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Мы много собеседуем... и вот одна мелочь (точнее, предлог), в которой часто делают ошибки:

WORK IN, AT, FOR or ON

📌TO WORK + IN

✔️You work in a field:

I hope to work in marketing when I’m older

✔️You also work in some environment or a part of a company:

You should work in our Berlin headquarters.

📌TO WORK + FOR

✔️You work for a specific employer (a person or a company):

I understand you work for Adam Black.

She works for a big outsourcing company.


I am self-employed, so I work for myself.

✔️A person or a thing can work for a reason or purpose:

I am happy to work for the success of the company.

Продолжение завтра. Stay tuned! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
#interview_winner
Продолжаем?

📌TO WORK + AT

✔️You work at a specific location:

I work at Genesis

He was working at his desk


✔️We can also say that something works at some level:

The same formula works at the project level as well as the organizational level.

✔️If you work at something, you try hard to develop or improve it:

I’ve spent three hours working at this problem.

❗️Note that you can also work on something (= to spend time producing or improving something):

Jason and Mike decided to work on refactoring recent solutions.
#interview_winner
💪Простые слова, которые можно использовать, говоря об опыте:

📌considerable

✔️You need to gain/get considerable experience to work as a Solution architect.

📌long

✔️We have long experience of dealing with such problems.

📌wide

✔️She has wide experience in teaching Front-end.

📌valuable (= useful)

✔️That was a tough project, but I got valuable experience for my next job

📌invaluable (= extremely useful)

✔️Working here gives these interns invaluable experience.

Продолжение в следующем посте⬇️⬇️⬇️
#interview_winner
И ещё немного об опыте

📌relevant

✔️Both candidates for the director of engineering position were short of relevant experience.

📌first-hand (= gained by doing something yourself)

✔️Our PM has first-hand experience of Python programming.

📌hands-on (=practical)

✔️Don’t underestimate the importance of hands-on experience.
#interview_winner
🕺WEBINAR: Managing Project Communication⁣⁣
JUNE 30 19:00⁣⁣
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📌Проектная коммуникация часто оказывается не такой уж легкой. Есть много людей, с которыми мы должны общаться с самого начала до внедрения и оценки - и все они хотят, чтобы с ними общались по-разному!

📌На вебинаре мы обсудим:

✔️важность коммуникации для успеха проекта
✔️влияние культурных различий
✔️best practices для планирования коммуникации.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Спикерка: Марина Губко, ICA-ATF, SFC, Project Specialist в Apriorit, преподавательница и спикерка в T-English, 3+ лет опыта в ИТ. Опыт в Quality Assurance, Business Development, Customer Success Management.⁣

Участие бесплатное, но по предварительной регистрации: shorturl.at/adns4
🔥🔥🔥Решили повторить воркшоп по прохождению интервью на английском.

Зачем вам это:

📌получить формулу ответов на ситуационные вопросы
📌понять, как можно подготовиться к интервью и идти на него спокойным и уверенным
📌узнать, какую грамматику и лексику стоит повторить, чтобы не задумываться над конструкциями, а отвечать на вопросы

Спикерка: Преподаватель курса Английский для интервью и других курсов T-English – Марьянна. 6 лет опыта работы в ИТ-рекрутменте + 8 лет опыта работы преподавателем английского для ИТ = умение подготовить студента к интервью любой сложности.

Когда: завтра, 2 июля, в 20 00

Участие (активное) бесплатное, по предварительной регистрации
🕺Провели вебинар на тему «Managing project communication”. Мы как старательные ученики сделали конспект. Делимся⬇️

1️⃣Main rules of communication with the team:

👂listen intently
🧠think clearly
🗣discuss openly
🙏develop empathy
👥respond quickly to needs

2️⃣You should try to avoid over-communicating to stakeholders. Consider the following questions:

📌Who needs to know what information?
📌How often must the information be communicated/shared?
📌By what means will information be communicated/shared?

Продолжение в следующем посте⬇️
#PM_yourself
И ещё пару моментов по следам вебинара Managing project communication:

3️⃣ Communication plan is a powerful tool that can help you organize communication on the project. It should answer the following questions:

📌Who will you communicate with?
📌What will be communicated? (e.g. status report)
📌How often will you communicate? (e.g. monthly)
📌How will you communicate? (e.g. at the leadership meetings, by email, etc.)

4️⃣ If you lead a meeting, keep the following rules in mind:

📌keep the number of topics to be discussed in one meeting at a minimum, be aware of information overload
📌use visuals and charts
📌use simple terminology - avoid jargon, slang and terms that may not be universally understood
📌speak clearly and ask specific questions rather than “yes”, “no”, “do you understand?”
📌be aware of non-verbal cues from stakeholders that may indicate a lack of understanding
#PM_yourself
🧑‍💻На прошлой неделе мы ещё и воркшоп провели. Наша преподавательница, которая работает в международном ИТ-рекрутинге, рассказала, как подготовиться к ситуационным вопросам на интервью. 📌📌📌Bullet points воркшопа:

📌Situational questions are designed to highlight your true strengths, weaknesses and characteristics without directly asking you what they are. Such questions can start with, for example:

Tell me how you approached a situation where...

📌You can use STAR technique to answer such a question:
⭐️Situation
⭐️Task
⭐️Approach
⭐️Result

📌If you are asked a situational interview question that you don’t know how to answer because you’ve never been in such a situation, you can say:

I’ve never found myself in such a situation. If I had such a situation, I would... (and continue with using second conditional)

Это не все. Завтра продолжим, а пока вы можете посмотреть запись воркшопа по ссылке
📌You can prepare for your next situational interview by coming up with a few examples of:

✔️challenges
✔️mistakes/failures
✔️conclusions (what you’ve done differently)
✔️accomplishments
✔️conflicts
✔️drive
✔️leadership

using STAR technique

📌You can also check a job description and come up with a story for when you’ve previously performed each skill listed in your job ad
#interview_winner
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​​A developer proposes, a tester disposes. Happy Tester's Day!
Mind the prepositions!

📌Navigate to ... page

📌Hover the mouse cursor over ...

📌Click (on) ... button

📌Right/left-click the ... button

📌Type ... in the ... dialogue box/field

📌Fill in the field ...

📌Scroll down to ...

📌On the keyboard ...

📌At the top/bottom of the page ...
Некоторые наши студенты ищут пути, как выйти из IT. Но все еще много специалистов, которые хотят войти в ИТ.

Услышали такой вопрос:

«I have some PM experience in logistics. What should I put an emphasis on at the interview for a position of PM in an IT company?”

📌Our answer- transferable skills!

You should think of situations and experience when you managed to show:

📌flexibility+client-orientation

📌organizational/planning skills

📌team working skills

📌troubleshooting

📌ability to navigate and manage multiple projects with conflicting deadlines and goals

Кстати, приготовили краткосрочный курс английского для свитчеров в мини-группе. Скоро анонсируем 📣📣📣
👥Сложно переоценить важность фидбека. Мы даем и получаем фидбек от студентов и преподавателей, и знаем, каким сложным может быть коммуникация в команде или компании без культуры фидбека. Мы руководствуемся feedback-giving rules by Brené Brown:

📍I know you I am ready to give feedback when:

📌I'm ready to sit next to you rather than across from you;

📌I'm ready to put the problem in front of us rather than between us;

📌I'm ready to listen, ask questions, and accept that I may not fully understand the issue;

📌I want to acknowledge what you do well instead of picking apart your mistakes;

📌I'm willing to own my part;

📌I can talk about how resolving these challenges will lead to your growth and opportunity

#PM_yourself
Порция linking and transition phrases в IT-контексте:

📌In a nutshell means in short

In a nutshell, the user research phase is when you scope out the project

📌
Namely means for example

We are interested in your ability to build and maintain test documentation (namely checklists, test cases, bug report, etc)

📌By and large means in general

By and large, we are happy with these new Azure solutions

📌
At the end of the day means ultimately, eventually

What matters at the end of the day is a valuable final product delivered on time
#TEnglish_word_of_the_day
📌Back-channeling is a term that describes a broad range of behaviors that all share in
common not being direct or upfront with people.

📌Back-channeling includes sharing our reactions or opinions with people before or after a meeting, rather than sharing them in the meeting

📌Other terms for back-channeling include the meeting after the meeting or “the dirty yes” (where I say “yes” to your face and then “no” behind your back
#PM_yourself
Вас не поняли? Попробуйте так:

📌The reason for the late start to the meeting was because of today’s tube strike.

📌One possible explanation/reason for the fall in profits could be the weakness of sterling against the US dollar.

📌Let me explain, if we were to implement the changes too soon, we’d have a huge problem on our hands.

📌What I mean is, I don’t think we’ll get the necessary funding this year.

📌This has been a much-needed wake-up call. In other words, it’s been a warning that was needed.

📌Let me put it/this another way, if we don’t accept their proposals now, they’ll go somewhere else/elsewhere.

📌The thing is, there’s no simple explanation to what went wrong.
#PM_yourself
👥Присоединяйся к нашему Speaking club!

Наш преподаватель Dwayne о себе: "Originally from sunny South Africa, I have traveled the world and taught many individuals from different countries. I worked as a Wine Merchant and Sommelier just outside Cape Town. Then, I built my own company in the Tech and Home automation/digitalization industry.
I also worked in Miami as an Art Gallery Director,
where I was able to teach and train multiple up-and-coming individuals. I helped develop and mentor their business skill and public speaking skills. Helping others find their way on the path to success is what drives me, and I look forward to sharing more with you".

Когда:
📌5/10 at 11am 
Level: B1-B1+ 

📌7/10 at 11 am 
Level: A2-A2+

📌8/10, at 7 30pm 
Level: B2-B2+

Регистрация: перейдите по ссылке⬇️
Группы не более 6 участников. Приглашение с ссылкой на Zoom-встречу вы получите за день до занятия в случае оплаты (ссылка на оплату придет на почту после регистрации)

Стоимость: $5 (для студентов T-English бесплатно)

Остались вопросы? Пишите:
📩t.english4it@gmail.com
🖌Skype: t.english4it
💁Soft skills, hard skills... а теперь мы еще говорим о hybrid skills!

Тренд hybrid skills диктуется следующими направлениями:

📌Big Data and Analytics
📌Intersection of Design and Development
📌Sales and Customer Service
📌Digital Technologies

Гибридные навыки – это комбинация навыков, которые никогда раньше не нужны были для единой роли (например, использование Big Data алгоритмов в маркетинге). Примеры гибридных ролей в компании: технические рекрутеры или аналитики по Digital Security

📌И это хорошие новости для свитчеров! Проанализировав ваш опыт и навыки, вы скорее всего поймете, что ваш путь от стажера или студента IT-курсов пройдет быстрее, чем вы думаете.

На примерах

✔️Soft skills: creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability, and time management.

✔️Hard skills: cloud computing, artificial intelligence, analytical reasoning, people management, UX design, translation, audio production, natural language processing, scientific computing

✔️Hybrid skills (if you work as non-tech specialist): social media, updating websites, designing presentations, working with databases, match skills,strategy.