<p>Do jobs look at that highly?</p>
<p>No. Minor in something useful or at least interesting. How many people do you think are fluent in Spanish? If a company needs a Spanish speaking person, they will hire someone who is a native speaker. You cannot just take a few classes and expect to be hired because of that.</p>
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<p>How exactly do you think speaking Spanish would help you in any field of finance? Seen a lot of job postings for finance that include “Spanish speakers get huge advantage!!!”?</p>
<p>I live in south Florida, and many smaller businesses list the ability to speak Spanish as a requirement for applicants.</p>
<p>^^ And these are jobs that a college graduate with a finance degree would take?</p>
<p>More likely than not any job that would require that would be interacting with customers who do not speak English. Not someone working as an analyst or in any other Finance capacity.</p>
<p>Actually, I have seen postings requiring a knowledge of a certain foreign language, and those postings were from banks, accounting companies, etc. The reason is that some offices and branches have a certain client base which may have a language preference. But again, in this case, employers will hire someone who is proficient/fluent in a certain language. I just do not see how a minor can trump a knowledge of a native speaker. Any rational person understands that.</p>
<p>Absolutely! I’ve worked for a number of firms that love to see foreign language knowledge on their potential employee’s resumes. The ability to speak spanish makes you an extremely valuable employee, especially in the larger (often international) companies. You are able to work with a larger client base. Most people don’t realize how often finance majors actually deal with not only customers, but other companies and organizations. The likelihood of needing to speak to someone who speaks spanish is pretty high. For instance, if you work in credit. Guaranteed, you will be more of an asset to a company if you can speak spanish.</p>
<p>I know a guy who does IB in Hong Kong. When he was looking to shift jobs, most of the bulge brackets refused him because he didn’t know Mandarin well enough(he grew up in China but came to the US at age 10), but he did get into a place eventually largely in part due to his work experience (he did IB at a local boutique in the US and then an elite Boutique in HK) Most of his work is in English, but he does find himself needing Mandarin every so often(and Cantonese if he’s around town)</p>
<p>knowing another language can help, but if you do know it, you NEED to know it.
One of my personal regrets is not knowing another language better.</p>
<p>Contrary to what the first poster said, minoring in Spanish is not a bad idea especially if you’ll be working in a place where the Hispanic community is large.</p>
<p>I do think it is worth considering, however, that minoring or even majoring in Spanish does not guarantee that one will achieve proficiency in the language…</p>
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<p>Really? Because I deal with multiple F500 companies every year and meet dozens of their employees. I have never met a single person who spent anytime speaking Spanish to ANYONE. Your statement that “The likelihood of needing to speak to someone who speaks spanish is pretty high” is just flat out false. Spanish is not even a blip on the radar for languages used in business. The end. </p>
<p>Spanish is useless outside of customer service oriented jobs in certain parts of the company. If you want to impress a multi-national corporation than pick up Russian or Mandarin. Even Portuguese would be better than Spanish.</p>
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<p>This is an entirely different situation. You are talking about speaking Spanish in the US vs. going to another country and working for a foreign company. Of course you should speak another language if you intend to become an ex-pat. It is in no way neccesary to speak a foreign language if you are just working for an American company that does international business. </p>
<p>I went to Eastern Europe this year where one of our largest client’s does business. A vast majority of the people we met spoke English fluently and the ones that didn’t had a LOCAL translator escorting us. </p>
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<p>So, if the OP intends to have a low-level clerk-like job in the southwest, Miami, CA, etc. it would be beneficial? Awesome…this just proves my point. If all you come out of college with is a job where you are dealing with people who do not speak the language of the country they are in than you failed in getting everything you could have out of college.</p>
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<p>You are talking about an extremely small percentage of companies dealing with a niche market. If the OPs goal is to be in Miami or southwest Texas working for some low level bank or accounting firm than by all means, go for it…won’t be hard.</p>
<p>I wouldnt learn spanish as a finance major man.</p>