7. Identify for yourself the following:

1. What are you looking for: money, power, prestige, growth potential, other motivators?

2. How important are salary, environment, benefits, and job stability?

3. Do you enjoy working with people, information or things?

4. What is your idea of a perfect job, a perfect boss, a perfect colleague?

8. What is the difference in meaning between these words?

1. an employer/an employee

2. an interviewer/an interviewee

3. an application form/a CV

4. experience/qualifications

5. a salary/a bonus

6. a receptionist/a secretary

7. a company/a factory

8. a managing director/a sales rep.

9. Choose the correct alternatives:

1. Most of our employers/employees have been with the company since we started last year.

2. A good managing director/sales rep. knows how to listen to people and give them the products they need.

3. I'm afraid we need someone for this job with much more experience/qualifications.

4. It's very important that a good receptionist/ secretary should be welcoming to visitors.

5. If we reach our sales targets, we will get a 20 percent salary/bonus.

6. A good interviewer/interviewee knows how to ask good questions to find out about people.

7. I must fill out the application form/CV for that job at CoffeeCo. today.

10. Be able to answer the following questions:

1. What qualities make a good interviewer/ secretary/sales rep./managing director?

(communicative, polite, confident, enthusiastic, friendly, ambitious, punctual, loyal to the company, pleasant appearance, interested in people, sincere, patient, reliable, honest, sense of humour, nice voice)

2. What information should you include in a CV? What order should it be in?

3. What is a typical salary in your country for a secretary/a sales rep.?

4. Would you rather have a high salary and no bonus, or an average salary and possible bonuses?

5. When was the last time you were an interviewee? How did you feel?

11. Do you agree with the following statements? Why? Why not?

1. Companies should allow people to work flextime.

2. Businesses shouldn’t let people smoke in the workplace.

3. Businesses should allow workers to set their own salaries.

4. Companies shouldn’t make workers retire at sixty-five.

12. Complete the sentences by rearranging the letters in CAPITALS to form a word to do with work:

1. They've sent me an _________________ form. PLITACAIOPN

2. They want two written __________________ they suggest an employer and a teacher. EFEERRNCES

3. Well, they've invited me for an ______________ next week. Can I borrow your suit? ITEWRVNIE

4. His academic ________________ are good but he doesn't have any previous__________ . UALIIOFQCATISN / PEEERINCEX

5. Employers are interested in practical ________________ like word-processing and fluency in languages. SLKLS

6. The job offers a _________________ of £25,000 a year. SARAYL

7. Officially, she works thirty-five hours a week but sometimes with _______________ she does as many as fifty. VEOTIMRE

8. In Britain, the normal working week for _______________ -time employees is anything up to eighteen hours a week, while people working _____________-time do around thirty-eight hours. PATR/LULF

9. Now she works from home, she doesn't have to _______________ by train to and from London every day. CMMOTUE

13. Complete sentences 1-6 with endings a-f below.

If you take on a job or responsibility, especially a difficult one, you accept it.

If you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer.

If you fill in a form or other document requesting information, you write information in the spaces on it.

If you put something down somewhere, you write or type it there.

If workers are laid off, they are told by their employers to leave their job, usually because there is no more work for them to do.

If you set something up, you create or arrange it.

1. We generally take on extra staff... .....

2. She turned down the job offer ... .....

3. Should I fill in this form ... .....

4. Don't forget to put down ...

5. They are laying off 300 workers

6. She has set up her own ... .....

a ... the names of two referees.

b ... because there aren't enough orders.

c ... because it involved working shifts.

d ... import-export business.

e ... by hand or should it be typed?

f ... at Christmas when it's busy.

14. Complete the sentences with the words from the box below.

achievement, approach, get, good, know, learn, like, look, for motivates, offer, plan sort, strengths -tell, weaknesses, work

1. Tell ________ me about yourself.

2. Why should we ________ you the job?

3. What is your major ________?

4. What are you ________ at?

5. What ________ of person are you?

6. What are your ________ and ________?

7. What do you ________ about our organization?

8. How would you ________ this job?

9. How do you ________ things done?

10. What do you ________ in a manager?

11.What ________ you?

12. Do you like to ________ in a team or on your own?

13. What do you ________ best about your current job?

14. What did you ________ in your last job?

15.How long would you ________ to stay with this company?