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MOOC

English@Work: CVs

Based on interviews with industry professionals and recruitment specialists, this course helps you create a compelling CV / résumé that will get your foot in the door. Be the last they have to read - Be the first they want to call!
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:

prepare your CV
get your CV noticed
find suitable referees
use positive action verbs
use HR buzzwords

Keywords:: Applications for positions Job hunting Résumés (Employment)
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

English@Work: Advanced Job Interview Skills

Once you have successfully grasped the foundation of interview success by completing our English@Work: Basic Job Interview Skills course, how you persuade others to believe that you are as good as you say you are is now the challenge. Our instructors have had a 100% success rate in getting interviews and landing a job, and we hope to share that experience with you.
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:

prepare precise and persuasive answers to challenging questions
use verbal and non-verbal skills to impress the interviewers
perform professionally during and after interviews

Keywords:: Job hunting Employment interviewing Interviewing
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

English@Work: Basic Interview Skills

Based on advice from accomplished professionals in the business, HR and academic field, we have created a course that helps you build a solid foundation to succeed in job interviews and get that ultimate call. This course will change the way you prepare for and perform in job interviews.
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:

achieve interview success in six steps
find out how YOU can be an independent learner and become a life-long learner
stand out from the crowd using four strategies
avoid common mistakes
highlight soft and hard skills using appropriate vocabulary and expressions
structure impressive answers using four steps
express opinions and delaying answers effectively

Keywords:: Job hunting Employment interviewing Interviewing
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

Read to Know!

This self-paced online course encourages extensive reading and helps students improve their reading and overall English skills. It has activities on different English books ranging from 59 Seconds to Animal Farm. There are also materials on the READ@PolyU 2017 book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the READ@PolyU 2018 book, Fifteen Dogs, and the READ@PolyU 2019 book, Persepolis. Created by the English Language Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Reading
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

Learning4Life

This self-paced online course will help students to improve their language skills, find out how they can be an independent learner and become a life-long learner, increase their knowledge of effective study skills, and balance their study and life by highlighting efficient uses of time and healthy study practices. Created by the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Keywords:: Study skills English language -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: MOOC

MOOC

Academic Skills for Independent Learners (ASIL)

The self-paced online course is for students to self-study, practise and improve the academic English that they need for their university studies. Topics include appropriate academic style, correct referencing conventions, writing university levels essays and reports, delivering academic presentations and participating in discussions. Created by the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.