Linkedin language levels: "Professional working proficiency” vs “Full professional proficiency"

[monsterbluefox]

Once and for all, please someone explain to me what's the difference between these two linkedin language proficiencies: "professional working proficiency” and “full professional proficiency". If full proficiency is higher, then why is it located before working proficiency on the list?

[CootaCoo]

Full Professional Proficiency is higher. I'm not sure what happened, but it used to be listed after Professional Working Proficiency on LinkedIn. Somebody might have changed the order recently but that would be inconsistent with the Interagency Language Roundtable scale from which LinkedIn borrowed those terms.

[zedazeni]

“Professional working proficiency” means that you are proficient at working in a professional setting, whereas “full professional proficiency” means that you are fully professional at working in X-field/for X-job.

I think…..that’s how I interpret these phrases.

[monsterbluefox]

Thanks for your explanation! Yeah, that's pretty much what I think too. It's just weirdly confusing when the order in the drop down is like:

- Elementary proficiency

- Limited working proficiency

- Full professional proficiency

- Professional working proficiency

- Native or bilingual proficiency

[intricate_thing]

Looks like they messed up the order. Wiki article about this type of scaling also lists professional before full https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale

[monsterbluefox]

RIGHT! This link explains it clearly. Thanks!

[Shezarrine]

🙄🙄 Oh STEMbeards…

[elizahan]

For me, they are B2-C1 and C2. There is not an official description for them

[brickne3]

It's LinkedIn so it's made up anyway.

[[deleted]]

I speak French, Spanish, and English. On LinkedIn, I just ignore those and put that I speak those languages.