IELTS Speaking Practice Test- Perfect Band 9

IELTS Speaking Practice Test- Perfect Band 9

This video offers you a glimpse into the process of achieving an impeccable Band 9 in the IELTS Speaking section.

I will conduct a full mock IELTS Speaking test with an outstanding student who flawlessly exhibits the skills required for Band 9. The test covers all three sections - Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Speaking exam. The student's performance in this video is an excellent example of what you need to aim for to score high in the test.

You will witness the student's proficiency as she gives outstanding responses, demonstrating exceptional coherence, fluency, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, the four key marking criteria in the test. This video is a practical tool that can provide invaluable insights into your preparation for the IELTS Speaking exam.

This video is a targeted tool that aims to boost your confidence, offer practice, and provide a clear picture of an exceptional IELTS Speaking test performance.

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so let's start off by talking about food
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what's your favorite food um I really
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love Asian food because I live in
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England so it's harder to get Asian food
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around but I like spicy flavorful and
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like just generally Savory food do you
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cook a lot at home not as much as I
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would like to I would love to cook more
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because I actually enjoy the process of
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cooking but I just cook out of
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convenience and like cuz um every day
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I've got to you know make sure I get my
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work done and then cook for my kids
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which um takes a lot of time sometimes
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we get takeway but they like it you know
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what are popular takeaway meals in your
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local area fish and chips it's a
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favorite we everyone so you know that's
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an easy option but um generally because
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of my own preference I love you know
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just to get Thai and Vietnamese you know
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this is something that I could you know
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just get around my local area it's very
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easily sourced hi off do you eat fast
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food I try to eat really healthily but
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then I tend to go down the filo fish
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McDonald's uh route when I'm traveling
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so I suppose I only eat once every few
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months now let's talk about seasons of
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the Year what's your favorite season of
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the year well um I love anytime when the
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Sun starts to come out so around spring
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or early summer before it gets too hot
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you know I just love a little bit of
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vitamin D and it makes me happy happier
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as well so that is um definitely better
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than the winter what do you do when it
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gets too hot in the summer hide I tend
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to also you know go into any kind of
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buildings with air conditioning and I
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have to fan on every night when it's
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really hot so yeah when it gets really
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hot in the summer you know I really need
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a lot of like fans and you know kind of
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just anything I can hold with me when
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I'm go out as well at what time of year
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do you normally go on holiday I try to
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go at outside of the um School holiday
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season but because I have kids you know
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we tend to have to go doing you know the
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the you know when when when this term
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breaks you know when the school breaks
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but um my favorite time of going away
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would be during Christmas you know cuz
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um I much prefer to be in a warmer
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climate when it's really really cold so
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yeah it's just that time before or after
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Christmas have you ever been on holiday
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somewhere very cold yes I love
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Norway you know it it was um amazing it
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was just everything was like a picture
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perfect postcard you know you could see
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the Fiats in the distance and the what
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you call them
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icebergs um it was an experience you
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know and to to to write the husky sled
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you know was also an amazing experience
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for me now let's talk about clothes
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where do you buy most of your clothes I
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would like to do you know clothes
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shopping
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in the shop but the reality is most of
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us do it online now you know and I um
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get my clothes from Zara and Asos
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because I just love the hip and trendy
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but also Timeless look how often do you
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buy clothes for yourself I buy it more
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often than I should because I use online
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shopping and cloth shopping as a form of
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you know like dopamin H for me so it's
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it's um for me I I love to express
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myself through my clothes so
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um because of that then I need to find
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different clothes for different occasion
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and so very often have you always had
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the same taste in clothes no I have not
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um cuz I see myself as um different
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identities throughout my life you know
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before I became a mom during and then
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also after when work became something
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that I could express myself you know
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true so yeah i' I've had different
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fashion tastes you know throughout the
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ages now let's talk about social media
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Which social media sites do you use I
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use uh Instagram and LinkedIn because I
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feel like um I run a business and that's
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where my target audience are you know I
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built a community Through Instagram and
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then on LinkedIn where I work on my
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businessto business um leads how much
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time do you spend on social media way
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too much I shouldn't be spending so much
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time but I find that it is um once you
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visit you know social media and you post
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something is also about engaging with
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people to ensure that you know you build
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relationships so yeah a couple of hours
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a day is there anything you dislike
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about social media I dislike The
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Addictive quality about it you know
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because so many of us are connected you
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know through a tablet or a device now
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and social media is our form of
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communication so it's becoming even
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though it seems like you're being
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connected to loads and loads of people
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the actual quality of your relationship
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with your immediate sphere you know kind
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of you know kind of Falls by the side so
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yeah that's one bad side to it that's
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the end of part one of the speaking test
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so now we're going to move on to part
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two of the speaking test I'm going to
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give you a q card you'll have one minute
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to read the Q card and prepare your
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answer feel free to make any notes
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during that one minute at the end of the
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one minute I'll let you know and I'll
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ask you to speak for up to two minutes
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is that all clear of course okay here is
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your Q
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card and I'll start the one minute
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preparation time here's a pan if you
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want to make any notes
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so please speak for up to two minutes on
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this topic please okay so a job that I
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really enjoyed is being a speaker and a
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Storyteller and I love doing this job
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now because when I was growing up I love
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writing little stories and you know just
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connecting with people and having
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conversations but I never thought that I
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could become a speaker one day um I
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started my career you know in stem and
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then ventured through 16 different
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Industries cuz I didn't really know
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where in the world of work I fitted into
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it but eventually I realized that all
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this became really useful for me to gain
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all the skills that I needed you know in
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communication and brought it all
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together in a field that I was deeply
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passionate about that allowed me to
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channel what I really love about my work
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and a topic that I love you know to make
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a difference in people's lives being a
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speaker is the perfect place to do this
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because you could influence people's
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thoughts and Inspire positivity in
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people's lives which is something that
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you could do in other places but the
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impact is so much more
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immediate and you are affecting people
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in such a big way and affecting a bigger
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audience as well whilst you're doing it
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and this is something that I'm very
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lucky to be able to do now and and I
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don't take it for granted and know that
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the journey for me to get here has been
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really long but um I'm deeply grateful
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for being given this
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opportunity and why I like it also is
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that to be able to connect with people
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in in a topic that so personal about
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mental health and well-being you know
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where in some way or other you know
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we're all struggling um in
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life thank you very much that's the end
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of the two minut you I could have gone
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on so now we're going to move on to part
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three of the speaking test and we're
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going to continue to talk about careers
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what factors do you think are important
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when choosing a career I think it's
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really really important that we are
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interested in what we're doing and
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because if you're not interested then it
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is there's absolutely no chance that
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you're going to be able to have
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longevity in that career we should also
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choose an industry where there's a
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potential for you to really grow within
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that industry because as we're moving
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now into the future of work you know
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technology is very quickly replacing
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people you know especially with
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artificial intelligence it's threatening
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a lot of jobs like writing and
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recruiting and connecting you know with
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with people so we need to look at how
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you know the industry that you're going
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into has got the potential to go beyond
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that you know technological Capa
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capacity what can you bring as a human
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you know that no technology or anyone
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could replace you you know if you were
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to go into it why do you think some
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people fail in some careers I think one
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of the main drivers I think for for
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people is money and when you do anything
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solely because of money then it will
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never work the reason people fail I
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think
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the biggest reason is because they have
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failed to align their identity with
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their work because we spend a third of
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Our Lives you know in work so a very big
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proportion of it you know needs to feel
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fulfilled and it can only be fulfilled
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if you're you understand you know what
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what you like authentically inside you
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know and and then you know go into a
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career but then the reality is that most
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people then you know jump in and figure
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it out explore and then we'll work it
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out you know in hindsight I guess that's
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what life's about now let's talk about
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working from home in the future do you
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think most people will work from home I
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think it just it definitely seems that
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way anyway you know after the pandemic
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you know hybrid working is becoming more
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common and a lot of organizations are
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offering fully remote working now which
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a lot of people like but there are also
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people who like human interactions like
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connections you know people who live by
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themselves or you know just need some
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accountability so being among people
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could be a good thing but I think if
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technology would to replace you know a
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lot of the work you know then people
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would actually eventually do more remote
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work and finally what are the
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disadvantages of working from home well
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I guess it's the disconnection you know
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from from people but also not getting
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accountability for your work CU I think
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working from home requires us to have
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some a sense of agency you know and some
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a level of organization which um some
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people might not have so we're dealing
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with different personalities here and I
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think if we were to ask people what they
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prefer then there's a better chance you
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know for like either remote or not not
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remote work to work that's the end of
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the speaking test Well Done Right I hope
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you enjoyed that band n performance what
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you should do now is watch one of these
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