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English for Professional Development

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Improve your English and become the professional of tomorrow

This course is designed for non-native English speakers who are interested in advancing their professional careers.
Take advantage of this opportunity to expand your vocabulary and improve your language skills to achieve your professional goals. You will learn to:

  • Communicate persuasively

  • Polish your resume

  • Create a cover letter

  • Master the interview process

  • Personalize your elevator pitch and professional social skills

  • Lead a meeting

  • Create professional proposals

  • Speak with confidence

  • Collaborate and network with others

  • Discuss and propose solutions

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Learning Journey

  • Vocabulary for the Career Development Process

  • Creating Your Profile

  • Choosing the Career that's Right for You

  • Key Skills for Career Development

  • Comparing and Contrasting the Career Development Process

  • Writing Your Resume

  • Specific Language for Resumes

  • Enhancing Your Resume

  • Finishing and Polishing Your Resume

  • Writing a Cover Letter

  • Writing Proposals

  • Language Focus: Tense and Time

  • Sharpening Your Language

  • Getting Started with Networking

  • Making Small Talk

  • All About the Elevator Pitch

  • Language Focus: Skills

  • Delivering an Elevator Pitch

  • Professional Settings: Meetings and Performance Reviews

  • Professional Settings: Interviews

  • Language Focus: Forming Questions

  • What is an Entrepreneur?

  • Why entrepreneurship?

  • Ideas, Products and Opportunities

Market Research:

  • Key steps

  • Organization and Creation of Surveys

  • Methods for data collection and analysis

How do you write a business plan?

  • Persuasive Business Writing

  • Product and Marketing

  • Pitching Your Plan

Meet Your Instructors

These instructors teach this course regularly. Please speak to your enrollment advisor if you wish to know who the current teacher is.

PEN Faculty Danielle Bergez
Danielle Bergez

Program Manager

PEN Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan

Language Specialist

PEN Eve Nora Litt
Eve Nora Litt

Language Specialist

Why University of Pennsylvania’s English Language Programs?

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is one of the world’s leading institutions. A member of the prestigious Ivy League in the United States, it is regularly ranked among the world’s Top 20 universities by Times Higher Education and QS.

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Why is it important to learn English?

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English is the language of international business

Global Competitiveness Report by World Economic Forum, 2022

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89% of job offers require knowledge of English

The Adecco Group, 2021

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Communicating in English is a key requirement for getting a job

World Bank Study, 2021

What our participants say

The program and course content were exceptional. I highly recommend these courses to individuals seeking to enhance their English proficiency for professional purposes.
Adriana Pérez Gallego
Talent & Development Director
This course has given me many valuable tools for the workplace, expanded my vocabulary, and raised my confidence when speaking with colleagues. I have been able to put my social networking knowledge i...
Claudia Carrillo

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