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Knowing how to express your level of English allows you to know how to communicate your professional profile and succeed in a job interview.
Within a job interview it is key to express your communication skills in languages such as English.
A CV also expresses the elements that serve to scale your professional profile and thus stand out in the labor market.
The job interview is a scenario, key where the level of English What professionals and technicians they have is put to the test. It is important that you know how to express your level from the CV that represents you, since that is where you set the tone in a job interview.
Abraham GonzalezLatam Marketing Manager at EF English Liveshare with MERCA2.0 the keys to take into account in your next job interview.
Merca2.0 – How to express well the level of English that you know, so that regardless of low or high knowledge, the way of transmitting your knowledge in a job interview or when writing a CV is always professional?
Abraham González – A fundamental element to communicate in English, in this case for a job interview, is that no matter what level we have, we must learn to manage security and naturalness when speaking. And this is achieved through practice. You need to know the right vocabulary for the situation, avoid thinking about it a lot, and focus on the most common questions that are usually asked about professional life to create concrete answers. In this way, we will reflect professionalism.
The ideal is to take courses that specialize in these areas so that we learn to communicate correctly on a specific topic only and practice to be prepared.
Merca2.0 – English is a key skill in the profile of any professional, what elements help make it another opportunity to grow?
AG – The essential elements that make the English language an opportunity to grow and become an added value when looking for a job or seeking a better paid position, consist of having good fluency, clear pronunciation, extensive knowledge of vocabulary to carry out conversations in specialized subjects, knowledge of terminologies, etc.
A good knowledge of the language helps to function in any area of daily life, which leads to a person having greater opportunities to communicate to resolve specific issues. In the case of the professional area, knowing the appropriate terms and vocabulary will help to hold meetings with clients, write emails and documents, request budget or financial issues within the company and, in general, communicate anything that is needed in the environment.
It is well known that proficiency in English usually opens doors to better job, social and even cultural opportunities. Only in Mexico, professionals currently consider studying this language motivated by job growth, looking for a promotion or changing jobs where that extra knowledge translates into a better salary.
Merca2.0 – Within the current market, knowledge of English is fundamental. At what point did your domain become so relevant?
English is known as “the language of the world”, derived from the fact that it is the most widely spoken and studied outside the English-speaking countries, by more than 1,500 million inhabitants, as well as the one used for business, education and international politics. . Its popularity is due to the fact that it began to be a requirement to communicate in these sectors. In addition, the arrival and evolution of the digital age has allowed international companies to make use of video calls to communicate with employees or partners residing in other countries, making English the ideal language to start global conversations.
Derived from this, currently one of the ways to measure the competitiveness of a country is through the English proficiency of its inhabitants to encourage national development, acquiring a relevant role in the search for better development and growth opportunities. In the case of Mexico, according to the recently published EF English Proficiency Index 2021which included interviews with two million people around the world, the news is not good: from 2020 to 2021 the country dropped 10 positions, going from 82nd to 92nd place, considering in both contexts that the level is of “very good domain”. under”.
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