The Career Hub for International Language Learning (CHILL) provides a central location for multilingual students and those just starting a language to consider professions in which world language skills are particularly valued. Visualizing possible careers and the steps necessary to reach them from the first semester of college helps identify and develop the kinds of tools and experiences that lead naturally to professional success.
We encourage you to explore the many resources in this hub, intended to help make the most of language skills!
Not sure what careers exist for those who speak more than one language? Start with our Language Career Calculator or watch the brief Languages on the Job videos submitted by alumni working in the United States and abroad. Looking for ways to professionalize your current language skills or to learn one of the 14 languages we offer at Montclair? Check out our Montclair Language Resources section.
You’ll also find all kinds of information related to clubs, study abroad and internships where you can practice language while developing career skills. Ready to take a deeper dive into the job sectors that actively recruit students with strong language skills? Investigate the different areas, skills needed, and jobs currently available. Already know the field in which you want to use your language skills? Career Services will help you build a resume and locate the best pre-professional experiences for perfecting your portfolio.
Fourteen Languages Offered at Montclair!
Toolkit for Language Career Paths
Job Sectors That Recruit Language Speakers
Essential Job Skills
What’s Your Language Super Power?
Career Services
Everything from resume advice to job postings
Language Career Calculator
Prefer working in an office, outdoors, overseas?
Free Online Language Placement Test
Not sure what class to take?
About CHILL
The Career Hub for International Language Learning (CHILL) is the brainchild of a team of professors and students from the World Languages and Cultures Department at Montclair State University. We noticed that despite the more than 200 languages and dialects spoken in New Jersey alone, and the great demand for multilingual employees among domestic and international employers, the tools currently available in the United States to help students choose a career based on their interests and skills have generally neglected to include questions about proficiency in a language other than English.
We hope that our Language Career Calculator, in combination with recent alumni descriptions of their jobs and resources for identifying positions in companies that value multilinguals, will encourage students to start thinking early about where they might want to work and how to develop the skills and experiences necessary for landing those jobs.
CHILL was developed with the generous support of an MLA Pathways Step Grant funded by the Mellon Foundation. We thank the numerous colleagues, alumni, students, and professionals inside and outside the University who helped us evaluate needs and offered advice about this platform.
Montclair CHILL Team: Enza Antenos, Elizabeth Emery, Wing Shan Ho, Thomas Herold, Pascale LaFountain, Kathleen Loysen.
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