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Professional
profile summaries
Read two professional profile summaries
to practise and improve your reading
skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then read

the text and do the exercises.

Preparation

Reading text

Maria
I am an architect with 20 years'
experience of designing and
developing spaces. I am a partner
in the award-winning STG
Architects Ltd, which is famous for
its work on the Galroy Building in
London. I enjoy working with
people from all over the world and
have international experience of
working in Italy, Greece, Thailand,
Australia and Brazil. I have a
Master of Science from Sheffield
University and a BA in Architecture
from Hull University. I also speak
Italian and Thai. When I am not
working, I spend my time hiking,
skiing and diving.

Emily
I am an experienced sales
manager with 12 years' experience
of developing customer service
teams. I am skilled in negotiation,
team motivation and building
successful sales teams. After ten
years of working in sales and
customer service at Halo Bank, I
am now the sales office manager
of a team of 120 at Southern
General Plastics Ltd. I have an MBA
from Stanford University and a
degree in Business Studies from
Cornell University. I am creative
and hardworking, and enjoy
working with others.

Task 1

Task 2

Building.
Feedback
3. Maria likes working with people ×
from
Totalallscore
around
is 8 the 8 (100%)
out ofworld

4. Maria likes hiking, skiing and

diving in her free  time.

5. Emily has spent 12 years

managing customer

service  teams.

6. One of Emily's skills is building

successful  sales teams.

7. Emily studied business 

studies at Cornell University.

8. Emily is creative and works

hard  .

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Discussion
What work do you do? How would you
describe your experience and your
skills?

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Comments
Andrea Valencia

replied on 18 April, 2021 - 17:23

Colombia

I am a school teacher with 15 years of

experience teaching teenagers, I am skilled
in teaching languages because I speak
English, Spanish and Italian.

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MikhailZatopliaev

replied on 11 April, 2021 - 00:34

Bulgaria

I am Economist, with 5 year experience. I am

working for RN Ltd. company in investment
department. I am expert in financial
modelling, and create many useful form that
make my and my colegs work easy and
better. I have bachelor degree of Economic
from SFU. I spent my free time actively, I like
bicycle, and for walk, also I like chess. I am
part of CFA program, I passed Level 1, and
going to register for Level 2.

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Venequin

replied on 5 April, 2021 - 20:46

Venezuela

I work at a cement industry where I spend

all my days complain bout all the things I
have to do there, which it's very very but
very little, though at the end of the day I just
have this thought where only Know that I'm
just getting ready for a real complaint in the
future.

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TIa vinaka

replied on 23 March, 2021 - 02:33

Japan

I am not working at the moment but I have a

lot of experiences of various industries. over
10 years of customer service jobs in my
country and I have worked abroad as a
room attendant and farmer.
I'm good at working efficiently and flexibility.
I will try new things for the next.

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ANOUAR

replied on 24 February, 2021 - 08:56

Morocco

I'm working now in an architecture school

where I made different tasks.
the experiance that i got from this job is
knowing how to deal and solve problemes
and also how to deal with people
professionally.
I have different skils that I'm working on
right now to improve...

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In

replied on 24 February, 2021 - 07:10

New Zealand

I`m a Massage therapist with 9 years of

experience. I've started my training in
Argentina with Ayurvedic massage. After
that, I studied Massage therapy in Chile.
Where I started to work in the Hotel and
tourism industry as a massage therapist.
Then I traveled to New Zealand where my
first job was in a Chinese massage center,
where I learned about this massage
technique. After that, I decided to open my
own studio of Massage where I complement
all my previous studies to make a massage
with my own stamp.

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Denken

replied on 15 February, 2021 - 08:14

Saint Lucia

Well, I working in Airport. It's very seriously

work on car. I'am studied in RGSU university,
on faculty sociology. But don't found work
by speciality

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Leila77

replied on 13 February, 2021 - 11:19

Algeria

I am a teacher with 16 years' experience. I

am a person who likes helping others and I
am very patient. These two skills are really
importatnt in teaching.

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Sara Kalafat

replied on 5 February, 2021 - 14:52

Jordan

I worked as a consultant customer service in

Fordeal in this job i learned how to work
using CRM "customer relation management",
i solved customer's problems from (French,
Australia, England, Italy, Spain and Greece)
such as: find and track their orders and
Refund them according to Financial
problems or for received items.
Also i worked as an interpreter for French
and English tourists in a Rest House.

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German

replied on 2 February, 2021 - 01:46

Colombia

In my work I help to the companies to

manage Management Systems and improve
their competitive. I'm a person that like to
work in teams and for objectives, I try
improve all the things in the companies and
support.

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