Speaking Sample — Bản thân

BAI MAU — DET Speaking Sample (Chu de ca nhan, 90 giay) FORMAT: 30 giay chuan bi + 90 giay noi. Khong co gach dau dong nhu IELTS. BAI MAU (de: "Describe a decision you made recently that you are happy with"): I'd like to talk about a decision I made about eight months ago to start waking up at six-thirty instead of eight o'clock on weekday mornings. It sounds minor, but the background is that I'd been feeling like I never had enough time for the things I actually wanted to do — exercise, reading, just thinking without an agenda. Everything was getting squeezed into evenings, when I was already tired and less focused. The decision was to shift my schedule rather than try to find extra time within it. I moved my alarm back by ninety minutes and committed to keeping that schedule for one month before evaluating. What I'm happy about isn't really the waking up early itself — that part still requires effort — but what it gave me. I now have two hours in the morning that are genuinely mine, before the day starts making demands. My thinking feels clearer and I'm considerably less rushed than I used to be. Looking back, I think the reason the decision worked was that I framed it as an experiment rather than a permanent commitment. That made it easier to start, and by the time the month was up, I didn't want to go back. BAI MAU 2 (de: "Talk about a skill you would like to learn in the next year"): The skill I'd most like to develop in the next year is data visualisation — the ability to communicate numbers through charts and graphics in ways that people can understand quickly. My reason is practical: I work in analysis, and I've noticed that the quality of a finding matters much less than how it's presented. I can produce a technically correct analysis and have it ignored, or present something simpler in a clear visual and have it immediately acted on. That gap between quality and persuasion bothers me. What I plan to do is work through a specific course on Tableau or similar tools over the next six months, then apply what I've learned on real projects at work. I find learning is much more effective when there's a real application waiting — it creates a reason to actually understand rather than just complete the exercises. I'm not sure I'll master it fully in a year. But I think I can reach a point where I'm producing things I'm actually satisfied with, which is a reasonable goal.