Job Interviews

Task 1: Watch this video and answer the following questions. 

      1. Match the words with their definitions.

A	B
commit	do everything to achieve a task within a time frame
prompting	make/obligate
specifics	details to the point
goal-oriented	support with examples
back something up	encouraging

 commit     = make/obligatedo

prompting  = encouraging

specifics = details to the point

goal-oriented = everything to achieve a task within a time frame

 

back something up =  support with examples

2. What is the main advice that the presenter has mentioned?

Don’t commit the fatal interview sin, you have to back it up with specifics.

Task 2:  Watch this video and answer the following questions. Underline the most suitable expressions from a), b) and c).

1. As an answer to the first question, which of the following three that the   interviewee does not do?

a)  She says that she has five years’ experience in administration and two

years in phone sales.

  

b)  She focuses much on her personal life, her studies and enthusiasm in

travelling.

   

 c)  She says that her strengths lie in advance computer skills and excellent

     customer service.

 2.  According to the second question that the interviewer asks, you should

   

a   a) have researched on the company's history and its products before

      going to the interview.

     b)   do a research on the company and the job details immediately after the

            job interview.   

c)  apologize for not being able to do any research.

    3. According to the interviewer, the interviewee

     

      a)    impressed him by revealing her truly personal weaknesses.

      b)   explained really well her suitability to the role that she had applied for.

      c)    told him her grave personal weakness and then developed from negative to positive.

    4.  Write down five new words and put them in sentences from your own.

administration       daunting    people person   weakness