Professional profile summaries

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.

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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.

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Submitted by Roblox on Sun, 06/09/2020 - 17:23

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I work in the healthcare business. I have more than 20 years of experiences and I am very good at managing offices and administration. I was graduated from a master's business administration from Strayer University. I am proud of what I do now I hope you do too.

Submitted by Faheem Khan on Sat, 29/08/2020 - 08:19

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i am a social activist and i involved in social activities like, plantation drive, food drive, tourism in the world, explore beautiful places and much more things i do. i also involve in business field. now a days i am doing my MPA (master in public administration) degree which is same like MBA. i am also a part of entrepreneurship. i can apart of entrepreneurship competitions. i also wins lots of business competitions.

Submitted by Waleed jan223 on Mon, 17/08/2020 - 19:33

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Hi everyone. I’m high school student and I’m working on my English so hard to study abroad. I want to become a successful Artificial engineer.

Submitted by Rinaa on Sat, 15/08/2020 - 21:48

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I'm an economist with 5 years' experience in accounting and finance. I'm working for an international company, which is well known for its accounting service. I enjoy working with numbers and helping people with their finances. I have a Master of Bank and Finance from the University of Tirana. I speak English and a little German. I spend my free time reading novels and swimming. I'm skilled in negotiation, problem-solving, and analyzing.

Submitted by Risa on Thu, 06/08/2020 - 10:08

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I’m a first grade of university students, so I haven’t work. I think student’s work is to study. I’m studying English and Chinese now. I want to become able to speak two languages fluently when I graduate from university. My weakness is conversation, I should improve this point. If I conquered my weak point, I would like to use that at work. My aim is to become able to contribute to many people under international work. Also, I want to pass pre-level one English proficiency examination and 750 points in TOEIC. I want to do my best without giving it up of my future. 

Submitted by AMANI148 on Sat, 01/08/2020 - 18:49

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I am student majoring in law. I have one year left. But now am living in united kingdoom with my husbend so I started to learn English language.also am looking to complete a master,s degree.I hope all this will happen.

Submitted by Re on Mon, 20/07/2020 - 03:52

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Hello. I'm a university student now. I want to work using English in the future. Do you want to do something you like as a job? or do you want to work what you are good at? I am worried about this question. Needless to say, the best thing is that be good at what you like. However I think it is very difficult. Living in your specialty is replaced by the meaning of "maximizing your ability." I still unknown my special skill so I'm doing my best to study English now. To become good at English...

Submitted by Seina Tsuchiya on Sun, 19/07/2020 - 17:10

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I'm a college student now, so I've not worked yet. But now I'm looking for a part-time job to buy what I like. If I work at a part-time job, I'm going to choose a cafe or a bookstore. I want to work part-time on my way home from college because I don't have a driver licence. There are no cafe and bookstore within riding a bicycle distance from my home. In the future, I'd like to get a job where I can use the languages I learned at university. Studying abroad will be a great experience for that.
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Submitted by Hennadii on Thu, 16/07/2020 - 15:15

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I'm a telecommunications engineer with over 12 years of experience. Have many-sided experience in this field: equipment installation, site designing, supervising, and managing. Good in teamwork but also can cope with task by myself.

Submitted by Tsuyoshi watanabe on Tue, 14/07/2020 - 14:45

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I am a student, and I have never worked. Therefore, I'm going to write how I can use what I'm studying at university now to work in the future. The skill I'm looking for in the future is English. If I can use English at work, I can work with people from various countries. It is possible to incorporate various ways of thinking and ways of working into my working style by working with a wide variety of people. As I can have more experience in the workplace than just using Japanese, I can gain experience faster by using English.