Archive for August, 2008

working as an administrative employee in an international company

Monday, August 25th, 2008

In my job, I need to do a lot of things: starting by booking flights, continuing by organizing meetings and finishing making presentations or take care of the budget of the department. Of course, there are a lot of personal requires that the boss can ask you to do (for example, take care of things [...]

When to use English in a bank

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

If we don´t want our English to be drowned out by our foreign clients because they don´t understand us, we need to be more compelling by using appropriate language when selling our products. In order to thrive in a customer based industry we need to avoid haphazard attitudes concerning the importance of English. Both employees [...]

Practicing your English over summer

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Vacation time is the perfect opportunity to practice your English. Here is a list of some easy ideas on how to use and improve your English over the summer break;
Movies- Rent them or go and see them in their original version (there are subtitles).
Music- Create a playlist on your ipod of your favorite songs [...]

Book Summary

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Jeffrey Gitomer’s
Little Black Book of Connections

This book is dedicated to networking. Gitomer gives sound and sensible advice on successfully repairing current contact relationships, creating new contacts, maintaining contact relationships and utilizing networks.
Connections are a result of a combination of factors:

Being open to receive the connection.
Being in the right place at the right [...]