If you're not doing a degree that goes to a specified job, i.e Medicine or Dentistry, then its worth getting varied work experience (if you can) in that field. i.e if you do a language, you could get work experience
- shadowing an interpreter
- a foreign speaking section of a call centre
- a specific language speaking restaurant (some restaurants only hire people who can speak italian, spanish etc for their italian or spanish restaurant)
- a foreign speaking newspaper or newsletter
- experience writing for a section on a website
- If you can, go to a relevant speaking country and do a summer course there in the language (my friend is currently in Italy for the year and she spent a term working for an italian artist, a term at an italian university, and on the side she joined an exchange program where she would meet an italian person who wanted to improve their english and she wanted to improve her italian)
- experience assisting language lessons in a school
- private tutoring of a language
The main point I'm trying to make is, if you want to do a specific thing i.e being an interpreter, don't just go for experience in that specific area, get experience in the wider sense, it will show greater initiative, and that you really love the language you can speak and want it to be a part of your life.