Can Your Accent Impact Employability?

There are a lot of accents in Britain, and everyone has different attitudes toward each one. What are these attitudes, and what impact do they have on employment?

Does your accent have an impact on your employability?

Depending on how strong or weak your accent is, research has shown that it can determine whether you’re more or less employable to an employer compared to other candidates. Facilities management company DCS Multiserve has provided us with this research.

A report from a law firm stated that eight out of ten employers have openly admitted to being discriminative to a candidate in the interview stages of recruitment based on their accent, which is something that they can’t necessarily change.

“Sound less Cumbrian!” one employer said to a teacher who was, in fact, from Cumbria. The same report also noted that a school in the West Midlands recently banned pupils from speaking regional slang to improve their chances of getting a job.

You might be more employable…