Shadowing Practice: Perfect Cv for Cruise ships @Theshepherds-2022 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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that I need to balance my register, I need to make sales, I need to do...

Guys, this is valuable information.

This is power.

I need to do closing counts, etc. So that whole description is the one that I copy.

Okay.

Where it needs to be edited, I just edit.

Okay.

But I'm just going to take that entire structure.

Why?

Because that's what they're looking for.

That's what they're looking for.

My God!

Did you guys, did you even listen to

that? did you pause in pause right now and just comment fire because i didn't even think of that one

all right guys the video

that you've been waiting for is right here i'm excited for

this guys i'm excited are you excited please make sure right

that you're excited in the comments

because today we are going to talk about your cvs exactly how to put together your cv

but i'm not going to do it alone i'm going to

have a friend helping me i'm going to be having someone

that actually works on the cruise ship that does the same job

that i do and we're going to have a sit down right here

and we're going to tell you more about how to make your cv

and also he's going to be telling his experience as well about working on this uh guys i'm

so excited about this so let's go down i I think he's already arrived.

Let's go downstairs and let's go get him.

All right, guys.

This is going to be a fun one, guys.

This is going to be fun.

Let's go.

Let's go get Mr. Reggie.

So, guys, I'm also super interested where you're watching this video from.

We're going to go right here.

Please write in the comments where you're watching this from.

And if this video is useful to you, guys, please make sure to subscribe to my channel.

Hit that notification bell as well so

that you'll be notified every time I put up a video

because you guys have been asking for it today We're gonna be answering those questions guys Yes, this person is a very very special guest

because he's carrying a lot of information that is very useful to you guys So please make sure to give him love.

Okay, just give him love when we meet him.

His name is Reggie He's a brand ambassador guys on his ship.

He works for a big massive company on a cruise ship

Reggie Reggie just arrived about five days ago coming from the United States.

He's actually here on vacation, on holiday.

He's here to spend his cruise ship money guys.

So maybe I get to hear some of it.

Alright, alright, alright guys.

The man that we've been waiting for is right here, Mr. Reggie.

How you doing man?

Yeah man, how are you?

Good man, long time.

How you doing?

Always good.

Guys, listen up, listen up.

Get over here, get over here Reggie.

Yeah.

So this is Mr. Reggie.

I talk about cruise ships.

I talk about all that stuff, but this is the man that has it all Okay, so if you have a lot of questions, please ask him Please do also show him some love go to his channel subscribe

because he's got a lot of information guys He's got a lot of information to share with you.

Yeah, so Reggie I understand that you just came from the ship just recently.

Yeah, which ship were you on?

Caribbean Caribbean.

Oh, it was fantastic man Two weeks from now I'll be going back to work.

What's up guys how you doing welcome back to another video

guys you are in for a treat this is the video

that you've all been waiting for and I decided not to do it by myself

because there's someone better that can

that can actually tell you what we're about to get into

and this gentleman right over here I talk about money I said this before

but I talk about money I talk about all these things

and cruise ships and stuff but this is the guy this is where all the money is

okay

so um his name is reggie how you doing brother i'm

good welcome man thank you for having me yeah yeah

so my fans actually want to know a lot they've been waiting for this video for a long time

and i thought that you'd be able to help me and um and so you guys know

he works on the ship and we work for the same company

and we have the same job only that he He has more money.

So what's going on, man?

How's it going?

I'm good, man.

I'm good.

Good, man.

Reggie, if you can, you know, start by telling us, you know, what was your journey like of working on a cruise ship?

How you got a job on a cruise ship?

And what was the process?

Was it hard?

Was it difficult?

Because a lot of my people actually really, they want to know.

They want to apply, you know, the hardships that you face.

And, you know, what can you say?

I know that a lot of people they've been messaging me

and even on the in the comments as well They mentioned that you know, we keep applying and there's nothing there's no responses.

So today I think we have to attack that that question and Whatever we can do to help them.

Let's help them.

Absolutely.

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Yes.

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So pretty much my journey started like in 2020

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At that time I was staying in Dubai during the COVID time during the COVID time.

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Yeah, yeah So my wife prior to that used to work on the ship

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so she used to tell me a lot of stories about the ship life traveling

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so I kind of grew a bit of interest

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so we had a friend that we had this is one thing

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that I learned in life there's nobody who's self-made there's always people around you people to help you

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so she helped us she got a link hey guys there's

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an opportunity this company is on board they're hiring they need people

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so you know what because we love traveling we're like let's

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and that's that's one thing that i always you know emphasize

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that when you work on a cruise ship

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and i i know i make it easy i make it look easy

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or make it sound easy but

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when you work on the cruise ship yes there's going to

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be some hard work guys do not do there is going to be a lot of hard work

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but as i always say you will get rewarded for your hard work

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but then you also have an opportunity to travel see different countries around the world see cultures

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and people from all around the world yeah

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so yeah um tell me more yeah so they they gave us a link and we just applied

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now so talk about the link it looks like there's a lot of confusion

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and a lot of people are afraid of being scammed right

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i have a few links in some of my videos and stuff like that

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can you maybe elaborate more on the link part where did

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that link uh lead you on the website

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and what were you able to do there

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and then maybe later on you can show me you can share with me

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that link and then we can put in the description as well

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so other people can actually use that uh that's

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that opportunity yeah tell me more about the link so

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so basically uh any job that's gonna

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or a link that's gonna ask you to pay something up front that's more like a red flag guys pay Pay attention.

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Did you hear that?

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Did you hear that?

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Someone that's going to ask you to pay something.

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It's a red flag already because you haven't gotten a job.

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You haven't gotten nothing.

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And then already someone is asking you to pay something, which is ridiculous.

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Yeah. So, yeah.

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So basically how the link came about is there's always somebody who's on the ship, right?

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they already have direct contact with the could be the the team

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that the that is the company that's hiring

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so we got like an email to directly to the HR okay

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that was the link that we got okay

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and we did the application now the most important thing is

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on the application part I can say this AI this day

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and age should be your best friend chat gpt guys just

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use just use your gpt you know i use chat gpt

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all the time like literally all the i was one of those people

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that was like ah you don't want to use ai yeah yeah

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but believe me it makes your life way way way way easy yeah

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because you you can you can use your gpt

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and now there's a lot of uh applications that can give you a structure of a well presentable resume.

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Yeah, CV.

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Yeah.

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Now, a resume is basically is going to be like a representation of you.

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The way you present yourself physically when people see you, your resume is going gonna stand in for you

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by how it's going to be presentable for example let's say

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punctuation full stop all those tiny little details say a lot

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about you yeah that's the reason why that's that's what a lot of people don't get exactly

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when they when you make a cv you know you just want to put on the cv what you do

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what you want yeah and who you are but then you forget

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that it represents you absolutely you know do you have the punctuation correctly

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and yeah that's a great point yeah it's a great point

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so this is what I what we did

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so whenever you type in any job

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that you might be applying for it's gonna take you through like responsibilities okay

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so what I did I just copy and paste

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but however I read through the whole description to see is it something

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that is in line with what I am applying for for example I might be a qualified doctor

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but I have a background in sales okay there's already a contradiction there okay okay I cannot put description

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or responsibility of sales on a doctor CV on a job related to medical

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or being a doctor so whatever job

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that you're applying read it through is it something

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that you're capable of is it something

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that is almost similar to what you do for for example

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our role is sales yeah literally every industry has some form

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of sales sales everybody's trying to sell exactly yeah whether it's in medical there's the sales department yeah

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so I read through the description of that job description when it comes to sales so So I will edit where possible,

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but however, I just copy it as it is.

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The reason why I'm copying, it's already in punctuated form.

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The grammar is already correct.

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Okay.

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So I'm not going to do as much.

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So explain to me, like I'm a little kid, like I'm five years old.

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The very same thing that you're telling me now.

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Yeah.

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So you go to the website.

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Yeah.

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Then you look for the job descriptions.

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Yes.

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You copy that.

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So let's say for example, we want to research sales job.

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Okay.

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So it's going to list everything, right?

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Okay, so-and-so company is looking for this.

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Okay.

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Here are the responsibilities.

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Okay.

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So I'm focusing on their responsibility.

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Responsibilities.

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So it's going to list to me that I need to balance my register.

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I need to make sales.

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Guys, this is valuable information.

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This is power.

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I need to do closing counts etc so

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that whole description is the one that I copy okay

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when the way it needs to be edited I just edit okay

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but I'm just gonna take that into a structure why

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because that's what they're looking for that's what they are looking for did you guys did you even listen to

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that did you pause in pause right now and just comment fire

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because I didn't even think of that wow that's that's insane

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so we're gonna go to exactly how you build the resume

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and actually that information is is on your channel okay

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when we talk about how we'll build the resume resume step by step

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but right now i do want to know what you do on board and

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if cruise ships has changed your life

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or made your life worse let me know we're gonna be open guys this is an open conversation

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and it's unfiltered okay um

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so just just tell me more about your journey uh after

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you got hired until to today what did you start you know your job is

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and and where are you now at this point in life in life

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so let me start off by saying this uh before i get into what i do

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so this is what i learned when i was talking to my wife hearing a lot of stories about cruise ship.

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So in 2020, when COVID hit, even the people who were working on the cruise line

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earning X amount of money they also went on hard times reason being they probably did not plan ahead

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so now coming back to what i do

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it's all about putting yourself into

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that mind space where you are prepared for somebody who's looking to be starting to work on the cruise

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so i work in the same role

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that uh nabut uh does we we are we are brand ambassadors brand ambassadors brand ambassadors concierge uh

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but it's basically all sales at the end of the day yeah

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but he has more money than me no no no

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so basically yeah so basically what i do is i represent the company i host events

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and i make sure that i'm the face

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of the brand so everything to do with the brand has to align even the way i present myself

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how my turn everything okay

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because I'm basically the face is he's the face of the company the company yeah

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and then you educate people on yes how to buy diamonds

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you know yes to buy jewelry you're basically also a stylist on board as well absolutely

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because you get to you know help people with the correct piece of jewelry

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or the correct engagement ring you know you yeah you you're like a consultant as well in

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that role that is correct yeah that's correct I think it's a fun job as well

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so before that did you do anything else on board

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that was not what you're doing right now

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so on board I started off with the same company

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but however I started off from the entry-level point

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when you listen to that guys so this is what I always say you don't start big I mean You can, but usually it doesn't work like that.

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And if you do start big, sometimes it doesn't last.

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So you don't start big.

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I also always tell my fans that I also started very low as well.

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I started as a jeweler.

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But even though I knew that the one job that I wanted to do was to be an ambassador, you know, to talk and to be a public speaker.

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But I started as a jeweler.

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And then at the time, there was a role called the marketing associate yeah

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and then i went to marketing associate

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and then for me i think i was blessed

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because everything happened in a very short space of time it

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can happen for you it cannot happen for you as well

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it's just how life is it's not going to be the same my life my path

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and your path is not going to be the same

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but for me everything started like it went so fast i was a jeweler for one month

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and then that month the end of that month I became a marketing associate

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and here's what happened yeah I became a marketing associate

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and COVID happened wow and COVID happened yeah

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so now I had to we had to go home six

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months in the water you know you know the whole story of the COVID

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uh six months in the water trying to get to home

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trying to get to Zimbabwe it was a hell of a mess

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um however i went back to work again in 2022

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that was the february of 2022 i went back to work and

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when i went back to work my um my leader actually

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i'm not going to say the name here he said to

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me naboth um i know you've prepared for one month as a jeweler

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and then you did another month as a marketing associate right

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now prepare yourself this is what he told me he said prepare yourself

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because we are going to throw you in the deep i

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can relate we are going to throw you in the deep

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neighbor you are not going to start where you were before you are now going higher

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so get ready

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and i had to switch my mind i had to go

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okay mentally you know like the matrix movie you just go okay uh beast mode initiated

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or a certain mode so this is what i did i was like okay let's go, let's do it.

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Yeah.

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I wasn't ready, but then like you said, no man is self-made, right?

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I had people that

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Perfect Cv for Cruise ships @Theshepherds-2022”. This video has 286 sentences and 2983 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:45. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
cruise noun	/kɹuz/	A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
resume verb	/ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/	To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
edit verb	/ˈɛdɪt/	To change a text, or a document.
jeweler noun	/ˈd͡ʒuːələ(ɹ)/	A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry.
pause noun	/pɔːz/	A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
presentable adjective	/pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/	In good enough shape to be shown or offered to other people; tidy; attractive.
punctuation noun	/ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/	A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include…
jewellery noun	/ˈd͡ʒʊ-/	Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
subscribe verb	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
concierge noun	/ˌkɑnsiˈɛɹʒ/	An employee of a hotel who attends to the requirements and wishes of guests.
contradiction noun	/ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/	The act of contradicting.
punctuate verb	/ˈpʰʌŋktjuːeɪt/	To add punctuation to.
stylist noun	/ˈstaɪlɪst/	A designer.
unfiltered adjective		Without a filter (e.g., a cigarette).
hardship noun	/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/	Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
get over verb	To overcome.
listen up verb	To listen closely; to pay attention.
read through verb	To thoroughly read something to check or proofread it.
go down verb	To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
plan ahead verb	To schedule or plan extensively for problems before it is needed; to come up with solutions before problems occur; to prepare for future situations.
put together verb	To assemble, construct, build, or formulate.
put up verb	To place in a high location.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Let's go downstairs and let's go get him.
We're going to go right here.
How you doing man?
How you got a job on a cruise ship?
Did you hear that?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	you've been waiting · have been asking · we've been waiting
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to work · used to tell
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't gotten · has changed · you've prepared
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be edited · be notified · being scammed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 70 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: punctuation /ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/, concierge /ˌkɑnsiˈɛɹʒ/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/
Long words — get the stress right: presentable /pɹəˈzɛntəbəl/, punctuation /ˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, initiate /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like cruise, resume, edit.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?