Professional profile summaries

Read two professional profile summaries to practise and improve your reading skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

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Maria

I am an architect with 20 years' experience of designing and developing spaces. I am a partner in the award-winning STG Architects Ltd, which is famous for its work on the Galroy Building in London. I enjoy working with people from all over the world and have international experience of working in Italy, Greece, Thailand, Australia and Brazil. I have a Master of Science from Sheffield University and a BA in Architecture from Hull University. I also speak Italian and Thai. When I am not working, I spend my time hiking, skiing and diving.

Emily

I am an experienced sales manager with 12 years' experience of developing customer service teams. I am skilled in negotiation, team motivation and building successful sales teams. After ten years of working in sales and customer service at Halo Bank, I am now the sales office manager of a team of 120 at Southern General Plastics Ltd. I have an MBA from Stanford University and a degree in Business Studies from Cornell University. I am creative and hardworking, and enjoy working with others.

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I'm a first-year university student, so I'm not working. But I've been working part-time job since high school. I'm working in restaurant. Therefore, I can serve with a smile. I'm studying English and Korean now. I want to make of my part-time job experience to become a staff member working at the airport in Korea. So I must study harder！

I am a freshman university student. I have three qualifications for English skill test from 3 to 2 grade. Also, I am a Spanish speaker, so that I have experiences in more than three languages. I enjoy talking with people from around the world. Now, I am learning a lot of things in the university in order to improve my English skills. My nearest goal is to pass the grade 1 English skill test and got about 900 points in TOEIC.

Friends, I still study archivist skillpack, learning English, German and information about my future job. Hope that I'll study in college since September.

I am a teacher of English. I have been working as a teacher for 12 years. I teach foreign language in medicine, so I am good at translating and interpreting medical texts. I have a degree of Master. In my free time I like trying new recipes.

I'm not working. I'm a first-year college student now. When I was in junior high school student, I decided to study English at university. Because I want to work in a job in which I use English. So I'm studying some languages and countries. That is really fun. I should get more experience. I want to try my hand at a lot of different things in this four years. I have to continue to study harder and come to be able to speak English. The experience that I gained here will probably help me greatly in my future jobs. I'll do my best!!

I work at a convenience store. The main focus of work is customer service. I also use a computer at the backyard.

I am a university student and working part time job at McDonalds. I have worked there for 2 years, and nowadays I started studying to be a manager.

I don't work, but I'm university student. I don't have a lot of experiences and good skills. Therefore, I want to make efforts to have good skills and experiences. First, in order to do them, I study foreign languages hard. For instance, I like to study English, but I'm not good at speaking English. I think speaking English is a good skill. So, these days I memorize English grammar or words. I can not speak English fluency yet, but I try to keep practicing it. Secondly, I hope to have experiences by meeting a kind of people. there are a lot of people in university. And people have different ideas. So, I absorb ideas from others, I want to learn good knowledge.

Since I am a student now, I have no professional experience or skills unless I get a job. However, I have had various experiences in my life. I have also been involved in activities such as swimming, learning English and calligraphy, participating in club activities, traveling to various places, participating in competitions and events. I would like to have various experiences from now on until I go out and work in society. And if possible, I would like to take an examination such as Eiken or TOEIC and obtain a qualification. I will think about various things from now on in order to become a necessary human resource in society.

I'm a university student, so I'm not working now. I belong to a foreign language department at university. I'm studying Chinese as a second foreign language as well as English. I just started studying Chinese and can only understand the basics. It's difficult to study Chinese, but it's very interesting. So when I get to work in the future, I want to get a job where I can make use of the foreign language I studied. I want to get a lot of knowledge at university and play an active role in work.