL. The parameters that has been considered in this research are : 1) the actual demand for language skills ; 2) the company layout ; 3) the mention to specific language requirements for the job advertised. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the job offers advertised by the potential employers hasn’t identified any specific reference to the language skills and the different levels of competence required, as well as to the job-specific language needs.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.