Examples of Jobs that require German

American students have found German to be an especially useful language for expanding career opportunities. Teaching, translation and related areas (e.g., publishing, media, marketing) offer the most direct application of German language skills. Who speaks German? Foreign Service officers, journalists, Montessori teachers, professors, politicians, Peace Corps volunteers, hotel management staff, bankers, research chemists, software engineers, musicians, flight attendants and corporate lawyers do. Combining language skills and cultural knowledge with other training can provide a variety of possibilities for students of German. These include various fields of government service, business and banking, communications, science and technology, music and fine arts, travel and tourism and many others. German can take you anywhere!