Help for a job interview - 2 Why did you leave your previous job? I resigned from IBM because I had a dream and that dream was to open a bookshop. I think books, any kind of books, are so useful to keep our mind open . I knew, it was not easy, form a business point of view, to run a little bookshop especially here in Italy where people don't read so much and where commercial taxes are very high. And also, It hasn't been so easy to decide to stop a really good IBM career. Anyway, I did it and it has been good. About the last Company I worked for, I was hired with a temporary contract and unfortunately because of the bad economy here in Italy they couldn't give me a permanent contract. This is the reason why, after that, I decided to learn English. I knew, or I hope, I could find a new job opportunity abroad. I have been learning English by myself for the last months, using a lot of tools, from grammar books to applications like Babbel and Mosalingua (Android applications), films, reading books and so on… And I said before, I did some wwoofing experience in England. 3 times in some organic farm near Colchester, one near Oxford and another near Birmingham. This is my first application I sent abroad. I would like to work for an international company in an English-speaking country where I can find also room to grow What Did You Like or Dislike About Your Previous Job? I had the lucky to work always in a good environment with good people. I enjoyed the people I worked with. It was a friendly and fun atmosphere and I actually enjoyed going into work each morning. I wouldn't say that there were not sometimes problems inside the organizations I worked for, I know, life, in all her aspect, can't be always positive, but in front to a problem, I always have a positive approach to it. I think all problems can be solved.

Answer to a job interview question - 1 Can you tell me your previous job experience, please? As I said before, I worked for different IT Companies. The most important was IBM. It was a very good experience. I learnt a lot in IBM and gained a lot of experience. It was challenging and rewarding, In the first years, I worked in the IBM Customer Support Center to solve customer problems through phone and email and sometimes also face to face. After that I took a more senior positions from Software analyst to IT Specialist until IT architect. I really appreciated my IBM years, which gave me the opportunity to acquire a lot of skills and experiences in many different areas always in contact with customers, mainly big banks and insurances, and with a lot of colleagues. It has been a wonderful experience also running my own bookshop for 7 years. Then I joined a small and more local IBM Business Partner Company where I worked as a Consultant System Engineer. It has been a good experience, too. Different from IBM because in this case I was working with small customers. The big difference between the two, it was to work for big projects with many people involved against small projects where, sometimes, I was the only one working on the project itself. Last, I loved the wwoofing (WWOOF) experience in England where I met people with different culture but also different food and weather.

During weekend Last Friday night I went out with some friends to watch a film. The film was "Exodus", a story about Mose's life taken from the Bible. It was a very interesting film. After that, we went to a bar to drink something and to chat. On Saturday I met my relatives at my sister's home to celebrate my niece's birthday. We had lunch all together and my niece was very happy about all the presents she received. At around 4 p.m. I left my relatives to meet some others friends in the outskirt of Milano. We went to see "American sniper". I love Clint Eastwood as a director. The film is quite strong but very realistic. After that we went to eat pizza and to drink a beer at a Pizzeria. I came back home after midnight.

The Secret Garden Mary Lennox was spoilt, rude and had a bad temper. She was often ill and had a sad face. She live in India with her mother and father. Her father was always busy with his work and her mother was a a beautiful woman who loved parties and was not interested in her small daughter. Mary was left in the care of an Indian nanny. Her nanny allow Mary to do anything she wanted. So Mary soon became a spoilt and unpleasant girl. When Mary was nine years old, she woke up on a hot morning. She felt angry because noone came to bring her food or to dress her. The house was silent. Suddenly, the door opened and two Englishman came in. Mary said " Where is my nanny? Where is everyone?" "Poor little girl" said one of the Englishman "I'm really sorry, but your parents are dead and the servants are dead too because of a terrible disease". So Mary understood that she was completely alone now. Becasue there was noone to look after her in India, she was sent to England to live with her uncle in Yorkshire. Mary meet Mrs. Medlock, her uncle's housekeeper, in London. She didn't like her but this was not strange because Mary didn't like anyone at all. During the travel to the uncle's house, Mrs. Medlock told Mary about the house where she was going to live. It was a very big house in the edge of a moor. When they arrived to the house, a butler opend a haevy wooden door. Mrs. Medlock take Mary, along many corridors, to a room with a fire burning in it and some food on a table. "This room and the next one is where you are going to stay. You can't go anywhere in the other parts of the house. Dont' forget that".said Mrs. Medlock. Mary asks "Why I can't go in the other parts of the house?" "Don't ask questions and do what I told you. Your uncle is not interested in you, he has a crooked back and he is often away. He was an unpleasant youg man until he got married. His wife was a pretty and nice woman, but she died so now your uncle is even stranger and sad". Mary Lennox felt very lonely.

Introduction to myself and request Hello My name's Pierluigi. I live in Italy. I love English language and my really intention is to learn English language in a very good way. I've been learning English since last year on April. I started studying English using a grammar book. This for figure out the most important grammar rules. I started also using Babbel. With Babbel I did also about ten web courses from A1 to B1 English level. Again using Babbel ( and also MosaLingua) I've learnt until now more or less 5.000 thousand English words. Last year I had also some English experience doing wwoofing in England ( if you don't know what it is wwoofing , please look at http://www.wwoof.org.uk/ ). On the end of September I'm going to start here in Italy a conversational course for some months. At the moment, my English comprehension is quite good. I've got more difficult in writing and speaking. Just some days ago I discovered Italki.com. Probably I've got intention to try tutoring with some English teacher to improve my conversation and pronunciation, but also it will be good for me also to find someone I can write with ( like a pen pal). So, I'm looking for a english person from UK who are interested with. Ideally an English person who are learning Italian so we can help each others. Many thanks. Pierluigi