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Strengths

Signature Strengths

 

  • Adult Learning & Development

  • Curriculum Design & Development

 

 

  • One-on-One or Group Coaching

  • Corporate Training Services

  • Cross-functional Team Collaboration

  • Sales & Marketing Management

Executive Highlights

 

Founder, Executive Director and Owner of Globeskills Academy for Business and Languages

Lead Project Manager of customised language training programmes catering to small and large-scale corporations across Asia-Japan, Singapore, Korea and China  |  Co-founded Wong Jie Collage in Batam, Indonesia in 2005
 

 

20+ years of Professorship in English at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

Current Head of Language Program targeting Asian  students for European Tertiary Education

 

 

Previous Chair of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) section of TESOL America

One of the world’s largest professional organisations of language teachers and professionals

 

 

Keynote Speaker & Presenter at international Conferences

CULI-LITO Conference (Thailand)

Redesigning Pedagogy (Singapore)

TESOL Arabia & USA

Keynote Speaker at International ESP conference (Taiwan)

 

 

Co-authored “Inexpensive, effective, ESP Material Development for the EFL Classroom”

(Jochum, O.; Hoffland, M. in Rilling, S. et. al eds.; Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Adult Learners; TESOL Classroom Practice Series, Maryland, 2009.)

 

Executive Highlights

Education

Education

Dr. (PhD)

English/Communications/Social Psychology Specialist

Universitat Klagenfurt

2000

 

 

MA (Master of Arts)

Cultural Studies/Applied Linguistics Specialist,

University of Sussex (England)

1995–1996

 

 

Mag. phil (MA)

Study of Applied Linguistics/English/Literature

Klagenfurt/Anglia-Polytechnic University (Cambridge, England)

1988–1994

 

 

Study of American Culture/Communications

University of Richmond (Virginia, United States)

1986–1988

 

 

Graduated from Austrian Secondary School
Matura (Bundeshandelsakademie Villach)

1986

 

 

Graduated from US-American High School

Lincoln High (Kansas, United States)

1985

 

Career

Independent Communication and Language Consultant & Trainer (English/German)

Philippines/Austria

2015 - Present

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Carinthia university of applied sciences (CUAS)

Professorship of English 

Villach (Austria)

2001–Present

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Globeskills - International Academy for Business & Languages

Managing Director | Founder | Director of Studies

Villach (Austria)
1998–2020

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Head | German Language & Culture Program

Villach (Austria)

 2008–2016

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Pedagogical university

Lecturer/Facilitator for Teachers of English

Austria

2008–Present

 

 

Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt

Coach & Consultant

Klagenfurt (Austria)

2010–2018

 

 

Various companies

Language Trainer | Facilitator | Curriculum Developer

Austria

2000–Present

 

 

 

 

Selected Previous Positions

 

Lecturer/Facilitator (English for ‘European Assistants–Summer), SFA, Cambridge, 2001

Language Lecturer, University of Southampton, 1996–1998

Cameraman & Reporter, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), 1988–1993

Intern, WWBT (Channel 12) TV Station, Virginia, USA, 1988

Career Narratives

For more detailed information you can download my CV:

 

Dr. Oswald Jochum, MA

 

 

 

 

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