<p>On another CC thread, Alumother, who works as a software outsourcing manager, stated:</p>
<p>"....we'd hire a US graduate in a flash if he or she spoke Mandarin and wanted to spend some time in Shanghai."</p>
<p>I was wondering if there are other jobs, other than software-related, that people are seeing opening up for U.S. college graduates who are Mandarin-speakers. What with the improving business climate in China and all.</p>
<p>What types of opportunities have you come across?</p>
<p>i've talked with a sports agent and he said if you can speak mandarin, they'd hire you at their firm almost immediately, cuz they need mandarin speakers to help them recruit chinese players to sign... and they can also help with marketing in china too</p>
<p>Tutoring jobs. I didn't even need to know how to write, just speak. </p>
<p>I think nowadays having another language is a necessity, not just necessarily Mandarin.</p>
<p>If you spend the majority of your time in the states another language is not a necessity.</p>
<p>Investment banking and management consulting. Now, you obviously don't need to know Mandarin to get these jobs, but if you were an i-banker in Shangai, who would you rather deal with, someone who only spoke English, or someone you could schmooze with more easily? And there is a lot of demand for this in China.</p>
<p>risk management or any other quantitative function in financial services (i.e. modeling, valuation)</p>
<p>all of those sound AMAZING…do you have any idea how we would go about getting them though??
i want this so bad :P</p>