March 11, 2004
Street slang makes youths 'unemployable'
According to The Telegraph UK, the proliferation of street slang and text messaging has become so problematic that many youngsters are now "virtually unemployable".
"Gulfram Khan, the chairman of the Conservative Party in Aston, Birmingham, said the language barrier was costing youths jobs.
"This means that they are either not getting jobs or getting the lowest form of menial work," he said. "A lot of them go to interviews and are completely unable to express themselves in that sort of situation. While they may fit in on the streets, in the workplace they stand out like a sore thumb. If you can't speak good English, how can you expect someone to give you a good job?
Business leaders said employing someone who speaks poor English costs firms "time and effort" to bring them up to scratch".
Interesting, this follows an article posted earlier this week on a report claiming that a decline in the overall level of communications skills is occuring in the business world.
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