- •What is corporate culture? What is meant by academic and non-academic approach?
- •How does company culture affect employees?
- •What problems can interns experience with work placement? How can companies help interns to adapt to their work culture and achieve work-life balance?
- •What is the organigram of the company? What types of company hierarchy are known?
- •5. 1) What departments are essential for the existence of the company?
- •2) What makes a good manager?
- •6. What kind of personal problems can interns or employees experience when working abroad?
- •7. What is counseling? What counseling techniques do you know?
- •8. What do customer service and customer support refer to? (s.B #2)
- •9. What are ‘performance standards’ in customer service? Speak about ‘golden rules of customer service’? (s. B. #2)
- •10. What is a call centre? (интернет)
- •11. What is outsourcing?
- •12. Does complaining help companies to improve its performance? If so, how? How to deal with complaints? (s. B. #2)
- •13. How can companies ensure job satisfaction for their staff? Speak about quality of working life, perks and promotion prospects? (listening страница 18 №6)
- •14. What are the terms when marketing can be approached? Speak about marketing mix.
- •15. What factors influence the developing of a new product?
- •16.What are the main stages in product development and designing?
- •17.What is a cross-functional task force? What makes it different from a traditional design team?
- •18.Do you agree that “packaging is the last chance to seduce the customer”? Is packaging really so important nowadays? What functions does it perform?
- •19. What is “wrap rage”? Have you ever experienced it? Does “wrap rage” really make manufactures change the packaging?
- •20. What should staff know when the product is on the market?
- •21.What is a usp? Is it possible to develop one for all types of products or services?
- •22. What is a typical job search plan or job sculpting
- •23. What are the ten tips to crate career that will light your fire
- •24. How can you note down the difference between vocation, career and job.
- •26. What are career decisions based on? How easy is it to combine your interests with your choice of career?
- •27. What ways of getting job you know? Which ones do you think you will use?
- •28. What is the main aim of job interview for the employer and the potential employee?
- •29. How can an applicant impress an interviewer? How to be well-prepared for the job interview?
- •30. How many ways of spending a gap year can you think of? Are gap years and career breaks common in Russia?
- •32 What misconceptions about negotiations often turn up?
- •33 What issues might be subject to negotiation?
- •34 What might preparation before negotiating consist of?
- •35 What types of negotiations do you know?
- •36 What key techniques during the negotiation are used? What should you keep in mind about trading concessions?
- •38. What can serve as an incentive to improve sales? What are advantages / disadvantages of sales incentive programs.
- •39 What features does csr tend to describe?
- •40 What issues does csr cover?
- •41 Why has csr become an important area in the business world?
- •42 What areas are on the borderline between social and business policy?
- •43 Do small businesses have the same responsibilities referring to csr as multinationals?
- •44 What does ‘ to be a good corporate citizen’ mean?
- •45 What kind of corporate image does a company try to project?
- •46 What do you know about ‘golden rules of meetings’?
- •47 What is the difference between a merger and an acquisition? Are the differences great in practice? Why?
- •48 What is involved on deciding a merger or an acquisition? What steps are undertaken by the board when deciding what company to merge with?
- •49 What factors are taken into account when merging and in what case is it successful?
- •50 .What problems may arise after acquisition has happened? How are m&a perceived by employees, shareholders, customers and the general public?
- •51 How is a merger like and unlike a marriage?
- •52 What are good and wrong reasons for m&a?
- •53 What are pros and cons of taking over a business? Think about the five Gs in particular.
- •54.What types of stock market investors are known? What “animals” can you find on the stock market ?
- •55.Why are companies interested in export trade? What are the most important reasons for exporting?
- •56. What should be done before getting started on the foreign market?
- •57.What options of the distribution channel should be considered?
- •58.What other more specialized export options do you know and what do they mean?
- •59. What issues are discussed with agents and distributors?
- •60. What methods of payment in international trade do you know?
- •61. What difficulties of selling products are there in overseas markets ?
27. What ways of getting job you know? Which ones do you think you will use?
You can find the job due to on-campus recruiting, career fairs, networking through personal contacts and going to events such as conferences, writing to specific companies with your résumé and a covering letter, internet job sites, company websites, classified ads in newspapers and professional magazines.
More job leads are developed through networking than any other method. Networking involves using the vast numbers of people that you know -- your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, customers, vendors, associates, etc. -- as information sources for job leads. The more people in your network, and the more people each person in your network knows, the larger your network and the greater number of job leads.
Numerous types of career and job fairs occur regularly. Companies send employees to these fairs to meet and recruit top prospects. Your goal is to prepare beforehand and identify the key employers in attendance and then develop a strategy for breaking through the clutter of perhaps thousands of other job-seekers.
28. What is the main aim of job interview for the employer and the potential employee?
A job interview is a process in which a potential employee is evaluated by an employer for prospective employment in their company, organization, or firm. During this process, the employer hopes to determine whether or not the applicant is suitable for the role.
A job interview typically precedes the hiring decision, and is used to evaluate the candidate.
The interview is usually preceded by the evaluation of submitted résumés from interested candidates, then selecting a small number of candidates for interviews. Potential job interview opportunities also include networking events and career fairs.
Why Job Interviews are so Important? A bad hiring decision can be immensely expensive for an employer. The costs associated with hiring a candidates, training, severance pay, loss of productivity, impact on morale, cost of re-hiring, and other factors can be very large.
29. How can an applicant impress an interviewer? How to be well-prepared for the job interview?
One of the secrets of great interviewing is knowing something about the company where you are looking for a job.
Practice a lot. For example, carry out mock interviews with other students! colleagues or a career counselor. Also, if you are a student then have some on-campus interviews with companies who come to visit — just to gain confidence and experience. Use an Internet search engine to research Frequently Asked Interview Questions.
It is very important to be well prepared for a job interview. A common reason employers give for not hiring candidates is the inability of candidates to fully explain the contents of his or her CV. It is very important that you are able to discuss every item listed on your CV, and if possible to give examples where appropriate. It is also wise to research the company you will be interviewing at, before your interview, as well as preparing for common interview questions.