26 Apr 2023
When applying for a job and asked to send a resume and cover letter, you are basically sending a replica of yourself ahead to speak on your behalf. With that one to two pages of paper, you are being judged on your entire life experiences in a nutshell. The kind of jobs that you’ve held, how many years of education, and the type of education you received. You must write the information to represent you in the best possible light. In the article, I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar: And Here’s Why, Kyle Wiens is adamant that anyone, not just writers who apply for a position at either one of his two companies is given a mandatory grammar test to evaluate that every candidate is in fact master the English rules and grammar, and know how to apply them to their writing because that is the will be the number one deciding factor of whether or not they get hired. He says in the article, “If job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too,” their applications go into the bin.” And “If it takes someone more than 20 years to properly use, it’s, then that’s not a learning curve I am comfortable with.” On one hand, I agree with him that an individual must be able to use grammar properly to secure a position that involves writing. On the other hand, I fail to see the connection between perfect grammar and stocking shelves. Even though he says that he has seen otherwise. He says “I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing – like stocking shelves or labeling parts.” (Kyle Wiens), but I beg to differ.
Immigrants Should Learn To Speak English!
When was the last time you heard that statement? This is America! Speak English! Whether on the streets, at work, on social media, on television, or even in school just about everyone has heard the phrase. America is considered a multi-pot because they are people from so many many nationalities and ethnic backgrounds residing here. While many of them have the ability to speak the English language, others either don’t speak it at all, or speak it with an accent, and there can be a variety of reasons for that gap. Even though there are other elements that allow those individuals to stand out and be themselves, having the choice to speak their own languages to get services is not one of them. In the article, Official American Language Is a Choice, Lavenda Oluoch has some propositions about why everyone whose English is not their primary language should be offered an alternative so that not being able to speak English does not serve as a barrier for them get to achieve certain things. She says that “The real way to enhance the assimilation of immigrants in the US is for US citizens to speak, read and write official business languages that are not English.” One of the few drawbacks of her proposition is that using all 325 languages seems overwhelming. Can you imagine going to use the restroom at an amusement park, and when you finally get there, you see a bunch of signs with different languages on them? I also disagree with her statement that “Immigrants learn English better when government services are also offered in their respective native languages.” For example, there is a certain ethnic group (which I choose not to mention) who from what I notice, don’t really care about speaking English because they are most likely to find an interpreter everywhere they go. Being an immigrant myself, I don’t believe that learning to speak English makes you lose any part of your identity. Therefore, it is in every immigrant’s best interest to learn to speak English because the benefits heavily outweigh the disadvantages.
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