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English at Work: Job Interviews
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- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Preparing for the job interview
- How you should prepare for a job interview
- Find out about companies
- Overcome nerves
- Decide which clothes to wear
- Vocabulary to discuss your hard and soft skills
- Answering questions using the STAR technique
Week 2: Answering job interview questions
- Avoiding mistakes during the interview
- Tips to help you answer questions effectively and confidently
- Understanding the importance of non-verbal communication during interviews
- The importance of intonation.
Week 3: Responding to challenging job interview questions
- Answering those challenging interview questions
- Being able to stand out during interviews
- Providing diplomatic answers to questions you would prefer had not been asked and giving yourself time to come up with an answer
- Stressing key words in your replies
Week 4: Closing the job interview effectively, post interview and online interviews
- Considering the questions that you, the interviewee should ask, or not ask
- Deciding what you should do, or not do at the end of the interview, and after the interview
- Discovering how online interviews are similar to and different from face to face interviews
Prerequisite
Instructors
Jessica Xia
English Language Instructor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bee Dy
English Language Instructor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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