Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 5:12:51 GMT
The ability to overcome challenges has defined the life and professional career of Nelson Alejandro Aguayo, an Electronic Civil Engineer who, today, is a software architecture leader at Onikom México . Specifically, he has been assigned a corporate portal migration project for the company Avangrid Inc. and leads a work team whose members reside in different countries. For this reason, he performs his duties remotely from Santiago, Chile, although he spends some periods in Connecticut, United States, where his company has its headquarters. However, to get to where he is today, he has previously had to face job opportunities that required a higher level of English than he had . For this reason, Nelson Alejandro Aguayo opted to enhance his linguistic skills in this language and participated in a previous call for the Santander Course | English to Boost your Career , from Banco Santander in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania.
Below, in this interview, he explains to us how this training has been decisive in achieving his objectives . Among them, a new job responsibility. CTA Esade You have always been presented with challenges that have motivated you to learn English... That's how it is. Already in 2000, I began my professional career in a project carried out in collaboration with Microsoft, but, after seven years working with this multinational's technologies, I decided to make a shift to Europe Mobile Number List Liferay , despite my ignorance of the platform and the complexity. development of this portal . This was the first work situation that confronted me with the need to improve my low level of English: I had to study documentation on new technologies that were not translated into Spanish . At this point, I decided to become more proficient in the language with some training. However, in 2010, when trying to find employment in various North American companies with a presence in Chile, I realized that the English acquired was still insufficient, since I could not pass the last interview due to my knowledge of English.
My interlocutors were from different parts of North America, so each one had a different accent , and understanding them was difficult for me. Therefore, I studied this language again and, upon finishing this second training, I gained enough confidence to be able to maintain a fluent conversation with native English speakers. And then, why did you decide to participate in this Santander Open Academy call to improve your level of English? Months later, a position came up in the company in Brazil, I passed the interviews and began the adventure of becoming an expert at Liferay, which meant having to also learn Portuguese and start an MBA. However, during the pandemic, a restructuring occurred and I became directly dependent on the United States , so I had video conferences several times a week. In this sense, although I could hold conversations, after so many years speaking in Portuguese, my level of English had worsened and this became, once again, an obstacle. To what extent has this experience helped you achieve your goal of being able to speak English professionally? It has been decisive. I have gained confidence in my oral and written English.