Professional profile summaries

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

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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 Massage therapist with 9 years of experience. I've started my training in Argentina with Ayurvedic massage. After that, I studied Massage therapy in Chile. Where I started to work in the Hotel and tourism industry as a massage therapist. Then I traveled to New Zealand where my first job was in a Chinese massage center, where I learned about this massage technique. After that, I decided to open my own studio of Massage where I complement all my previous studies to make a massage with my own stamp.

Well, I working in Airport. It's very seriously work on car. I'am studied in RGSU university, on faculty sociology. But don't found work by speciality

I am a teacher with 16 years' experience. I am a person who likes helping others and I am very patient. These two skills are really importatnt in teaching.

I worked as a consultant customer service in Fordeal in this job i learned how to work using CRM "customer relation management", i solved customer's problems from (French, Australia, England, Italy, Spain and Greece) such as: find and track their orders and Refund them according to Financial problems or for received items. Also i worked as an interpreter for French and English tourists in a Rest House.

In my work I help to the companies to manage Management Systems and improve their competitive. I'm a person that like to work in teams and for objectives, I try improve all the things in the companies and support.

I graduated in Letters Portuguese-Arabic. I currently do not working this training. I am selling coffee. This is very nice and rewarding for me

I graduated University at 1998, so I have been worked for my government over 20 years that I have an experience of construction. I really love my job because it offers me a high salary. On the other hand, it helped me to open my knowledge to understand the property. This is the reason why I succeed today. Beside that, I can predict what it happen in the next time.

Today I work as a specialist in project management of a construction company. I deal with the project`s structure. I have a Master degree of Civil Engineering and now I am a postgraduate student of Hydraulic Engineering. My work is not very close to my education, but my studies and work complement each other in a harmonious way.

I am still Student of BS Computer science. I have little bit experience of job on internet and as a home tutor last 3 years. And Still providing service of Home tutor. I am Good in mathematics.

I am still a student at Eskişehir Anadolu University. I study hard throughout the year. I am very a good listener,I can listen to people and everything they say. I spend my time watch football, read books or play mobile games in my free time