Friday, October 08, 2004

Signs of London Today

Here's a lovely example of a Job advertised on the UK Government's expensive yet crappy official website for jobs. I think it's a lovely indication to USA persons that London, England is not the land of Mary Poppins or Hugh Grant. (Ilford is in London, in Zone 4 of the six concentric zones that demarcate the Public Transport Fare system of London, but is officially still part of the county of Essex). There are rather a lot of people who are recently arrived native speakers of these languages.

Job Title TECHNICAL ASSISTANT-LINGUIST/PROGRAMMER QIB/17239
Location ILFORD, ESSEX
Hours 40 PER WEEK, DAYS AND HOURS TO BE AGREED
Wage £1,200-£1,550 PER MONTH
Duration TEMPORARY

Must have 3 years or more experience in software development or educated to HND, or
equivalent, standard and two of the following languages:- Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian,
Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian
together with good English, together with MS Office skills for preparation
of test documentation. Your role will be developing stemming rules and noise
word lists for the languages of the countries that have recently joined the
EU, testing and develop existing products and research into other language
products.


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