Full English assessment
The assessment I use with new clients, from A2 to C2. Get a preliminary score and every mistake straight away; I grade your speaking and writing in a free meeting.
Guides
Free guides for your next career move
I write these for people in tech who interview and work at international companies. Read every guide here for free. The last part of each, usually the phrases or the checklist, unlocks when you enter your name and email, which also gets you the PDF. The assessments show your results as soon as you enter your name and email.
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Free assessments
See where you stand
Three interactive assessments built from the ones I use with clients, and a 5 to 10 minute Mini English test. Enter your name and email at the end to see your full results; the three assessments also give you a PDF report.
Soft-skills gap assessment
Rate what you do in meetings, feedback, stakeholder conversations and more, and see the three areas to work on first, with a target behaviour for each.
Career assessment and interview prep
Work out where you’re going, write your positioning statement and PAR stories, time your pitch, and score how ready you are for interviews.
How good is your English for work in tech?
Grammar at work, business and tech vocabulary, reading and professional tone. See your estimated level straight away; enter your name and email to see every mistake and get the full result by email.
Interviews and job search
Interview questions and how to answer them with PAR
How an interview loop works, a Hook formula for “Tell me about yourself”, PAR stories for behavioral questions, motivation and salary questions, and the language habits that cost non-native candidates offers.
Google interview prep: Googleyness and behavioral questions
What Google says it looks for, Googleyness decoded, PAR + Learning answers with worked examples, a story matrix covering 29 common questions, and a seven-day practice plan.
Amazon interview prep: Leadership Principles and PAR answers
What each of the 16 Leadership Principles checks, how Amazon’s loop and Bar Raiser work, PAR answers with worked examples, and a story bank that covers the whole loop.
The 2026 Job Search Playbook
CV and LinkedIn checklists for 2026, tailoring your CV to every job with AI, the job boards and freelance platforms worth your time, how to write to recruiters and hiring managers directly, and networking when you’re starting from zero.
Communication at work
Speaking up in meetings in English
How to prepare, get into the conversation early, interrupt politely, ask when you don’t follow and run a meeting, with phrases for every part of it.
Tech presentations and demos in English
Start with the answer, three structures that work, translating metrics for non-technical listeners, signposting, demos and Q&A.
How to disagree in English without sounding rude or weak
Why your normal can sound rude, reading British and American softeners, critical feedback, pushing back and saying no.
Speaking to senior stakeholders in English
Bottom line up front, status updates, escalating without blame and handling the questions you can’t answer.
Career, communication and leadership guides
Read each guide free. The last part and the PDF unlock with your name and email.
Build your promotion case as a software engineer
Find out what the next level asks for, collect evidence while you work, make it visible without bragging and ask for the promotion in a way your manager can take to the committee.
Salary negotiation in English: what to say, when and how
How to answer the salary question, research a number you can defend, make the counter in two sentences and respond when they say no, with the exact phrases to use.
Technical interviews in English: think out loud, clarify and recover
What to say before, during and after you code: clarifying questions, thinking out loud, explaining trade-offs, saying code and Big-O aloud, and what to do when you get stuck.
Explain your own work when AI helped build the project
Interviewers now ask how you used AI. Show what you decided, checked and owned, tell it as a clear story, and answer the follow-up questions without underselling or overselling yourself.
From technical expert to strategic leader
How to translate technical work into business impact, bring options instead of problems, make trade-offs explicit and give senior people a recommendation they can decide on.
Small talk and professional relationships in English
How to open a call, keep a conversation going without running out of things to say, choose safe topics, follow up and build relationships with colleagues and clients you rarely see in person.
Turn your side project into a business
How to talk to customers so they tell you the truth, find your first ten users by hand, ask for money early and write a page that explains what you sell, in English, while you still have a day job.
Sales for technical experts: from proposal to signed contract
Why good technical proposals don’t get signed, and what to do about it: discovery questions, value instead of features, a clear next step every time, objections and the follow-up email, in English.
Your first sales manager role after technical work
How to move from closing deals yourself to building a team that closes them: the first 30 days, a pipeline everyone understands, coaching one behaviour at a time, and the difficult conversations, in English.
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