Jan 7, 2020 - First interview preparation class Recently I joined a website, where people are helped to find a new job abroad, prepare for an interview and make the relocation to the new country easy. I met a very amazing and inspiring community there. There is a premium service on the website which allows you to attend the interview preparation classes, have your resume reviewed by professional HR-specialist and other options. So I decided to give it a try and paid for the premium service. Yesterday I began attending the interview preparation course. It was my first time participating in such a class. There were about fifteen guys from different countries. Just to name a few: India, Brazil, Pakistan, and me from Russia. Very diverse and multicultural crowd. A teacher or a lecturer, or I would better call him an instructor, a couch is an outstanding speaker. It seems like he has a lot of experience in coaching people and he knows what he does. We had a few rounds where every attendee had to say something about himself or answer a question. The interesting part was that our coach set a timer and you had only 30 or 45 seconds to make your speech. It was a simulation of the group interview, a quite intense and pressuring practice. In the first round, you had to introduce yourself, in the second one - to tell what is good planning in your opinion and the last one - to give feedback on the coach’s comments. During the class, I made notes about my weak points and here they are. - I understand that I don’t have a short story about me as a professional. That’s a topic for a future post. - I saw that I don’t have defined and clear plans for the next year. - I realized that I can’t quickly formulate my thoughts and put them in well-formed sentences and words in English. ;-) I guess this is a good place to start. I hope that with the help of italky community I can improve my English skills. So, guys, please, don’t be shy to edit my writings and make suggestions about style, phrases and used words. :-) P.s. Good luck to all in 2020!

Writing practice in a fine language. Hello, everybody! I am glad to welcome you in my notebook entry series. I am going to write a short article, a story or just a note about my ideas and life every two days or so. My main reason to do that is a willingness to develop my writing skills, make my expressions more clear and precise, and learn to formulate my thoughts and ideas in a fine language. So, please, do not hesitate to edit my entries, make suggestions about grammar, word usage and writing style in general. Usually, there is a need behind every "will" in our life and this case is not an exclusion. I am in the process of changing my career. I plan to become a web developer and work with people from all over the world. My future occupation requires good oral and writing skills to communicate effectively. Moreover, I want to succeed and get to the top of the game, so those skills become a must for me. p.s. I see there is a counter of characters below the text area (it's an actual name for the text input field in HTML). So I would add this sentence to get at least one thousand in my every notebook entry. :-)