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Hey, everyone.
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Welcome back to the Business English Podcast.
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I'm Alex.
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And I'm Emily.
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And today, we're tackling a question that sounds easy and absolutely is not.
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It's four tiny words.
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So, what do you do?
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The most dangerous question at any party.
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Because you have about 10 seconds to describe your entire working life, and most of us completely fumble it.
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We do.
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We either say our job title and nothing else.
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I'm an accountant.
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Full stop.
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Conversation over.
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Or we panic and tell them everything start to finish until their eyes slowly glaze over.
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I know the glaze well.
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I get it every time.
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Someone asks what I do.
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I say, I talk into a microphone.
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And they nod, and they look around the room for someone more interesting.
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You do not say that.
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I have said exactly that.
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More than once.
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And this matters so much more than people think, because you talk about your work experience constantly.
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In a job interview, obviously.
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But also on your first day, when you meet new colleagues.
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At a conference.
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At a networking event where a stranger walks up and says, So, what's your line of work?
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And in every one of those rooms, the person who can describe their experience clearly and warmly just does better.
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They get remembered.
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They get the callback, the introduction, the, oh, you should meet my boss.
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So today, four scenes, four different rooms.
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A job interview, a first day meeting a new colleague,
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a conference, and one tricky situation how to talk about something you're proud of without sounding like you're showing off.
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And the good news is, it's the same core skill underneath all four, with the dial turned up or down.
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Describe what you do, make it human, and hand the conversation back.
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That's it.
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That's the whole game.
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And here's the reassuring part.
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You don't need perfect, fancy English for any of this.
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You need a handful of clear phrases and the confidence to hand the conversation back.
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We'll give you the phrases.
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The confidence just comes from saying them out loud a few times first.
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Confidence through repetition.
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My favorite kind of confidence.
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And these phrases travel.
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Say, I head up the design team.
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Or, I've spent most of my career in logistics.
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Or, what line of work are you in?
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In London, New York, Singapore, Sydney, or Dublin.
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And everyone you meet will know exactly what you mean.
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And think, this person is easy to talk to.
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So let's start in the highest pressure room of them all.
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The interview.
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Where someone looks you in the eye and says the scariest four words in business English.
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Tell me about yourself.
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Set it up for us.
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So Lina is interviewing for a marketing role.
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Across the table is Gaspard the hiring manager.
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He opens with the classic.
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Listen for how she gives a shape to her answer instead of just listing jobs.
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Thanks for coming in, Lina.
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So to get us started, tell me a little about yourself. Of course.
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So the short version.
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I've spent the last six years in marketing, mostly in the food industry.
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I started out as a content writer, then moved into campaign management.
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And for the last two years, I've been leading a small team.
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Great.
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And what drew you to apply here?
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Honestly, your brand.
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I've followed your campaigns for a while.
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In my current role, I'm responsible for our social media and email, and I've seen what good storytelling can do for a product.
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I'd love to do that at a bigger scale.
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Tell me about something you're responsible for day -to -day.
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Sure.
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Day -to -day, I look after our content calendar and manage two writers.
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But the part I enjoy most is the strategy, deciding what story we're telling each season.
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Last year, I led a campaign that we built entirely around customer stories, and it became our best -performing campaign to date.
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And how would you describe your strengths?
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I'd say I specialize in turning data into a story.
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My role these days is part creative, part analytical.
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I'm comfortable in a spreadsheet, and I'm comfortable writing the headline.
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That mix is fairly rare, and it's what I'd bring here.
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That's exactly the kind of thinking we need.
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Tell me more about that later.
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I'd be happy to.
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Now that is how you answer, tell me about yourself.
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Let's pull the phrases because she did several things really well.
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First, she gave it a shape.
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Past, present, and where she's going.
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She said, I've spent the last six years in marketing.
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Then, I started out as a content writer, then moved into campaign management.
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That little word then is doing a lot of work.
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It turns a list into a journey.
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You can say, I started out in sales, then moved into account management.
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Past to present in one clean line.
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And notice the phrase, I started out as.
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To start out means where you began your career.
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You can say, I started out as a junior developer or I started out in a call center.
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It's a lovely, humble way to begin.
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Everyone started somewhere and people warmed to it.
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Then the present day phrases, and these are gold.
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I'm responsible for and I look after.
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Both mean the things that are your job.
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You can say, I'm responsible for the budget or I look after our key accounts.
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Look after is a touch warmer and more natural in conversation.
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You look after clients the way you'd look after a garden.
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And she used, I've been leading a small team.
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Not, I am the leader, I've been leading.
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In English, when you talk about something you started in the past and are still doing, you use that I've been form.
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You can say, I've been managing this project for a year.
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Or, I've been working in finance since 2019.
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It quietly signals experience and continuity.
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And when Gaspar asked about her strengths, she said, I specialize in turning data into a story.
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To specialize in something means it's your particular strength, your focus.
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You can say, I specialize in tax for small businesses.
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Or, we specialize in software for hospitals.
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It tells people not just what you do, but what you're especially good at.
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And she framed the job itself with, my role is.
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You can say, my role is to keep the project on track.
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Or, my role is part design, part research.
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It's a clean, confident way to say what you own.
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And that little pattern, part this, part that, is perfect for a job that's really a blend of two things.
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And one more she slipped in. To date.
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Her best performing campaign, to date, means up to now, so far.
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You can say, it's our biggest client to date, or that's the best result to date.
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It's a small professional phrase that makes you sound measured rather than boastful.
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Right, that's the interview.
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High stakes, prepared answer.
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Now let's walk into a much more relaxed room.
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Because your first week in a new job is its own kind of interview, just friendlier.
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You meet a dozen people, and every one of them asks some version of, so what do you do here?
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Here's Pavel, who started on Monday, grabbing a coffee in the office kitchen.
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Esme, who's been there for years, introduces herself.
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Listen for how they keep it light.
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This is small talk, not a performance review.
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You must be the new person.
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I'm Esme.
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I'm in finance.
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Pavel, nice to meet you.
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I just started on Monday, actually, still finding my feet.
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Welcome.
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So what are you doing here?
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What's your role?
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I've joined the product team.
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I'm a product designer, so basically I work on how the app looks and feels.
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In practice, that means a lot of drawing boxes and asking people why they can't find the button.
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Ha!
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We definitely need that.
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Where were you before?
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I was at a smaller startup for three years.
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I kind of wore a lot of hats there.
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Design, a bit of research, even some customer support.
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Here it's more focused, which honestly is a nice change.
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Nice.
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And are you a designer by trade, or did you fall into it?
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Fell into it, honestly.
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I studied psychology, worked my way up through a few odd jobs, and found design somewhere along the way.
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Best accident I ever had.
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You'll fit right in.
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If you ever need anything from the finance side, just come find me.
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I'm two desks down.
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I appreciate that.
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I'll probably take you up on it.
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So much lighter, right?
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Nobody's being graded.
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Let's grab the phrases because casual self -introductions have their own little toolkits.
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First, the softener for being new.
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I'm still finding my feet.
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To find your feet means to get comfortable in a new situation.
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You can say, I'm still finding my feet, or give me a week to find my feet.
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It's perfect for a first day.
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honest, relaxed, and nobody expects you to know everything yet.
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And Pavel gave a brilliant, plain English version of his job.
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He said, I'm a product designer, the title, and then immediately, so basically I work on how the app looks and feels.
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That word basically is your best friend.
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You can say, I'm a data analyst, so basically I turn messy numbers into clear answers.
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Title first.
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then the human translation.
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Nobody's eyes glaze over when you do that.
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And the phrase, in practice that means, that's how you show what the job really looks like day to day,
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with a bit of honesty and humor.
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Pavel said, in practice that means a lot of drawing boxes and asking people why they can't find the button.
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You can say, I'm in HR, and in practice that means I spend half my day listening.
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It makes you relatable, not just a job title.
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And then a wonderful idiom, I wore a lot of hats.
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To wear many hats means you do lots of different jobs, not just one.
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You can say, at my last place, I wore a lot of hats.
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Or, in a small company, you wear every hat there is.
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It's the perfect way to describe a role that was really five roles.
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People in big companies hear it and feel a little envious.
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And two more Pavel gave us.
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By trade, your official profession, the thing you trained as.
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You can say, I'm an engineer by trade, or she's a lawyer by trade, but she runs a bakery now.
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And admitting you fell into a job by accident is a warm and very human thing to say.
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And I worked my way up.
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That means you started low and climbed step by step.
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You can say, I worked my way up from the warehouse to management.
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Or, she worked her way up over 10 years.
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People love that phrase.
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It's the sound of someone who earned every bit of it.
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And one tiny natural phrase for moving on to your history.
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Where were you before?
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And the answer, I was at.
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You can say, I was at a marketing agency before this.
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Or, before here, I was in banking.
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Simple past because it's finished.
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In, then at, then before.
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The little words that stitch a career together.
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Now let's take all of this into a room full of strangers.
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The networking event.
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Because this is where a lot of learners freeze.
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A conference, a drinks reception, a room full of people you've never met.
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And you have to walk up and talk about your work to someone who owes you nothing.
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Here are Mateo and Juno, two people who've never met, standing near the coffee at a tech conference.
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Watch how a good, what -do -you -do conversation actually flows.
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It's a rally, back and forth, not a speech.
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This coffee line is the real conference, isn't it?
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I'm Mateo, by the way.
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Juno, nice to meet you.
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And yes, I've done more networking right here than in any of the talks.
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So what brings you here, Juno? what's your line of work?
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I work in cybersecurity.
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I help companies figure out where they're vulnerable before someone else does.
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Sounds dramatic, but mostly it's spreadsheets.
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How about you?
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I'm in the same world, sort of.
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I'm a software engineer, but I've been drifting toward the security side, which is honestly why I'm here.
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I'm trying to learn the ropes.
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Oh, then you should go to the two o 'clock session.
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What kind of engineering is your background?
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Mostly back -end.
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I've been at a fintech company for about four years.
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Payments, mostly, which is how I got interested in security in the first place.
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You can't do payments without thinking about risk.
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That makes total sense.
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Here, let me give you my details.
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If you have questions about making the jump, I'm happy to help.
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That would be fantastic.
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Thank you, Juno.
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I'll definitely reach out.
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A perfect little networking exchange.
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Nobody oversold.
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Nobody lectured.
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Let's pull the phrases.
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Start with the questions, because at a networking event, asking is just as important as answering.
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What brings you here?
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And what's your line of work?
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Your line of work just means your field, your profession.
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You can say, what's your line of work?
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Or what line are you in?
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And what brings you here is the perfect opener.
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It works at any event on Earth.
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And Juno answered her job with a formula worth memorizing.
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I help.
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She didn't say, I'm a cybersecurity consultant, which means nothing to most people.
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She said, I help companies figure out where they're vulnerable.
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You can say, I help small businesses pay less tax, or I help hospitals run more smoothly.
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The pattern is, I help plus who plus what.
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It instantly makes your job make sense.
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And she did something clever and very likable.
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She undersold the glamour.
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She said, sounds dramatic, but mostly it's spreadsheets.
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A little self -deprecation makes you human and easy to talk to.
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You can say, it sounds exciting, but it's mostly email.
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People relax when you don't take yourself too seriously.
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Then, the single most important word in the whole episode.
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After she answered, she said, how about you?
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She handed the conversation back.
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You can say, how about you?
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Or, what about yourself?
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Or, and you?
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This is what turns a nervous exchange into a real conversation.
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The best networkers aren't the best talkers.
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They're the ones who ask the next question.
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And one more for keeping it short and painless, in a nutshell.
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It means the very quick version, and it's a gift when you can feel a conversation getting too long.
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You can say, in a nutshell, I keep the website running.
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Or, my job, in a nutshell, is to stop us spending money we don't have.
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Short, friendly, done.
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And when the other person's job sounds interesting, the kindest, most memorable thing you can do is lean in.
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You can say, Oh, tell me more.
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Or, how does that actually work?
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Or, what's that like?
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At a networking event, being interested beats being interesting every single time.
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And Mateo gave us the phrase for changing direction in your career.
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I've been drifting toward.
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And the lovely idiom, learn the ropes.
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To learn the ropes means to learn how something is done, the basics of a new area.
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You can say, I'm still learning the ropes, or she taught me the ropes.
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And my background, what's your background, is the professional way to ask what someone did before.
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You can say, my background is in engineering, or I come from a finance background.
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Right, one more room.
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And this one is the trickiest of all.
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Because at some point, in a review, a pitch, an interview, you have to talk about something you did well.
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And a lot of people, especially outside the U .S., find this genuinely uncomfortable.
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They either shrink it down to nothing, or they overdo it and feel like they're bragging.
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Here's Sadie talking to Wendell, a senior manager in a career check -in.
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He asks her about a project she led.
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Listen for how she takes full credit without once sounding arrogant.
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Sadie, I wanted to hear about the onboarding project in your own words.
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That was a big one.
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It was.
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So, the background.
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We were losing a lot of new users in the first week.
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They'd sign up and then disappear.
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I was asked to lead a small team to fix it.
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And how did it go?
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Really well in the end.
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We rebuilt the whole first -time experience.
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It took about three months, and we brought first -week drop -off down by nearly half.
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I was lucky to have a brilliant team on it.
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That's a huge result.
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What was your role specifically?
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I set the direction and kept everyone aligned.
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I won't pretend I wrote the code.
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That was the engineers.
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But I was the one who kept us focused on the user, and I'm proud of how we pulled together.
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And if you had to do it again?
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I'd pull the engineers in even earlier.
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If I took one lesson from it, it's that the best ideas show up when everyone's in the room from day one,
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not just at the end.
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That's leadership.
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That's exactly what I was hoping to hear.
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She just gave a master class.
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She took real credit, stayed warm, and never once sounded full of herself.
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Let's see how she did it.
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First, she set the scene before the result.
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She said, we were losing a lot of new users.
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Then, I was asked to lead a small team to fix it.
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That phrase, I was asked to, is quietly powerful.
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It means someone trusted you with it.
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You can say, I was brought in to turn the project around, or I was asked to lead the rollout.
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The task found you.
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You didn't have to boast.
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And she talked about results with a real number, but plainly.
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We brought first week drop -off down by nearly half.
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You can say, we cut costs by about a third, or we doubled our output in a year.
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A concrete before and after is the most convincing thing you can say, and it doesn't feel like bragging because numbers just sound like facts.
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Then the magic move, the word we.
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Listen again to how often she said we.
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We rebuilt.
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We brought it down.
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How we pulled together.
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Generous people say we for the work and save I for their specific part.
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You can say, we hit the target and my piece was the planning.
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It makes you sound like a leader, not a show -off.
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And she was honest about what wasn't hers.
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She said, I won't pretend I wrote the code.
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That was the engineer's.
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That little bit of honesty makes everything else she says more believable.
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You can say, I can't take credit for the design.
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That was the team.
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Owning your real part and only your real part is what makes you trustworthy.
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And to finish, the soft, confident phrases.
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I was lucky to have a brilliant team and I'm proud of how we pulled together.
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I'm proud of is the grownup way to express achievement.
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It's warm, it's genuine, and it isn't bragging.
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You can say, I'm really proud of that launch, or I'm proud of what the team built.
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Proud, not boastful.
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There's a world of difference, and English hears it instantly.
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So think back over those four rooms, because talking about your experience is really one skill.
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Dress differently each time.
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In the interview, you give your story a shape, past, present, and direction.
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You say, I started out as, and, then I moved into, and, I've been leading.
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You talk about what you're responsible for and what you look after.
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And you keep it measured with little phrases like, to date.
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With a new colleague, you turn the dial down and keep it human.
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You admit you're still finding your feet.
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You give your title and then the plain English version.
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Basically, I, you say what the job looks like in practice.
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And if you did a bit of everything, you say you wore a lot of hats.
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At the networking event, you make it a rally, not a speech.
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You ask, what's your line of work?
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And what brings you here?
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You explain your job with I help plus who plus what.
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You undersell the glamour a little.
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And above all, you hand it back.
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How about you?
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And when you talk about an achievement, you set the scene first, you say, I was asked to, you give a plain before and after number,
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you say we for the work, you're honest about what wasn't yours, and you finish with, I'm proud of.
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Full credit, zero bragging.
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And underneath all four, the same quiet truth.
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People don't remember your job title.
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They remember whether talking to you was easy.
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Clear, warm, and curious about them, that's what gets you the callback, the introduction, the second conversation.
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So here's your challenge before the next episode.
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Write your own answer to, so what do you do?
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But the good version.
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One line with the human translation using I help or basically I.
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Say it out loud until it feels natural.
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Then write one sentence about something you're proud of at work, starting with, I was asked to.
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Two sentences, your own real work, ready in your pocket.
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Because the next time someone asks what you do, you won't freeze, and you definitely won't say, I talk into a microphone.
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Which, to be fair, is technically true for you.
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It is deeply true, and deeply boring.
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Do as I say, not as I do.
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And tell us in the comments, what do you do?
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Give us your one good line.
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We'd genuinely love to read them, and we'll feature the best ones in a future episode.
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New episodes twice a week.
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If this one helped, send it to the friend who's brilliant at their job
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but goes completely blank the moment someone asks them about it.
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We all know one.
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Maybe we've all been one.
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So this week, write your two sentences and go and use them.
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Take care.
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Thank you.
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Videodan öğrenmeye değer 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:
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|---|---|---|
| phrase isim | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | deyim, tabir |
| rope isim | /ɹoʊp/ | halat |
| plain isim | /pleɪn/ | düzlük, ova |
| designer isim | /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ | tasarımcı, dizayncı |
| colleague isim | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | çalışma arkadaşı, meslektaş |
| skill isim | /skɪl/ | beceri, maharet |
| dramatic sıfat | /dɹəˈmætɪk/ | dramatik |
| translation isim | /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/ | çeviri, tercüme |
| rally isim | /ˈɹæli/ | miting, gösteri |
| pretend fiil | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | numara yapmak, rol yapmak |
| instantly zarf | /ˈɪnstəntli/ | tezden, hemen |
| freeze fiil | /ˈfɹiːz/ | donmak |
| underneath zarf | /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/ | altında, altı |
| honesty isim | /ˈɑ.nɪ.sti/ | dürüstlük |
| tricky sıfat | /ˈtɹɪk.i/ | güç, zor |
Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller
| Kelime | Anlam |
|---|---|
| figure out fiil | açığa çıkarmak |
| show off fiil | hava atmak |
| show up fiil | ortaya çıkmak |
Tekrar etmeye değer cümleler
Videodan, günlük konuşmada yeniden kullanabileceğiniz kısa ve tam cümleler:
- What kind of engineering is your background?
- You can say, what's your line of work?
- After she answered, she said, how about you?
- You can say, how about you?
- You ask, what's your line of work?
Bu videodaki dil bilgisi
Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:
| Yapı | Videoda |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — önceden başlayıp hâlâ süren bir eylem | I've been leading · I've been managing · I've been working |
| Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylem | have said · I've spent · I've followed |
| Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemli | being graded · was asked · was brought |
| İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgi | person who can · someone who earned · someone who owes |
Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar
Konuşmacı I'm, I've, you're gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 99 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.
- “th” sesleri: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/, trustworthy /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/
- “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, reception /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
- Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:
- /w/ — dudaklar yuvarlak, /v/ değil: quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/, warehouse /ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/, trustworthy /ˈtɹʌst.wɜː.ði/, warmly /ˈwɔɹmli/
- Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, plain /pleɪn/, skill /skɪl/, dramatic /dɹəˈmætɪk/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
- /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, dramatic /dɹəˈmætɪk/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, rally /ˈɹæli/, glamour /ˈɡlæmɚ/
Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır
- Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
- 0,75× hızla başlayın, cümle cümle tekrar edin ve kolaylaşınca normal hıza dönün.
- Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; phrase, rope, plain gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.
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