Now Hiring: The CIA

Uncle Sam wants you! Particularly if you learned Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Korean, Pashtu, Persian, Russian or Urdu as a child, and are still fluent. Not only is the CIA hiring, but other foreign service and state divisions are also desperate for recruits who are college graduates and speak second languages fluently.

The shortage of these types of candidates has driven the government to develop a flagship program for finding the most promising college students and putting them through intensive language learning. It seems they haven't been able to find enough Americans these days who learned fluent Spanish, French or German in high school, let alone the non-Latin based languages mentioned above.