Language skills
Assessing your own language skills is often not easy. School days may be a long time ago, and some vocabulary might have been forgotten. However, you may also have been able to further develop your language skills through your previous tasks, especially if you were regularly in contact with international clients. To achieve a standardized assessment, we refer to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). It divides language skills into 3 levels and 6 proficiency grades. Please review the table and try to assign your skills to one of the levels. Aim for as realistic an assessment as possible. Overestimating your abilities is just as unhelpful as setting the bar too high or "underselling" yourself.
Basic | A1 | Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and introduce themselves. |
Elementary | A2 | Can communicate in simple and routine tasks and understand sentences and expressions about personal details. |
Intermediate | B1 | Can understand the main points of clear standard input and deal with most travel situations. |
Upper Intermediate | B2 | Can understand the main ideas of complex texts and explain viewpoints on topical issues. |
Advanced | C1 | Can understand a wide range of demanding texts, express themselves fluently, and produce clear, well-structured, detailed texts on complex subjects. |
Proficient | C2 | Can understand virtually everything heard or read and express themselves spontaneously, very fluently, and precisely. |
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