I have been learning languages for two decades. If you strive to be the best (in your study group/among your classmates), try to learn your your target language at the level of a native, put in a lot of effort into the language learning process, you are more likely to be a success, land a good job, that requires mastery of a certain language.
Competition would fuel you to do better, work harder, try to achieve more. One other important point is that if you are a recent university graduate and you are looking for a job at a large company, the employer would more likely hire a person who possesses a mastery of certain languages, meaning, speaking it fluently with little to no accent.
