Changing Careers

Changing Careers

Quitting your job can be scary, but sometimes it’s the best thing you can do for your career, says entrepreneur Chieh Huang. In this lesson, we’ll watch and discuss a talk in which he shares how to know when it’s time to move on — and what can you do to prepare.

Chieh is cofounder and CEO of Boxed.com, a company that’s disrupting the wholesale shopping club experience. Started in his garage in 2013, Boxed now has hundreds of employees in facilities all over the United States. Since the garage, the company has sold hundreds of millions of dollars of products and has raised over a quarter billion dollars in funding. Forbes named Boxed one of the next “billion-dollar startups.”

Huang’s personal honors include being named to “Bloomberg 50,” Bloomberg Businessweek’s 50 people to watch in 2018, to National Retail Federation’s list of “People Shaping Retail’s Future,” as one of Crain’s “40 Under 40” and Goldman Sachs’s list of “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.” In addition, Entrepreneur magazine included Chieh on their list of “The 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs.”

This lesson will prepare you for an advanced level Business English conversation. You’ll practice listening to and understanding key concepts as expressed by a native speaker. You’ll also learn, practice and master key vocabulary that will help you to build fluency and to express yourself with greater nuance and confidence.

You’ll also have an opportunity to join in a special live event, an Advanced Business English Roundtable Discussion, hosted and guided by Kenny, an American business trainer with more than 30 years of experience.