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If you speak more than one language you could consider yourself as lucky because most people only know how to speak one language fluently. For this reason, it is important to promote yourself in order for recruiters to become aware of your unique selling point, i.e. the languages you speak besides your experience. Therefore, the following post will discuss some tips that may be useful for the bilingual readers.

It’s all about the evidence

A CV is perhaps the most important piece of paper, as this piece of paper will ultimately determine your future. For this reason it is important to have professional certificates, besides your experience, included on your CV. If you speak English fluently, why not take an English test, so that you can include this on your CV. You can do the same for any other language. This will serve as evidence that you not only speak the language, but also have been officially examined, thus have got evidence.

Your personal online brand

Even though you might not be aware of it, everyone has a personal online brand. The way you interact online and the sort of social media you use will have an impact on your brand. If you for example have set up a Facebook account whereby your profile is made visible for the entire public, and you have got some unprofessional and/or informal pictures displayed on your profile, it might not pursued potential recruiters to give you the job you want, because they may dislike your personal brand. For this reason, it is important to be aware of what you post online and the privacy settings.

Besides this, you should promote your unique selling points everywhere you can, as recruiters will look you up on the internet. This means that you should include the languages you speak on your Facebook profile and make sure that this section is visible for the public. Besides your Facebook profile you might also have a twitter account. Twitter allows you to include a short description below your user name, and if you want to promote yourself, you could include “Tweets in Spanish, English and German”.

Lastly, you should not forget about the other important type of social media; LinkedIn. Besides making sure that you have completed your profile – you should also list the languages you speak, honestly. LinkedIn allows you to choose your level of language abilities and it is recommended to select these honestly as you may get tested.