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Perfect Phrases for ESL: Advancing Your Career has been created for intermediate and advanced level English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) learners already inor planning to be inthe workforce in the United States. If you are presently employed, you will find that you always need to refine and improve your skillssince the one constant of the business world is change! This book helps you reinforce the skills you have in order to be more valuable to your employerin such areas as communicating with colleagues, leading meetings and teams, making presentations, representing your company, or supervising others.

And if you are presently employed, you may be applying for other work within your company. The position you are applying for may be a step up the ladder in the department in which you now work, or it may be a lateral move to another department within your company. Conversely, you may feel that you have reached the highest level you can in your present company. Therefore, you may want to consider a job search in other corporate or industrial settings. Another possibility you may be thinking about is to try to start your own business. Whatever the scenario, your ability to communicate confidently will be crucial.

Whatever your choice is in the world of work, the phrases in this book will be of help to you. You may take the phrases as they are presented and memorize them for use, or you may make changes to them to fit your own situation and put them in your own words for practice. You might also adapt the phrases to other conditions and situations. You could also benefit from the use of these phrases in other areas of your life. Your confidence in using American English in job- and job-search-related situations will increase as you practice by yourself, with friends and colleagues, and finally taking it on the road in real work-related areas such as interviews, meetings, and dealing with conflicts.

You may already have read Perfect Phrases for ESL: Everyday Business Life, the first Perfect Phrases book developed for the English as a second language audience by McGraw-Hill Professional. Perfect Phrases for ESL: Advancing Your Career may be used as a companion text to that book, but it also stands alone. The phrases and the situations in which to utilize them are different in each volume. Look over the table of contents for each book to determine which one meets your needsor perhaps both books will have phrases you find useful.

Perfect Phrases for ESL: Advancing Your Career is presented in five parts that focus on different areas of career development, with each part containing four or five chapters. You may choose to start at the beginning of the book and read through to the end. This is an especially good method if you are not yet seeking employment or are preparing to come to the United States for prearranged employment. This enables you to bone up on the idioms and vocabulary as well as get a flavor of some aspects of business in the United States.

The beginning-to-end method also works well if you have been working in the United States and are about to embark on a new job search campaign, whether inside your present company or in a