Each CV is scrutinised, language and other skills are put to the test and there are background checks into the candidate's experience and competence.

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But in the other, the labor demand for jobs with language skills increases as a result of more immigration, which in turn increases wages.

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Even those who remained in the fields due to lack of language skills, little education or other barriers still benefited, because they were able to claim unemployment insurance and other benefits when farm work dried up for the season.

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Call-centres are rather better placed, as central Europe's language skills give it a big advantage over most other locations.

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Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.

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And they can teach courses in languages other than English, allowing us to provide content to students who have little or no English language skills.

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