Online Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

brown-noser/teacher’s pet: ma pi jing

I want to make myself more native-speaking.
I want to make my speech more native.

Hey everyone let’s give everybody a few more minutes (for more people to join us)? Then we can get started.
We have a very XXX agenda?/on a very tight schedule today. So, without further ado …
Hello everyone! And welcome to the Fireside Chat session! I know it’s pretty early and I appreciate your attendance!/so thank you all for being here./attending…
I’m really thrilled to be hosting today’s session. In case you don’t know me, / So hi, I’m Natalie and I’m currently in the GRCN direct team as a key account manager. Today we’ve invited Ayaka to be our speaker to share with us her career journey. A huge thanks to Akmal (uk mul) for organizing this session for us, which I’m really looking forward to!
I believe that we’ll all find today’s chat quite useful. As we’ll:
Firstly, understand different opportunities that may present themselves throughout our career journey and growth path.
Secondly, have access to senior GCS members for open communication and X-team learning
Okay, moving on to today’s agenda:
We’ll have Arlene to come and kick us off.
Then our speaker Ayaka will introduce herself and share her story with us.
After that we’ll run the panel discussion and a live Q&A
Cool! So, Arlene, now over to you. Thanks a lot!
Thanks Arlene for the encouragement! That was a really inspiring talk and thank you so much for joining us today! Ok so now, it’s time for Ayaka, would you like to take the floor?
Thanks Ayaka for sharing your career journey with us! I, too, came to Google by networking! So I honestly believe that being proactive is the key to success!
Now we’re moving to the dory. Thanks to you guys who have proposed your questions on the dory. (We’ll do the first 5 of them, and for the rest, we can do them during the live Q&A). Ok great, Max, would you like to ask the first question?
Okay, the second question is from Emily. Ben are you online?
Thanks everyone! Let’s go to the live Q&A / “kyoo wan nay”. If anyone has any questions for Ayaka, please unmute yourself. （I wanna ask a question!）
【Potential questions】 :
To start this discussion today, please share with us your top career turning moment ?
Most of the team is new to google, new to the corporate environment, what advice would you give them when starting out at Google?
How did you overcome the imposter syndrome as you joined and worked in this talent heavy company ?
Top advice you have received in your career journey ?
[Optional to share] What is the biggest setback you’ve faced in your career and how did you navigate that ?
Sorry as we’re running out of time / as we’ve only blocked out 1 hour, we only have time for 1 more question. Okay, that’s about all we have time for / that’s all for today. I hope all of you have learnt sth from Ayaka! A special thanks to Ayaka, Arlene, and Akmal! And I’ll see all of you in the next fireside chat session which will be on January 6th，and we’ll have Shaochun with us for that one! Stay tuned and have a good one!
One last thing, please don’t forget to give us your feedback! I’ll send out the survey later. See you guys!

Pronunciation

run – short and direct, not round

nervous – nervis