Job market for bilingual (Chinese) speakers in Sacramento?? (Stockton: sales, college)

[h6972]

I'm relocating to Sacramento Area soon, and my boyfriend, who speaks Chinese Mandarin, has been working in the financial industry in LA for about 2 years. He has a college degree in finance and has many years of sales experience. Is it going to be hard for him to find a job in Sacramento that needs his language skills?

[zen_klown]

He should have no problem finding work in Sacramento because of his sales and finance background.

In the Sacramento region a large part of the Vietnamese community is actually ethnic Chinese folks who faced discrimination in Vietnam for being business owners in Vietnam when Vietnam was going communist. This is the group that is largely responsible for opening up all of the shops and restaurants on Stockton Blvd. These stores tend to offer a mixture of Vietnamese and Chinese foods and products. The historic Chinese community in Northern California that goes back to building the levees and railroad in northern California were mostly Cantonese speakers. Of the US born ethnic Chinese in the area, when they still speak the mother tongue, often its Cantonese. But patterns of immigration are changing in Sacramento. The most recent waive of Chinese immigrants are speaking Mandarin especially in the last 25 years.

So should you have any problems finding ethnic foods and goods in Sacramento? No. Can you find a community of Mandarin speakers in Sacramento? Yes. Can you support yourself catering exclusively to Mandarin speakers in Sacramento? Probably, but it would help tremendously if in addition to Mandarin you could speak either English, Vietnamese or Cantonese.

[h6972]

Wow! thank you so much!! very clear and specific! ^__^

[mr bolo]

Chinese Mandarin language is not common in Sacramento, I would say there are more Southeast asians than Northeast asians.

and the Southeast asians that are ethnic Chinese, usually speak cantonese or Hong Kong dialect