How do individuals really use their language skills at work?
CILT, the National Centre for Languages recently completed a research project mapping the functions that professional linguists (teachers, trainers, tutors, translators and interpreters) and intercultural professionals perform as part of their job role. The result of this research is an occupational map for languages and intercultural skills.

The occupational map gives an overview of the various roles requiring languages and intercultural skills and outlines their complexities and the overlaps between them.

It can be used by CILT, other sector skills bodies, qualification developers, careers advisers and professional associations

• To enable contextualisation of training, advice and guidance for the different occupations covered by the map.
• To promote careers with languages and intercultural skills
• As a tool to outline progression routes and careers using languages and intercultural skills.

Download the approved occupational map here (pdf, 782kb).

The map is also being used to inform the development of the latest National Language Standards, due for completion in March 2010.