Survey of business sectors hiring linguists and language professionals

The needs analysis of the UPSKILLS project is the foundation for all subsequent project activities. The survey of the business sector(s) hiring linguists and language professionals is the fourth step in the analysis. For this task, we administered surveys to representatives of companies that hire linguists/language specialists. The target group consists of employers from digital and data-intensive sectors, who currently might fail to identify language and linguistics graduates as a target talent pool for their business. This group is additionally expected to benefit from the co-construction and dissemination of a specific job profile with associated competences, skills and knowledge.