English for the Workplace

The course workplace split to four part.
The first and second part focus on looking for a job, prepare the CV , covering letter and interview. I learn some useful expressions and key point in this situation. Such as application, we have to know what do we like doing and what are we good at? Prepare CV, we must list our skill to tell interviewer why we are the right person for this job? What's the hard skill and soft skill we have? When we are getting a offer to interview, don't have to dress a suit, but don't dress jacket , you should address appropriate. When interviewer ask you weak part to improve. you don't talk about any negative in details. Try to think about area you are already to try to improved. So, you can end in positive way.

The third and forth part are talking about how to start a new job. what should we know? How to get on with colleague and boss to finish a job? This part is more important to me. Each office has their regular and solution, we have to be familiar with it. When we need to cooperation with our colleague, we could polite to show up our opinion, making suggestion and agreeing or disagreeing politely. when we give praise to colleague or receiving praise from boss how to expression. When our hard work doesn't not be accept by leader, how to explain, give the alternative suggestion and make a plan, in the end apologize for the inconvenience.
In a word, this course is not only for language, that could teach you more about the office manner. For the new people who is going to the job, that's good course. For the people who has worked for years. We also could learn how to deal with office relationship. I think you need it too!

As a private face-to-face teacher of English as a foreign language, I am taking this course as part of my CPD because I intend to add adults to the list of my learners. Adults have different needs when they want to learn English, sometimes they are motivated by their intention to pursue an international career, and therefore want to improve all their skills.
This course leads you into the world of working people and allows you to learn how to find a job and to have interviews. It's well organized and covers all different aspects of the process of finding a new job, from the analysis of personal job expectations, through the steps of preparing for and interview and starting a new job, and in the end it focuses on useful and interesting aspects of the working environment.
Practical advice is given, as well as many digital sources to expand the available information: the educators follow and comment each step of the course and are also available to meet attendees of the course every week in a facebook online conference, answering questions and giving further information.
As an area of improvement I would focus on the digital aspects and tools that are more and more frequent parts of our daily life, giving some examples of video interviews for instance. Moreover, I wish the course would give a wider point of view exceeding the British borders, maybe eliciting comments and comparisons with the participants different countries of origin.

In my view, first, I joined this course to develope my knowledge and skills of English teaching skills as I have been teaching in high schools from 2007 to date in Somalia and I took my primary, secondary and P1 teaching education in kenya which its curriculum based on British system and the best in Africa in terms of educational rank I have been looking online English course to get English diploma graduates certificate from certified English professional organization that can add value to my career because here in Somalia there is no university that offers more than diploma in English and it is difficult for English learners to develope their careers . Next the well being students go abroad to prepare the IElTS . When I joined this course , I have found English professors and English students from different countries this made me to relief some of my cravings and I also learnt how to succeed in interviews and the right language to apply , what to wear , the time, how to introduce yourself, the future plan and what is not suitable during the interviewer. Moreover, my dilemma is will they give you certificate of achievement and what type will they give you.

I recommend to extend you course time to English teaching diploma or writing skills course that will enable students to get certificates to look for a job or join other universities for further studies.

Infact the course is interesting and educational. It has become my favorite channel and I become obsessed to it.

I've been teaching Business English for one month an it was my first experience in a company. I was looking for a course that help me to increase my knowledge and prepare me to be a very good teacher. I needed materials to share, and the right methods to help my students in order to acquire valuable and practical day-to-day knowledge, terminology and contents to be used in their workplace. I'm about to finish the third week, and I'm studying at night after work. I'm not regretted to make this effort and invest my time taking this course (and I'm really motivated!). In my opinion, it's essential for us, English learners and teachers, in order to give a step forward to our own growth and development. All the extra information, listening activities, videos and tasks make this course really interesting and let us with the desire to discover what's next :) After all this time, I can say I'm totally satisfied with this course. I highly recommend it!

Very informative and work-based is English for the Workplace. Starting with the language and application models used for applying for jobs and preparing for interviews (Weeks 1-2), the course focuses on communicating and sharing learners’ thoughts, comments and answers to questions in the sections of COMMENTS, which definitely has improved our comprehensive linguistic and communicative competence in the workplace contexts after reading, making or replying to so many wonderful and creative comments from different areas of the world, especially following the educators’ scaffolding, instructive and constructive comments or replies.
The contents are very valuable and helpful. For example, important things to learn when we start a new job (Week 3) and working with people (Week 4) are, in particular, useful because we get to know how to deal with a job offer, how to be responsible for our work and how to handle problems. Besides, the introduction to company rules and regulations, health and safety at work, etc. are workable. Without learning them, we can not succeed in our work.
I appreciate the tutoring styles of the course very much. The introduction, elicitation, questions, further readings and communicative comments in each week are well-designed and very professional.
We have been in quarantine since January 25 for the health of our friends, our families and humanity. Many thanks to you, all the educators of this course for accompanying us fighting the Corvid -19.

Wang Shaojun
Changzhou Vocational Institute of Mechatronic Technology
Jiangsu, Changzhou, PRC

I think this course of 'Learn English for the workplace' is wonderful course.
I have already known the "British Council.org study course", and have learnt some lessons before. But, this course is very compactly compiled and very useful for the all the people world wide.
However, I'm old man and retired the job already, so I first think whether this course is fit for me or not. But this course is very useful course for me to attend the class and have gotten many wonderful things.

To tell you the truth, I never realized that so many wonderful educators supported up this course until I started this course. So I should say this course is very good course for the all learners who want to get good job.
What makes me feel wonderful is that I never have experiences to have attended foreign universities or like. But, this course gives me a chance to make me feel like attending just like foreign study course I am taking now.

All the members are enthusiastically write their answers relating to the problem solving. This gives me many good chances to know that all the members all over the world have not so much different ideas as I have been thought. This result can not be attained, if I should stay only within our own country. And this time I understand foreign job application and interviews are almost the similar as our country. This also very useful for me to have experience that is very profitable when it is required to explain them to the younger generations.
The study chance you gave me was wonderful chance and I appreciate this chance I have got.

And finally I must show you why I have know this course is the email that you've sent me once at a month. This is very useful information for us to know to open our door toward the international English world.
Anyway, I much owe you for this wonderful lessons you gave me. Thank you very much for your instructions.
I wish your company will have many more successful years.

Thank you very much. M. Onoda 11.17.2019

First of all, I'd like to thank your team for all your hard work. I really appreciate it. I've learnt a lot of knowledge and skills that I lacked in this area. The course is interesting!

Secondly, I'd like have some suggestions:

* I think there should be more interaction between lead educators and learners. You just showed up and was available for a certain time, and I've joined the course after that time. I myself as well as other learners have some questions which we need proper answers. We know that we can learn from our peers but there are too many comments to read and lots of questions are missed and left with no response. Would you take more time to interact with us?

** I recommend that content of the course such as videos, relevant materials should be refreshed form time to time (6 months or a year must be the best) for updating, upgrading or making the course more and more interesting with new ideas.

Finally, thanks again for the course.