Listing “fluent in Spanish” when you took two years of it is a lie someone will test in Spanish.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Exaggerations on paper have a habit of turning into conversations. A claim like that gets you through the first filter and straight into a room where somebody switches language and waits, and that moment is far worse than the honest version would ever have been. Written confidence is only useful if the thing behind it exists.

Describe what you can actually do, specifically: two years of classes, can hold a slow conversation, comfortable reading. Specific and true reads as more credible than a big word anyway. If you want the stronger claim, go and earn it this year.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which skill have you rounded up when describing yourself?

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