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Originally Posted by Stevo26
You're right, it doesn't hurt to learn French or any other foreign language. However, having been employed in the public sector for over 20 years now, I know that getting qualifications in French doesn't mean diddly-squat to most employers, including those in the public sector. If you're what they call 'mother-tongue French', you'll get the plum public-sector jobs, while the Anglos who have learned to speak and write French well by dint of their own efforts and on their own nickel are basically told to go pound salt.
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Interesting. I suppose that the jobs I was looking at, which were marketing-related jobs at head offices in Toronto, wouldn't require native French necessarily; as I understand it, the requirement is there as management employees need to be able to read or understand the French versions of marketing materials for national brands.