Welcome back to Video Vocab. This is the first of a two-part series on the planning process. In this episode, we’ll focus on the beginning stages of the planning cycle.
Check out VV 07 and VV 08 for more vocabulary related to project management.
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Welcome back Business Skills 360 for the second part of our look at networking skills. In this episode, we’re going to focus on “network maintenance,” or how to make sure your network is healthy, organized, and effective.
You see, passing out business cards is not enough. I can spend all week attending events and talking to people and manage to hand out 200 business cards but still not have a healthy and effective network. To do that, you need to maintain your network. You need to take care of it and reinforce its connections. You need to work your network. Just how can we do that?
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Welcome back to Business Skills 360 – the podcast that looks at the other side of Business English.
Today’s Business Skills 360 lesson is about business networking, and goal-setting for networking events. To get the most out of your networking, you need to go into these events with a clear objective so that you can make good use of the opportunity. We set goals for everything else, so why not networking?
To brush up on your Business English for networking, check out BEP 155 & 156.
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Welcome back to Business Skills 360 – the podcast that looks at the other side of Business English.
This is the fourth and final part in our 360 series on your first job interview. Today we’re going to tackle a few of those really tough questions that interviewers like to ask.
Getting ready. That’s the key. You need to spend time preparing for your interview and crafting good answers to the questions you’re going to face. I’ll go through five common difficult questions today and you can prepare your answers.
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Welcome back to Business English Pod for this business English lesson, the last of a three-part series on English Interviews for your first job.
When you’re in an interview in English, everything is focused on you – your education, your skills, and the qualities that make you the best candidate for the job. But it’s also important for you to focus on the company you’re interviewing with. After all, you’re interviewing for more than a job. You’re interviewing for a spot on the company team. Employers want to know how you’ll fit in with the office culture and see if your values are consistent with theirs.
In this episode, we’ll talk about ways to show you’ve researched the company. We’ll also cover language to show you’re a good fit and for discussing your long-term career goals. Finally, we’ll look at ways the company might explain next steps in the hiring process.
Once again, we’ll join Owen, who is interviewing for a test engineer position at a company called IBH. He’s in the middle of a panel interview with Erica and Cindy, two HR reps, and George, who’s the head of engineering. Today, the interview wraps up.
Listening Questions
1. Why is Owen interested in working for IBH?
2. What does Owen say about collaborative spirit?
3. What is one of Owen’s long-term career objectives?
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