
Learn practical English for IT professionals and aspiring technologists, drawing on real-world IT experience to boost communication, job search success, and career development.
Master the art of small talk by breaking the ice with eye contact and a greeting, introducing yourself, finding shared topics, and closing politely.
Master a confident self-introduction for interviews and presentations by greeting the audience, stating your name and location, outlining your position and company, and sharing hobbies or an icebreaker.
Master common it job interview questions and concise answers, from tell me about yourself to why should we hire you, salary expectations, strengths and weaknesses, five years, and company research.
Craft a tailored cover letter that expresses your interest in the position and highlights your background, including experience architecting large-scale, scalable applications.
Learn to craft a selling resume and cover letter. Optimize with ATS-friendly templates and structure sections from header to skills, including GitHub links and relevant details.
Listen to six IT professionals introduce themselves and identify their roles. Practice matching job titles like software developer, database administrator, project manager, and systems analyst using collocations.
Practice building your own cv using a template that captures education, work experience, skills, and contact details, including hobbies and achievements to stand out to recruiters.
Watch a real job interview for a data scientist role, covering self-introduction and AI focus. Explore reinforcement learning, robotics interest, and a bot mitigation case study with feature ideas.
Listen to a daily routine of an IT service technician. He arrives at 8:30, checks emails, solves laptop issues by phone or remote access, and attends meetings with managers.
Learn how to run effective agile team meetings with clear purpose and agenda, covering sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and retrospective, plus scrum roles, blockers, issues, and key terms.
Participate in a team meeting to evaluate upgrading Windows, memory constraints, and a phased replacement plan within a tight IT budget.
Practice vocabulary for emails by matching terms like subject line, recipients address, email signature, attachment button, and spell checker, then outline steps to sending an email and apply article rules.
Explore the Jira platform for agile project management, using scrum and kanban boards to track issues, epics, stories, bugs, and subtasks, with roadmaps and burn up and burn down reports.
Explore onboarding practices that pair new hires with mentors, introduce them to the code base and team, and progress from entry-level tickets to co-leading initiatives.
Explore basic IT terms and definitions, from programming concepts and databases to front end and back end, testing methods, and essential project management and hr terms.
Explore computer hardware basics by labeling parts like monitor, case, motherboard, cpu, ram, keyboard, and mouse, and review core software types from system software to software suite.
Define front-end development, preview core technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, frameworks such as Angular and React, and containers with Docker and Kubernetes for web apps.
Explore back end development, the server side of web apps, including server management, database interaction, and middleware that connects front end to back end through APIs.
Celebrate completing the course and good luck in finding your dream job. Share feedback via telegram to help improve the course and its content.
We will go through all the stages of an IT job hunting, learn how to write a selling resume, cover letter in English, go through ATS HR filters used by IT companies and successfully pass an IT job interview.
You can also learn how to answer common job interview questions and find lots of links to the most popular resume builders, job hunting platforms, mockup job-interviews etc.
Learn how to start your conversation, make an effective self-presentation and capture attention of your interviewer to stand out in this extremely competitive market.
We will also go through a typical onboarding plan so you can easily crack all onboarding challenges, be well received by colleagues, participate in meetings, work on the Jira platform used to manage in-house communications and project work, write emails and effectively communicate with colleagues.
You will also learn the basic IT terms, concepts and definitions and get an understanding of how everything works here, so you won’t stumble at new words when communicating with your colleagues.
Our course covers the following topics:
IT Jobs
- Self-Introduction and Small-Talk
- How to Write a Selling Resume and a Cover Letter?
- Job Interview - Common Questions and Answers
- Onboarding Plan
Team Work
- Daily Routines
- Team Meeting
- Jira Platform, Chats and Emails
Basic IT Terms and Definitions
This course also includes come practical tasks and listening practice to improve your communicative skills.