WORKING IN ITALY: a necessary skill but ignored by most…

• Italian language: a perfect stranger?
• But do you need the Italian language to work in Italy?
• How to solve the problem?
• Moral of the story?
• Extra (not to be missed!)

In this article I tell you about how (incredibly) a skill is ignored when it comes to working in Italy.

Italian language: a perfect stranger?

I’m talking about the main language used in Italy: Italian :)
It seems strange but, by now, it is also becoming a skill to know how to write well in one’s mother tongue: I had already addressed the problem in this article.
Now I go into the details of the world of work.

But do you need the Italian language working in Italy?

Observing (not just looking or seeing) what happens around us, we notice that in many job positions, both in the public and in the private, some (not to say many) employees who work in contact with people (public) or, simply , carry out a job including writing texts (of any kind and nature) that have major gaps with the mother tongue. Gaps that can be both written and oral. Obviously, they emerge more when a document is involved.

How to solve the problem?

The solution is simple and trivial: insert the compulsory test of the level of knowledge of the Italian language both for the oral part but, above all, for the written one.
Are we so sure that most of the people deemed suitable for native Italian speakers pass the test? What if it were retroactive, that is, to the people who already have the job and not just to those who are looking? There could be a very interesting new effect: the creation of new jobs…

Moral of the story?

It’s useless to ask aspiring workers (for certain positions) for thousands of skills when that of the mother tongue, perhaps the most important, is lacking (even and above all among those who are already hired).

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