A) He looks quite good on paper.

b) I’m sure he’s very sound.

c) We must have someone who can communicate.

d) Let’s have the next one in.

e) Tell me about your present job.

f) We have a network of IBM PCs and compatibles.

g) Suppose you do join our company.

h) You’re quite sure about that?

i) You think your track record will help you?

j) Because all those things are my career!

k) I can apply that knowledge equally well to banking or machine automation.

l) I’d like to know a little more about the group I would be working with.

Listening

^T6

1. Joe Andrews and Pilar Soto have just finished interviewing someone for the post of Divisional Software Engineering Manager. Listen to what they say.

a) Do you think Mr. Schultz is likely to get the job?

b) Can you reproduce the words that Pilar used to characterize Mr. Schultz?

^T7

2. Joe Andrews and Pilar Soto now interview Carlos Vila. Listen to what they say.

a) Do you think Pilar is satisfied with Carlos’s answer?

b) Do you remember the words in which Pilar explained her request to Carlos?

^T8

3. Listen to what Joe Andrews, Pilar Soto and Carlos Vila say now.

a) Is Joe impressed by Carlos?

b) Can you reproduce the phrase that Joe uses to characterize Carlos’s career?

c) Do you remember the words in which Joe disagrees with Carlos’s view of his future?

^T9

4. Carlos Vila is answering Joe Andrews’s criticisms. Listen to what they say.

a) Does Carlos succeed in changing Joe’s view of his career?

b) Can you reproduce the phrase that Joe uses to agree with what Carlos says about his frequent changes of job?

c) Can you reproduce the words in which Carlos shows that he understands Joe’s point of view?

d) In what way does Carlos show his confidence in receiving the job?

e) Do you remember the words that Polar uses to bring the interview to an end?

^T10

5. Listen to this conversation. It practices some of the structures and phrases you have heard in this unit.

a) Listen again and speak the part of the applicant.

b) Now speak the part of the interviewer.

Role-play

Working in pairs, play the roles of an applicant and an interviewer at any of the businesses operating in your region.

Reading and writing

1. Another applicant who is being interviewed is Angela Robbiani, from Italy. Read an extract from her c.v.

2. Joe Andrews has a printed form, which he and Pilar Soto use to help them choose whom to interview.

Using your notes of qualifications and experience Joe and Pilar are looking for in the new software manager (which you made under the headings ‘essential’ and ‘desirable’ in Unit 4), fill in the form with details of Carlos Vila and Angela Robbiani. Write the qualifications and experience first the most important, then the less important.

Vocabulary 3

^T11

Read and listen to the words and phrases that Joe and Pilar use in the conversation you are going to hear.

Listening

^T12

1. In the interview room, Pilar and Joe must make a decision. Listen to what they say. Do they find it easy or difficult?

2. Comprehension check.

1) Which of the two applicants (Carlos Vila, Angela Robbiani) does each of these phrases refer to?

a) not as fluent as…

b) if not better

c) is making half what … is

d) the lack of industrial experience

e) has the edge

f) much more ambitious

g) experience is more varied

h) more highly motivated

i) better at working with people

2) Whom have Pilar and Joe chosen?

3) rite the correct name (Carlos or Angela) to fill in the blanks in the sentences explaining why the members of the board made their decision.

a) _____ spoke less fluent Spanish.

b) _____ had no postgraduate qualification.

c) Although _____’s current salary was almost double _____’s, the board felt that it was not exceptional for the field she was in. It had taken _____ five years to double her salary.

d) _____’s experience was totally in the area of finance and banking.

e) _____ seemed more highly motivated.

f) _____ appeared to be more used to working with people.

UNIT 7

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