Archive for the ‘Multilingual Recruitment’ Category

August 3rd, 2010

How to Solve Your Temporary Recruitment Problems Permanently

(Plus: English Only Temp Jobs and Multilingual Temp Jobs for candidates AVAILABLE NOW)

“Come in, come in, Chantelle. Take a seat. So good of you to join us.”
Chantelle, 19, is a temp (an unreliable one). Mr Prang, 64, is Chairman of Prang & Prophet Accident Claims in Fulham. They sit across from each other at Prang’s desk.
    “Thanks, Mr Prang. I-”
“On behalf of everyone at Prang & Prophet, I’d just like to say how sorry we all are about the recent death of your Auntie Kat, Chantelle. Please let me offer our sincere condolences.”
    “Thanks ever so much, Mr Prang. I’m touched.”
(A pause as Chantelle rummages in her handbag for a hanky. And then…)
“Do you believe in life after death, Chantelle? If you don’t mind me asking at this difficult time, that is.”
    “Oh blimey, Mr Prang. Well, yeah, I suppose I do. I mean-”
“Splendid, splendid.”
    “Splendid, Mr Prang?”
“Yes, splendid. Because after you rang in yesterday to tell us you would be unable to come into work as you had to attend your Auntie Kat’s funeral, she popped in to see you, to drop off your spare make-up mirror!”
    ”Eh?!”
“YOU’RE A BARE-FACED LYING, FRILLY-KNICKERED FLIMPING FULHAM FRAUD, CHANTELLE!”
    “You what? You can’t say that! I’ve got rights, mate!”
“YOU’RE AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN, GIRL! YOU’RE WORSE THAN THAT BEARDED BULGARIAN GIRL THEY SENT US LAST MONTH. THE ONE WHO THOUGHT A SPREADSHEET WAS SOMETHING PEOPLE TOOK CAMPING!”

Steady on, Prang, old chap. Chantelle’s only on unpaid work experience for the fortnight!

With Chantelle now hotfooting it to the Citizens Advice Bureau, Prang needs to find another temp, and fast. But where to find a reliable, highly-skilled temp at such short notice?

There is, of course, only one answer…

Appointments Bi-Language Temps Must Have ‘The Right Stuff’
All temps registered with Appointments Bi-Language have to pass a stringent registration process and meet a certain set of criteria before we even consider adding them to our database of talented professionals.

After pre-screening candidates over the phone, and before inviting them for a one-to-one interview with one of our experienced bi-lingual consultants, we carry out:

1. Passport checks
2. Working Holiday Visa checks and monitoring (candidates will only be registered if they are legally allowed to work and reside in the UK)
3. Reference checks (as well as validity of testimonials)
4. Criminal record checks, and
5. CCJ checks (when required)

Proficiency Tests for Temps
At interview, as well as asking candidates to complete skills tests (proficiency in speaking different languages, IT skills, numeracy, etc.), we look to see if the candidate is a motivated individual. We ask them about their relevant work experience to date, and about their long term aims.

By turning to Appointments Bi-Language’s Temporary Recruitment Division, you are establishing a working relationship with an award-winning bilingual and multilingual recruitment agency who is the market leader. With us taking care of all your temporary recruitment needs, you can relax, safe in the knowledge that all your temping requirements are always fully taken care of. This removes the headache of searching for the right temporary staff (only to be let down time and time again), and will allow you to concentrate on other aspects of running your business.

Need a Temp Today? Simply Get in Touch
Getting the right temp for your business is only a phone call or an e-mail away. And if you are a candidate seeking work as a temp, if you’ve got all the attributes we’re looking for, we can have you fixed up in no time with a job you’ll enjoy.

Appointments Bi-Language’s Temporary Recruitment Division – Temping without accidents!

For further information, complete our contact form or call 020 7836 7878 today.

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Categories: English Language-Only Jobs, English Language-Only Recruitment, Multilingual Recruitment, Temporary Recruitment

May 4th, 2010

Dreaming of a Great Bilingual PA Job in London? No Problem, But Please Remember to Write Home Sometimes!

Bilingual PA Jobs in London – The Best Choice Available

One of our successful bilingual PA job applicants was so thrilled to land her dream job working for a leading London-based international publisher, her life took on a weekly cycle of work, socialising with colleagues, and sleeping. She couldn’t wait to go to work each day. This continued for many years. So long, in fact, that her folks back home in the remote Siberian village of Can’t-find-it-on-the-map-ovich thought she had forgotten all about them. Why? Because she only ever wrote to them once.

Her parents reply: ‘Our darling daughter. We were thrilled to get your first letter from Britain, and were so looking forward to your next one. The whole village was. We can only think that Stalin must have personally intercepted it? Your loving parents xxx’

Time to hook up Can’t-find-it-on-the-map-ovich with a complementary Webcam, do you think?

It’s the least we could do.

An Exciting and Well-Paid Bilingual PA Job in a Fascinating City

Forget New York, Paris, Milan, Tokyo or Sidcup, London is where it’s at. Where what’s at? EVERYTHING:

- Tranquil parks and beautiful open spaces;

- Shopping heaven in Convent Garden, Oxford Street, Bond Street and the incomparable King’s Road;

- Countless attractions, such as The London Eye, art galleries, museums, historic sites, and of course the Royal residencies;

- Fine restaurants (offering every type of cuisine), quaint tea shops,  atmospheric cafes and a lively bar scene;

- World-class theatres, live music venues, and sports arenas.

Turning to Appointments Bi-Language for a bilingual PA job or multilingual PA job in London means you get to enjoy all that, by landing a job like these:

TITLE: German Speaking Bilingual PA SALARY: £32,000 + benefits LOCATION: Central London – West End COMPANY: A successful, specialist finance company operating within investment

TITLE: Russian and Turkish PA SALARY: £32,000 LOCATION: Central London – West End COMPANY: A leading firm of restaurants and hotels

TITLE: Italian and French Speaking PA SALARY: £45,000 LOCATION: Central London – West End COMPANY: Leading firm based in the heart of the West End. CEO is an extremely busy individual with a plethora of business interests

Get in Touch About Bilingual PA Jobs in London TODAY (Before someone else does!)

Appointments Bi-Language has a fine track record of matching the right candidate with the right client. If you are a bilingual or multilingual PA seeking a new challenge, we can help you find satisfying employment working for a leading company in one of the world’s most vibrant cities.

Now if that’s not something to write home about, what is?!

Get in touch

E-mail address for Candidates - info@appointmentsbilanguage.co.uk

E-mail address for Clients - james@appointmentsbilanguage.co.uk

Categories: Bilingual PA Jobs, Multilingual PA Jobs, Multilingual Recruitment

April 2nd, 2010

Multilingual Graduates, Let Us Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse

University Multilingual Recruitment – Great Jobs for Graduates Available NOW

In the old days, before 8-year-olds had mobile phones, and when you could make off-the-cuff remarks like ‘village idiot’ or ‘fat chance’ without half-a-dozen irate focus groups turning up, only one person in the town got to go to university.

How times have changed…

With more young people worldwide taking university courses than ever before, this has created some, er, interesting new degree course options, including:

1. A degree in Coronation Street

2. A degree in Puppetry

3. A degree in Golf Turf Management

4. A degree in Punk Rock

And (wait for it!)

5. A degree in The History of Organised Crime (”Hear this, dooshbag. Either flunk the exam and let our nephew Tony Junior come top, or your Momma’s gonna be sleeping with the fishes. Kapish?”)

It sort of gives you hope, doesn’t it?!

But hang on. Let’s be fair about this…

What Kind of Degree Have You Got?

A Languages degree? A degree in Oriental and African Studies? A degree in European Business Studies? Something equally useful?

Great!

Check these jobs out:

TITLE: Bilingual Dutch-English Graduate Trainee Sales Support Administrator. SALARY: £15000-£18000 + performance-related bonus. LOCATION: Hertfordshire. THE COMPANY: A small but prestigious firm of management consultants involved in a long-term project working with the Dutch medical authorities.

TITLE: Graduate Trainee Sales Executive. SALARY: £18000. LOCATION: London. THE COMPANY: Leading publisher of magazines and directories for the exhibition, event and conference industry.

TITLE: Graduate Trainee Researcher with Fluent Japanese. SALARY: £25,000 pa + excellent benefits. LOCATION: London. THE COMPANY: Global market research company with branches throughout the world and employing well over 400 staff in London alone.

Interested? Get in Touch!

At Appointments Bi-Language we have both English-speaking and multilingual job vacancies. Please browse our latest job vacancies page, or search our job vacancies by language or job type.

If a vacancy interests you, then get your smart interview suit out, polish your best shoes until they shine like mirrors, print off your CV, and then get in touch with us today. Because if you don’t, another graduate will. And wouldn’t that be an (organised) crime?

E-mail address for Candidates – info@appointmentsbilanguage.co.uk

E-mail address for Clients – james@appointmentsbilanguage.co.uk

Categories: Jobs for Graduates, Multilingual Recruitment, University Multilingual Recruitment

March 5th, 2010

How an 86-year-old Language Tutor stopped the Japanese Bullet Train with her bare hands

It’s true! Last November, 86-year-old multilingual language tutor Mrs. Suki Suzuki Honda Kawasaki of Fukuoka hit the headlines worldwide. She’d achieved something no other person in history had managed to do: bring the Shinkansen Bullet Train in Japan (en route from Tokyo to Osaka at an astonishing 361 miles-per-hour) to a sudden screeching halt after almost ripping the emergency stop cord from its casing.

A Language Tutor on a Mission

As well as permanently deafening hundreds of local birds and other wildlife, Mrs. Kawasaki caused injuries to 226 passengers, including: 78 broken necks, 62 dislocated limbs, 56 cases of whiplash, and a truly horrific eye injury in carriage 16 where a nun’s false teeth flew out and lodged in the eye-socket of popular Yamagata burger bar owner Hirohito ‘that’s one in the eye for McDonald’s’ Nagasaki.

Mrs. Kawasaki’s motive for her actions?

In carriage 11, whilst surfing the Internet on her laptop looking for a well-paid and exciting language tutoring job in London, Mrs. Kawasaki suddenly came across the Appointments Bi-Language website and was astonished by the language tutoring opportunities available there.

Within 36 hours of pulling that emergency cord, Mrs. Kawasaki dramatically appeared outside our London office, enthusiastically smiling, immaculate in a business suit, CV in hand, and waiting eagerly for one of our friendly and dedicated staff members to open up.

Was she hired on the spot?

Not quite. Why? Because determination and enthusiasm is great, but when it comes to hiring language tutors of the highest calibre, Appointments Bi-Language look for more than that from applicants, much more…

A Language Tutor for Just About EVERY Language

Appointments Bi-Language increasingly supplies freelance and permanent language tutors to companies throughout the UK.

We cover over 300 languages including teachers of Mandarin and Korean, to the more obvious European languages.

All our language tutors are experienced, qualified, and to mother-tongue standard, and are only selected for employment after going through a rigorous screening process which includes:

1. Face-to-face interviews

2. Checking of all work-related documents

3. Education qualification checks

4. Reference checks and previous employment verification

First-Class Language Tutors Out There, Get in Touch!

If you think you’ve got what it takes to be a language tutor with Appointments Bi-Language, and you are happy to teach small business groups and/or high level individuals seeking to improve their language skills, then please get in touch. Mrs. Kawasaki did, and was successful in her application, but, sadly, she was forced to return to Fukuoka in mid-January after consistently complaining to clients that the London Underground trains were ‘too slow, too slow’.

How did we react to this intolerable behaviour?

We gave her the bullet!

Email address - Candidates

To apply for vacancies, or for further information about appointments -

info@appointmentsbilanguage.co.uk

Email address – Clients

For further information about our services, or to contact us about a vacancy -

james@appointmentsbilanguage.co.uk

Categories: Language Tutors, Multilingual Recruitment

October 5th, 2009

How to Find the Perfect Bilingual Secretary or Salesperson, Without Even Looking!

Which one of these ancient proverbs captures your imagination the most?

‘No wind, no waves.’

‘Steal a bell with one’s ears covered.’

‘You cannot push a cow’s head down unless it is drinking by its own will.’

‘Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s earlobe.’

And (wait for it…)

‘When it comes to finding the right bilingual secretary or salesperson, leave the entire process of advertising for, screening, interviewing and testing candidates to an expert, and end up recruiting the cream of the crop!’

It’s true. There IS another way…

Whether you are an investment bank, management consultants, fashion emporium, publisher or other, when it comes to recruiting staff for your business, nothing’s more exciting than finding the perfect person for the job.

Except maybe this…

Underwater hockey before lunch, anyone?

As well as adding a fantastic new member to your team (be that permanently or temporarily), below are just some of the many other benefits outsourcing your staffing needs to Appointments Bi-Language can bring:

  1. Focus upon other aspects of your business safe in the knowledge that all your recruitment requirements are expertly taken care of.
  2. Save time and money on training through letting us do all the background work for you – providing you with a candidate who is already adequately skilled to meet your needs.
  3. Enjoy easier administration, unbiased advice, media knowledge and added expertise.
  4. Undertake any project which involves a bilingual aspect, with 100 per cent confidence that you have the right personnel in place to perform to the highest standards from project procurement through to completion. And last but not least:
  5. Take advantage of all that freed up time by getting in 18 holes before lunch; finally reading that book about Zen meditation you were given 5 Christmases ago; treating your staff to a team-building game of underwater hockey; or even learning to play Lady Gaga’s complete first album on a candy-apple-red kazoo!

The list is ENDLESS.

Interested? Get in touch with James NOW

P.S. Ahhh, the wisdom of those ancient proverbs… And what about thought-provoking African proverbs? Or beautiful French, Spanish and Latin proverbs? Do mystical Arabian proverbs take your breath away? And do you know any proverbs with a language theme that may teach and inspire others?

If so, please get in touch and share them with us!

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Categories: Multilingual Recruitment