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Poor English denies many jobs, promotion - director
By Rosemary Mirondo
11th May 2010
Many Tanzanians are not offered senior positions in their professions despite having same qualifications as foreigners because they lack skills of expressing themselves during interviews, it has been learnt.
The remarks were made recently by See Vee Director Gloria Jacobs at an interview with The Guardian in Dar es Salaam.
She said that many Tanzanians failed to get employment because they relied on people they knew to get them jobs instead of using their skills to impress their interviewers.
She said that according to a research she conducted recently, some of the graduates were going without jobs because they lacked good expression skills.
Jacob stressed that many firms were owned by foreign investors who targeted people with good command of English in managerial positions.
She noted that despite many Tanzanians being highly educated; quite a number of them did not have good commands of the English language, thereby failing to express themselves well during interviews.
Many lack good command of English to express themselves or during presentations, thus losing the opportunities to attain big positions in their careers, she said.
Elaborating, she said that the education given was not meant to prepare people to speak perfect English, but to pass exams. She added that many students did not practice to speak English at home or in school compounds.
Jacob plans to work with university graduates to help them in a number of areas including understanding how to express themselves, write curriculum vitae and cover letters.
She said that she also planned to help them learn how to approach their employers and how to answer psychological questions that looked easy but needed attentive answers.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
By Rosemary Mirondo
11th May 2010
Many Tanzanians are not offered senior positions in their professions despite having same qualifications as foreigners because they lack skills of expressing themselves during interviews, it has been learnt.
The remarks were made recently by See Vee Director Gloria Jacobs at an interview with The Guardian in Dar es Salaam.
She said that many Tanzanians failed to get employment because they relied on people they knew to get them jobs instead of using their skills to impress their interviewers.
She said that according to a research she conducted recently, some of the graduates were going without jobs because they lacked good expression skills.
Jacob stressed that many firms were owned by foreign investors who targeted people with good command of English in managerial positions.
She noted that despite many Tanzanians being highly educated; quite a number of them did not have good commands of the English language, thereby failing to express themselves well during interviews.
Many lack good command of English to express themselves or during presentations, thus losing the opportunities to attain big positions in their careers, she said.
Elaborating, she said that the education given was not meant to prepare people to speak perfect English, but to pass exams. She added that many students did not practice to speak English at home or in school compounds.
Jacob plans to work with university graduates to help them in a number of areas including understanding how to express themselves, write curriculum vitae and cover letters.
She said that she also planned to help them learn how to approach their employers and how to answer psychological questions that looked easy but needed attentive answers.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN