Unit 13 Jobs and careers
13.3 Interviews
13.3 B
Interviewer: Good morning, Miss...
Sue Jones: Miss Jones. Good morning.
Interviewer: Miss Jones, yes, right. Hi. Um...now, you'd like to join our team, I gather.
Sue Jones: Yes, I would.
Interviewer: That's...that's very good. Er...I'd like to know a little bit about you.
Perhaps you could tell me...perhaps we could start...
if you could tell me a bit about your education.
Sue Jones: Oh yes, right. Well, I left school at 18 and for the first two years I went to Gibsons,
you might know them, they're an engineering firm.
Interviewer: Ah, yes, right.
Sue Jones: Um...and after that, I wanted to do a course,
so I...I did a one-year full-time PA course and went back to Gibsons.
I was PA to the Export Director.
I stayed there for another two years and...and then moved on to my present company.
Um...that's Europe Marketing...um...Mr Adair,
the marketing director, offered me a job because Gibsons had...had worked quite a lot with Europa Marketing.
Interviewer: Oh, yes, Europe Marketing...yes.
Sue Jones: And I've been with them for three years now...um...first with
the Marketing Director and...and now I'm with the Sales Director.
Interviewer: That's all very interesting, Miss Jones.
Um...I...I'd like to know, what did you enjoy most at school?
What was the course that you enjoyed most?
Sue Jones: Ah...foreign languages I liked best.
Interviewer: Foreign languages?
Sue Jones: We did French and German. Yes.
Interviewer: Mhm. And are you quite fluent in those now or...?
Sue Jones: Yes, bit rusty now, but...um...obviously the more travel
I can do the more I can use my languages and I'd like to learn another language.
I'd like to add Italian as well.
Interviewer: Italian?
Sue Jones: Yes.
Interviewer: Very good, very good, that...that might be very useful.
Now...er...tell me a little bit about...er...the work you're doing at present.
Sue Jones: Um...well Europa Marketing is a marketing and publ...public relations company.
Interviewer: Yes, I've heard of it.
Sue Jones: And they do...they do consultancy work for companies operating in the UK and European markets.
Er...our clients come from all over the world...um...we deal with some of them by...by post,
but most of them come to our offices and at least once during a project.
I assist the Sales Director by arranging these visits,
setting up meetings and presentations and I...I deal with all her correspondence.
I've not been able to go with her on any...on any of her trips abroad,
but I...I've been to firms in this country,
several times on my own...um...to make these arrangements.
Interviewer: It sounds as if you're very happy there, Miss Jones.
I'm curious why you'd like to leave them and join our company?
Sue Jones: Well...um...I know the reputation of Anglo-European and it has a very good requtation.
And I feel that I would have more scope and opportunity in your company
and the work would be more challenging for me.
I might be able to possibly travel and use my languages because at the moment
most of my work is...is rather routine secretarialtype work
and I like the idea of more...um...challenges in my life really...
second interview
Interviewer: ...yes, well, your CV seems pretty well up to scratch.
Now, I wonder, can you tell me more about yourself?
Tom Richards: Um...well, I...
Interviewer: Yes?
Tom Richards: I...I'm...well, I think I'm serious...seriousminded, I...calm...
Interviewer: You're calm?
Tom Richards: Yes, well, yes, I like a joke, though, good sense of humour.
I don't panic in a crisis and I...I enjoy working with all kinds of people.
I...I even like...um...p...people who are,
you know, bad-tempered or something like that.
Interviewer: Yes, but wh...where do you see yourself in let's say five years'time?
Tom Richards: Um...well, I...sort of the long-range thing.
Well, I...I see myself in the public relations and...er...well,
one day I must admit I would rather like to open up my own consultancy in my own home town.
Interviewer: Mhm, what is it specifically about Anglo-European PR that attracted you?
Tom Richards: Er...well, first of all, I want to leave my present employers
because they're a small company and...er...I know about Angle-European PR,
I mean, they're a...they're a good company, large.
I think I'll have more scope...er...the work will be more challenging.
I mean, quite a lof of what I do at present is quite boring, it's...it's routine secretarial work. And...and you'd like to move on?
Tome Richards: Yes, if I could, you know, hopefully to a job that gives me more opportunity.
So I can use my initiative.
Interviewer: Mhm.
Tom Richards: Can I just ask you this question?
Excuse me...I'd like to know if I get this job with Anglo-European,
would I be able to...um...work abroad in one of your overseas branches?
Interviewer: Oh,yes,certainly.Oh,good. Um...our staff regularly do six-month placements in other branches.
Tom Richards: Six. Oh well, that's good.
Interviewer: Mhm. Can I...d...I know we're all human beings here and I'd like to know wh...what you consider your strengths and your weaknesses.
Tom Richards: Um...strengths and weakness?
Haha. Well, I...I mentioned before,
I think my sense of humour...er...and my ability to work with all types of people is a particular strength.
Tom Richards: My weakness?
I don't know, I suppose I'm a bit of a perfectionist...I...I'm quite often dissatisfied with what I've done.
I always think I can do it better, you know, or in a different way.
Interviewer: I wouldn't call that a weakness, I'd call that a strength.
Tom Richards: Well...ah...well, that's good, well...I mean,
apart from that I...I suppose I get a little bit sort of full of the 'Wanderlust' and that's why I want to travel.
I'm easily bored with repetition and...er...and procedure.
Interviewer: Do you have a lack of commitment?
Tom Richards: No, not at all.
No...er...once my goals are set and I've got the right sort of initiative
then...er...I...I'm as committed as anybody.
Interviewer: Not one of these people who wanders off?
Tom Richards: No, not at all.
Interviewer: Now...um...i...is there anything else you'd like to ask me?
Tom Richards: Aha...yes, if I can just get down to the nitty-gritty:
would the salary be reviewed at the end of the year?
Interviewer: Yes, the salary wi...the salary would be reviewed every six months.
And after six months you'd also be eligible to share in the company's bonus scheme.
Tom Richards: Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, that's good, yes.
Interviewer: Right, well...um...time is pressing on, I'm afraid,
so thank you very much for coming to see me and we'll be in touch with you before the end of the week.
Tom Richards: Good. Well, thank you for seeing me.
Interviewer: Goodbye.
Tom Richards: Bye.
And that is the end 13.3 B.