Vocabulary to use in a CV, resume & job interview exercise part 2
In this second of three online exercises on vocabulary in CVs, resumes and job interviews, you'll learn and remember more professional English words/phrases that you can use to improve your CV/resume and job interview performances.
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Exercise: More examples of CV/resume and job interview words
Below are a number of verbs and phrases that are commonly used in business English to make sentences sound more professional.
From the context, try to guess what the meaning of the words/phrases in bold are. Then do the quiz at the end to check if you are right.
1. Before I arrived, the business was losing a lot of money. So I made some important changes and I turned around the business. It made a profit a year after I had arrived.
2. The company had a lot of processes which slowed things down. So the first thing I did was to eliminate a lot of them. Some of the staff were used to working in a set way and weren't happy when some of the processes were gone.
3. Being both a woman and a senior manager, I had to overcome a lot of criticism and negative stereotypes. But I did and now I'm a director.
4. It's fundamental for a company to deliver what the customer wants and expects. Any company that doesn't do that, will lose their customers.
5. I've always carried out what my managers have asked me to do. And I expect the same if I give my staff something to do.
6. In order to reduce costs, we had to restructure the sales team. Moving people and introducing a complete change from how they had worked before.
7. I contributed a lot to the new process. The project manager asked me for ideas and I suggested how it should work.
8. I had a very important position in that company. In fact, I reported to the financial director. He was my boss.
9. Every company now should streamline it's way of working. Not only to save money, but also to make things more efficient.
10. I had to evaluate the performance of all the senior managers. Being asked why they did things in a certain way, wasn't something that they liked.
Quiz:
Below is a definition/description of each of the words/phrases in bold from the above text (which you can also find in the grey box below). Answer each question with one of these words/phrases in bold. Only use one word/phrase once and write it as it is in the text. Click on the "Check" button at the bottom of the quiz to check your answers.
When the answer is correct, two icons will appear next to the answer. The 
icon contains extra information on the word/phrase. In the 
icon, you can listen to the pronunciation of the word/phrase.
Words/phrases to use in the quiz
Practice
Now that you understand the meaning of the words/phrases and when to use them, practise using them by creating your own sentences with them in English. Also click on the icon next to each correct answer and listen how each is pronounced correctly.
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