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Do you think those that do not have an accent get the best jobs in the corporate world? So if two candidates, both habesha but one had a slight accent and the other did not, came for the same job and both were GREAT for the job, who is more likely to get the job?
It is fairly obvious that the habesha guy who does not have an accent would get the job. Do you think this is fair? If this was your company and you had to employ ONE person who would you employ and why (remember guys they both have the same merits, the only difference is their accents)?
It's not fair, but this is probably true, especially if the job involves public relations. I guess I'm lucky in this regard, cuz I can speak English, Amharic and French pretty much without an accent.
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Do you think those that do not have an accent get the best jobs in the corporate world? So if two candidates, both habesha but one had a slight accent and the other did not, came for the same job and both were GREAT for the job, who is more likely to get the job?
It is fairly obvious that the habesha guy who does not have an accent would get the job. Do you think this is fair? If this was your company and you had to employ ONE person who would you employ and why (remember guys they both have the same merits, the only difference is their accents)?
It's not fair, but this is probably true, especially if the job involves public relations. I guess I'm lucky in this regard, cuz I can speak English, Amharic and French pretty much without an accent.
There are some jobs where an accent shouldn't matter, but if it's a field where it's imperative that nothing gets lost in translation, it would be a better professional choice not to hire the the person with the accent. For example, I assist in teaching a self-contained Special Education class. The students in this class are very far behind in skill level according to the grades that they're in, so it would be in their best interest to have a teacher who speaks perfect English. However, for most of the school year, the kids had a teacher from Peru who was very well educated, but who's English was very heavily accented, which doesn't help when a child wants to know how to properly pronounce a word that he can't read, nor does it help when the teacher is reading a text out loud to the students, or when they want to listen to the words that she's calling out during the Spelling test. If she doesn't pronounce the word correctly, then in all fairness, can we really blame the children for getting the word wrong? I think that this is the perfect example of how choosing the person with the better English skills isn't discriminatory, it's just the right thing to do.
Once again habeshagyrl has beat me to the mark. This is exactly true, but it's hard to say w such little info about the job in question. At the end of the day companies have to do what's best for them, and it's not necessarily out of predjudice.
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Do you think those that do not have an accent get the best jobs in the corporate world? So if two candidates, both habesha but one had a slight accent and the other did not, came for the same job and both were GREAT for the job, who is more likely to get the job?
It is fairly obvious that the habesha guy who does not have an accent would get the job. Do you think this is fair? If this was your company and you had to employ ONE person who would you employ and why (remember guys they both have the same merits, the only difference is their accents)?
P, If you have an accent in America that surely can hinder your ability to get certain jobs or even hinder you while you are in that job. I use to work for a doctor whose last name is Ahmed. Because of his last name...new patients didn't want him, because they thought he would have an accent and they weren't sure if there would be a communication problem. Fortunately, he spoke very good English. But just the sound of a "foreign" name can hinder you in the work world.
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