{"id":117,"date":"2008-03-02T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2008\/03\/02\/bep-87-adv-job-interviews-greatest-accomplishment-part-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T19:16:11","slug":"bep-87-adv-job-interviews-greatest-accomplishment-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2008\/03\/02\/bep-87-adv-job-interviews-greatest-accomplishment-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 87 ADV &#8211; Job Interviews: Talking about Accomplishments (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business English Podcast lesson, we examine another good example of how to respond to questions about your previous experience and, in particular, how to describe your accomplishments and proudest achievements.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll look at someone with a little more job experience: Yala Santos is an HR specialist who is working in a manufacturing company. She now has an opportunity to interview for an HR manager position in a business unit of a fast moving consumer goods company, Fun Beverages International. Let&#8217;s listen to how Yala deals with talking about her greatest achievement.<\/p>\n<p><script> function showhide(id){ \tif (document.getElementById){ \t\tobj = document.getElementById(id); \t\tif (obj.style.display == \"none\"){ \t\t\tobj.style.display = \"\"; \t\t} else { \t\t\tobj.style.display = \"none\"; \t\t} \t} } <\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/listening-quiz\/\">Listening Questions:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('277'); return(false);\"><strong>1) <\/strong>What was the project Yala was working on?<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"277\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong>Yala was working on the launch of a global, harmonized performance management system that would provide a single, interlinked on employee performance for human resources worldwide. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('278'); return(false);\"><strong>2) <\/strong>What was her role in it?  <\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"278\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong> Yala worked on localization and documentation for her business unit. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('279'); return(false);\"><strong>3) <\/strong>What did she do?<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"279\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong> She coordinated with the sales team to provide them with pre-training on the system and to ensure that they could set all their targets.<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide('280'); return(false);\"><strong>4) <\/strong>What was the outcome?<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"280\" style=\"display: none\"> <font color=\"#ff0000\"> <strong>The launch was successful. Yala&#8217;s efforts helped ensure that the launch of the new system had no negative effect on the bottom line (profit) of the company because of the seamless (smooth) transition into using the harmonized database. <\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"3\" width=\"630\">\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\" height=\"32\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Premium Members <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\" width=\"420\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Online activities <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/aMember\/signup.php\" target=\"_blank\">(Members \/ Free Trial)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"63\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/podpress_trac\/web\/117\/0\/BEP087ADV-Accomplishments2.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/images\/podcasts72.jpg\" alt=\"MP3 free download business English podcast lessons - workplace English training dialogs, examples phrases, explanations and ESL speaking practice\" height=\"56\" width=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td height=\"28\" width=\"124\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/podpress_trac\/web\/117\/0\/BEP087ADV-Accomplishments2.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/exercises\/BEP87QIZ.html\">BEP 87 ADV &#8211; Accomplishments 2 &#8211; Listening Quiz<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"28\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/exercises\/BEP87CLZ.html\">BEP 87 ADV &#8211; Accomplishments 2 &#8211; Gap-fill Exercise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/phrasecasts\/BEP087PC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/images\/phrasecast72.jpg\" alt=\"MP3 business English review podcast - practice dialog, useful phrases and ESL speaking practice\" height=\"56\" width=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/phrasecasts\/BEP087PC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Phrase-Cast<\/a> <\/strong><\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/exercises\/BEP87TRS.html\">BEP 87 ADV &#8211; 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Structuring your Example<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"mailto:editor@businessenglishpod.com?subject=Group%20Membership\">Email for  info<\/a><\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/exercises\/BEP87LAN5.html\">BEP 87 ADV &#8211; Accomplishments 2 &#8211; Review the 4-Step Structure<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/exercises\/BEP86LAN6.html\">BEP 87 ADV &#8211; Accomplishments 1- Vocabulary Practice<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td height=\"28\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/exercises\/BEP87VOC.html\">BEP 87 ADV &#8211; Accomplishments 1 &#8211; Flashcards<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business ESL lesson we look at a 4-part structure for presenting your accomplishments and achievements in a job interview.<\/p>\n<p>When responding the question about your most significant accomplishment, it&#8217;s very important that you prepare to tell a story that is organized and articulate. That means the story should be well structured and flow smoothly. Listen to the podcast and learn how to structure your responses and practice the language for describing your achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,31,19],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}