From application to offer — a CV and cover letter that read as English, the questions interviews really ask, describing your experience, and talking about technical work under pressure.
An interview is a short conversation with a disproportionate result, held in the one register most learners have practised least: talking about your own work, to strangers, at speed. The order here follows the process. First the vocabulary of jobs and workplaces, then the written stage — a CV and a cover letter that read as English rather than as a translation of your own language — then the interview itself: the questions that come up almost every time, how to describe what you did without either underselling it or reciting your CV aloud, and how to be exact about technical work. It closes with the two things a strong candidate needs beyond preparation: the small talk before the interview starts, and the fluency to answer a question nobody warned you about.
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