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About the Course

Welcome to English for Career Development, a course created by the University of Pennsylvania, and funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs. To enroll in this course for free, click on “Enroll now” and then select "Full Course. No certificate." This course is designed for non-native English speakers who are interested in advancing their careers in the global marketplace. In this course, you will learn about the job search, application, and interview process in the United States, while comparing and contrasting the same process in your home country. This course will also give you the opportunity to explore your global career path, while building your vocabulary and improving your language skills to achieve your professional goals. The first unit in this course will introduce the U.S. job application process and provide strategies for identifying the jobs that match your interests and skills. Unit 2 will take you through the steps necessary to produce a professional-looking resume. In unit 3, you will work to develop a clear and concise cover letter. The final unit of the course focuses on networking and interview skills. Anyone may take this course for free. If you want to get a Coursera Verified Certificate for free, please fill out the Financial Aid form. Unless otherwise noted, all course materials are available for re-use, repurposing and free distribution under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license. Supplemental reading materials were provided by Newsela, which publishes daily news articles at a level that's just right for each English language learner....

Top reviews

EB

Jul 3, 2020

Thank you for letting us to use this opportunity at this pandemic situation.

I find this course has a lot example which is unstandable and illustration and so efficient for newcomer and job seeker.

R

Jul 20, 2020

AN EXCELLENT COURSE. THE TEACHERS ARE OUT STANDING. THERE IS A CLARITY OF THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION IN THE TEACHERS. EVERY ONE WHO IS SEARCHING FOR JOB SHOULD DO THIS COURSE. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEAM.

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By Jose R B L

Apr 19, 2019

Very Nice Program

By K V

Oct 21, 2019

Big thanks for work! It's really good course for those, who just started to learn English and tried to improve his skills in that area. But I expected a little more and put 3 stars just because of it. It will a bit boring for me to continue this course because it was too easy. So I failed deadlines. And when I reset it, all the weeks except the first have been blocked (I don't know clearly how it works, but I don't want to wait when other weeks will be open for executing. By the way when I started this course for the first time it had been completely open.)

By Learner

Jun 30, 2020

Course was generally good but there are some issues to be taken into consideration

1.the assessment tools in my mind should have been a little more demanding so as to get learners make bigger efforts.

2.There should be a criteria to evaluate the level of English language of learners. I have seen a lot of peers making mistakes in grammar for example

Overall I would like to say thank you very much for your time and efforts

By Barbara S

Mar 26, 2020

some questions in the middle of the videos refer to information still not yet mentioned. they should appear later in the video.

the speakers take too long to deliver, or perhaps and advanced level should be incorporated in this course.

some of the assignments are too easy and some of the questions could be more detailed, as well as the number of questions in each assignment.

By BEYEZA E

Apr 22, 2022

This is an interesting an programm it gives a light on self composion especially in regard to job searchers and candidates

my humble request if this could adjusted to video conferencing to have a presentation and more practice physically

Thank you

By Glory O

Jul 7, 2017

The course is great but I think the instructors talked too slow. I was bored most of the time, but I still learnt something.

By Sameera S H

Nov 25, 2020

It's good to complete career development course and I 'm looking forward to other courses which develop career & future

By Elvis S R

Nov 1, 2020

falta reforzar mas el ingles para el uso en el trabajo en si, casi todo el curso se dedico a un solo tema que era la búsqueda de trabajo pero no todos estamos en esa circunstancia.

By Howie Z

Dec 9, 2019

The course material is outdated; thus, the information and techniques might not be useful in reality.

By Janet H

Apr 19, 2021

Приложение для изучения языка в виде игры очень и очень далеко от совершенства. Хочу покинуть этот курс только из-за этого.

By JUAN J R T

Sep 2, 2019

no he podido entenderlo no me aporta nada

By Rafael

Mar 30, 2020

very basic

By Andre A

Sep 5, 2020

I am very happy and moved, thanking God for the opportunity to read, understand, learn and complete this course even though I face some difficulties with the language.

I am a fan of PEN's teaching methodologies and have dreams of being able to graduate from UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA and increase my qualification with an American teaching method.

I have huge dreams and that at the end of this course, I leave strengthened and motivated not to give up on my dreams because every day, I live a present that is still in the future but I am sure that it will be Mine soon.

To the teachers, tutors, congratulations for the clarity because in a simple and brilliant way, they provided me with an understanding of the highest quality and I believe that for all the participants, it is enough to see how successful it is because of the number of subscribers. I am there, in the midst of millions of participants and teachers, please receive my virtual hug here from Brazil and know:

Those who have the privilege of graduating from PEN, have no idea of the dimension that this simple act means to me.

I accept the challenges, I go in search of them !!

Andre Abrantes - Brazil - Specialist and Project Woner at TIM BRASIL -TELECON ITALIA

By Muhammad T K

Jan 7, 2024

This course is a comlete package of learning how to get job. Right from the published jobs,applying,writing resume and cover letter, all thesteps are taught in very learning and friendly way. THe teacher were intelligent, have knowledge about course contents. They guide us in very professional and learning way and we complete this corurse journey with success and peaceful environment. The course contents were outstanding and knowlegeable. The course assignments and assesments were scheduled and organised in a very professional way and we all course participants really enjyed this journey in a very interesting and educational way and completed and passed very easily. I really thanks a lot to my both the teacher give a tribute of love and respect to them. I love you, respect you with my heart strings. May God bless you always with good health, happiness and you teach the students always like this and soread the education all over the world. May God bless you alot. All other organisers and course management are also deserve love and respect. Best of luck.

By Vinay C

Mar 26, 2022

No matter the professional level, we can all benefit from learning how to succeed in our careers. Whether a well-seasoned professional, a management trainee, or a service level employee, this course will help you enrich your career by honing your professional behavior and networking. Through industry expert support and resources, this course is designed to prepare you for success in any chosen career. You will develop the habits and attitudes you need to perform effectively in the job market. You will identify a mentor to add value to your career. You will analyze your relationships and develop a practical approach for engaging your LinkedIn network. You will differentiate between networking and networking with intention. You will also discover the most effective ways to ask for help from your peer or professional group. Finally, you will evaluate the best methods of adjusting your career path at various stages of life. 

By Phuc T

Jun 11, 2020

English is my second language. But in this course, I have been learned a lot of things to improve my English and how to prepare well for looking for a new job. How to use the formal word and how to be confident for an interview and impression interviewer. It's really useful and needed for everyone like me. The teachers were amazing and guide me easy to understand all the units I have passed. I really appreciated it.

I really thankful for the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA to make a chance for everyone without America can easy to learn about some major from college and especially they can study online and free while people don't have time and finance.

Thanks for the generosity and helping me a lot to build my knowledge and experience.

Wishing the college will have more course in the future to help all student around the world add more knowledge and know-how is the best from American Education

By Buyandelger B

Oct 20, 2022

Teaching as my future career. When having graduated from high school, everyone wants to choose a suitable job for their future. Some people want to have a job which has high salary while the others want to choose a job which is famous. I myself want to be a teacher because of the following reasons. Firstly, teaching is a want to be a teacher, I will get the salary in every month though it is not very high. Therefore my life will not be affected by the change of economy. Secondly, teaching is the job which can be respected by everybody. In conclusion, being a teacher, I shall have a stable life, be respected, fulfill my childhoods dream and follow my patients step. Hope that I will be a good teaching in my future.

By Кузик А В

May 18, 2022

By completing your course I got all information needed for applying for the job. In some tasks, I needed to force myself to do them, but most tasks were fascinating to complete. Special thanks for the professional texts connected to the themes. I created all the documents needed to enter a job: resume, cover letter, learned how I can briefly introduce myself by an elevator speech, and how to act in the interview and answer the questions properly.

I liked the way the information was structured. The interesting thing was that I found checking my peers’ works fun for me, I enjoyed reading and helping on improving them. I would never find it entertaining to me, but thanks to this course I tried such kind of experience. I fully recommend completing this course!

By Franklin L P

Sep 26, 2019

I've most learned to take a course of online course.

how to apply a job in the market if how to formal performance while the interviewer and how to make a clearly resume and how to create if what to assign of parts of resume and how to create a good cover letter and how to fast making an cover letter and how to make a good elevator speech whether how to make to do it and I've learned that how to be a good applicant and also how to interview if what you move and how to prepared yourself and what in your saying during on interview. such mention this all i have learned to take this course of MOOC. Online Course is a great benefit for me because i have a lot learning of those module and i useful on everyday life and also works.

By Imran J

Feb 4, 2024

I am Muhammad Imran Junejo but my educational documents have only Imran Junejo. I found Coursera on LinkedIn where some of my connections were completing the skills courses on this platform. In the beginning, I did not take it seriously but as time passed I watched this platform on LinkedIn day by day and I took an interest in learning skills from this platform. In my view, Coursera is the best and most valuable online skills learning platform for beginners to advanced learners because Coursera has watch, read, game, and assignments to do the completion of the learning process. I am recommending and will recommend to my family members, friends, students and those who are hungry for skills learning.

By deepika e

Mar 18, 2022

This is my first online course I have taken and I think I really Enjoyed Learning with the experts. It was entertaining and knowledgable at tha same time. Moreover the Vast options of saving notes and downloading the videos really helped me to learn anywhere. Further more the one which really impressed me is the peer grading assigments. This particular option has helped me to be a excellent student and also a great teacher. I could learn many things from reviewing others assigments and I could also Improvise my answers with the help of the suggestion given by my equal. I feel so happy to have choosen this particular course which was a great insight for my career development.

By Rajib B

May 13, 2020

I am Rajib Barua from Bangladesh. This course is very contentful and interesting to learn. I have learned a lot of new things from this course which will be very beneficial to achieve my career goal in future. A lot of thanks and regards to honourable course teacher Mr. Brian McManus & Ms. Robyn Turner for your great effort to make this course very understanding, easy and exciting. As well as my regards to the University of Pennsylvania to provide a wonderful opportunity to learn and make me certified. All the best wishes to my teachers and friends who are supporting me to complete this course successfully. I am very interested to do a lot of courses offered in future as well.

By Hashmatullah K

Oct 1, 2020

First of all, taking this opportunity I would like to thank all the team best teachers, students, developers and operators for the best service and support,

actually, this course is very useful and i recommend to all the students and who wants to learn English and wants to improve the skills so once create the online user and join the course and study all the materials here,

specially i have learnt more and more about resume, cover letter, communications, networking, developments and a perfect way for the creation of best resume and how to convince the reader,

thank again for the support and appreciated all the team efforts.

Best Regards.

Hashmatullah Khalid

By Ushatikova O G

Apr 22, 2020

Thank You very much for the such a great course! The course helped me correct my previous mistakes and taught me how to write a resume and all supporting documents correctly. Acquired knowledge was applied immediately after passing each week and gaining new knowledge. As a result, already in the third week of training, I managed to send a resume, which was successfully reviewed, appointed and conducted an interview, which I also passed successfully using the tips and skills gained from this course. I express my deep gratitude to the University of Pennsylvania and course compilers! Also I'm recommend this course for all and wishing good luck!

By Lender G

May 1, 2020

Curso muy practico para aprender nuevas palabras relacionadas con la busqueda de trabajo, como comportarse en las entrevistas de trabajo, como responder las preguntas, que preguntas pueden hacer los entrevistadores en Estados Unidos, como realizar un resumen y una carta de presentacion enumerando nuestras habilidades y para que los empleadores las vean como un beneficio para sus compañias y asi vernos como unos trabajadores idóneos para el trabajo. Me gustaron mucho los videos ejemplos de entrevistas de la semana 5, fueron muy explicativos, entretenidos y divertidos. Espero hagan mas cursos de ingles referentes a otras areas. Saludos!