Having an interview in English. It's exciting, but at the same time
it makes you nervous, right?"
It's okay, it happens to all of us.
Welcome to this class.
In this class you are going to be watching an interview in English.
I will be interviewed and I will be answering
some challenging questions that you face in an interview.
Of course, this course isn't about interviews.
We actually have one that you can find in the resources section.
But the idea of this class is that you identify
those common and challenging questions and you know how you could answer them.
How is this going to work?
You will be practicing your listening skills.
In the resources section you are going to find a worksheet.
This worksheet will have the answers of this interview,
but there will be some missing information.
The idea is that you watch the interview and you complete this missing information.
It's okay if you don't get everything at first.
Remember that you can always go back and play the interview again.
Are you ready? Remember, don't continue,
don't move on to the next class if you haven't completed this task.
It's going to be fun. Download the worksheet
watch the interview and complete the missing information.
And I will see you in a bit.
-Hi, thanks for coming in today. How are you?
-I'm doing great, thanks for asking.
-Fantastic. I was taking a look at your LinkedIn profile
and I would like to ask you a few questions
to get this interview started. - Absolutely.
-Great. Can you tell me about your previous work experience?
-Sure. In my last job as a social media content creator in CodeCrush,
I gained extensive experience in creating
engaging and high quality content for various social media platforms such as
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
By the time I left the company,
I had grown the company's social media following by 50%
and had significantly increased engagement on all platforms.
Before I joined CodeCrush,
I had worked as a freelancer developing social media campaigns
for a wide variety of industries like fashion, travel, food and beverage.
Before I joined Platzi,
I had already honed my skills in creating visually appealing graphics
and writing copy that resonated with different target audiences.
-Great. Now, can you walk me through a project you recently worked on
and your role in that project?
-Yes. Recently,
I was given the opportunity to work on one of the biggest social media campaigns
to promote some of the newest courses in CodeCrush.
My role in the project was to create engaging and visually appealing content
that would promote the courses and drive traffic to the site.
I was responsible for creating a social media content calendar,
developing creative briefs for the graphic designers and photographers,
and producing content for Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
As part of the project,
I worked closely with the marketing team to ensure that the campaign's messaging
was consistent and aligned with the brand's values.
Overall, I am proud to say that the campaign was a huge success,
generating over 1 million organic impressions and
increasing the brand's social media following by 20%.
-Amazing. Could you tell me about something
you would have done differently in your previous job?
Yes. If I had known then what I know now,
I would have approached my work differently in certain situations.
For example, there was one project
where I was supposed to collaborate with a team of graphic designers.
But, I ended up taking too much of the workload myself.
The project took longer than it was supposed to,
and the end result wasn't as polished as it could have been.
Looking back on that experience,
I realize that I should have communicated more clearly
with the designers and established
more defined roles and responsibilities at the beginning of the project.
If I had done that, we would have worked more efficiently
and produced better quality work in a shorter amount of time.
Due to this experience and moving forward,
I've learned the importance of delegation and clear communication,
and I know that I can apply those lessons to future projects to ensure their success
-Thank you. Let's move on.
Have you ever convinced someone to change their mind,
or do something that they didn't want to do?
Yes, I have. For example,
I got my team members to use a new social media platform
that they were initially hesitant about.
I let them know how important it was for the growth of the company,
and I convinced them to try it out.
As a result, we were able to reach a new audience
and increase our social media following.
Thank you, Cesar. That's all the questions we have for you today.
Do you have any questions for me?
Yes. I wonder if you could tell me what the next steps are.
Are there any other interviews or assessments I should complete?
Thank you for that question.
We plan to make a decision within the next two weeks,
and we will notify all candidates via email.
There may be a final interview or an assessment stage for the top candidates,
but we will inform you if you progress to that stage.
Perfect. Thank you for your time today.
Welcome back. How did it go?
Did you get all the words? Let me know in the discussion panel.
It's okay if you didn't understand everything.
Or probably you got all the words, but you wonder, hmm,
I don't know why Cesar used this word here,
or how else could I use this word in an answer,
whether at an interview or in general.
Well, that's the point. Throughout this course
you will be able to use all the things that I said
in interviews and also at work in other contexts.
Keep the worksheet and this interview script and answers with you,
because these will be part of your project.
At the end of the course, remember,
you will have to record yourself and answer some questions,
and all this information that you saw in the interview will be very useful.
Let me know in the discussion panel,
how did you feel when you listened to this interview?
In the next class,
we are going to be learning how to use the past perfect
to talk about things that you did in the past.
And in the following classes, you will be learning much more,
the third conditional, and also how to use words like whoever, whatever, and so on.
I will see you next class.