English 3 Class 12 Job Interview

Universidad del Valle
Facultad de Humanidades Inglés con fines generales y académicos III

Escuela de Ciencias del Lenguaje Alan Hernández
Dpto. de Culturas y Lenguas Extranjeras Source: linguahouse
AIM: At the end of this session, you will be able to discuss about a job interview.
DISCUSSING ABOUT A JOB INTERVIEW
1. Discuss the following questions.
1. How many interviews have you had after applying for a job?
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2. Which job interview was the best? What made it a good interview?
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3. Which job interview was the worst? What made it a difficult interview?
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4. How many interviews did you have to get your last job?
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5. What were the interviews like? Were you nervous or not? Why/why not?
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2. Match the vocabulary to the definitions.

3. Put the vocabulary from the previous exercice into the correct blanks in the following
sentences.
4. Match the following words with their correct definitions.

5. Answer the following questions.
1. If you had to move to a different country or city, where do you think you could settle?
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2. What situations in your job cause the most conflict between people?
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3. Do you find it easy to fit in when you start a new job, or not? Why?
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4. Have you been in a situation where you had to resolve a problem at work? What happened?
What did you do?
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5. What are your aims in your work for the next five years?
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6. Would you be happy doing a job that involved a lot of travel? Or do you like to stay put in one
location? Why?
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6. You are going to listen to a job interview. Match the questions to the answers.
1. Have you ever had to resolve a conflict in a professional situation?

2. Can I also ask what the next steps would be in the interview process?
3. Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?
4. Do you have any questions for me, Wesley?
5. How would you resolve conflict in a management role?
6. Is a management role something that would interest you in the future?
a. Absolutely. I feel my strengths are project management and working with different people.
b. I admit that I’ve never had to in a management position at work.
c. If I were offered this job, I would hope to settle here.
d. If you’re successful at this stage, you’ll be asked to attend another interview in around 2 weeks
from now.
e. Ultimately, it’s important to listen.
f. Yes, can I ask what characteristics someone who is good at this role would have?
7. Listen to the job interview again and decide if the following statements are True or False.
1. Wesley plans to move abroad within the next five years.

2. Wesley feels he is good at working with people.
3. Wesley doesn’t have any experience in dealing with disagreements in the workplace.
4. Wesley hasn’t had any real experience in dealing with disagreements at all.
5. Wesley believes the most important thing to do in a disagreement is to speak clearly about how
you feel.
6. The interviewer believes that someone who can look for new ways to solve problems would be a
good candidate for the job.
7. In the interviewer’s company, there are a lot of people from different places with different
experiences.
8. The interviewer asks Wesley to come back for a second interview.

1. What was your opinion about the answers that Wesley gave to the questions? Were they good
answers or not? Why?
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2. What answers would you give in this situation? Look at the questions in the prepare for listening
section to help you.
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3. At the end of the interview, the interviewer asks Wesley if attending more interviews would be a
problem. What would you say in that situation?
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9. Quickly read through the article on the next page and match the numbers to what they mean.
1. The number of additional interviews Mike Conley was asked to attend. a. 2.6 million
2. The number of views Mike Conley’s post on LinkedIn got. b. 4,000
3. The number of public responses to Mike’s post. c. 66%
4. How certain Google decided it could be about a new candidate after 4 interviews. d. 6
5. The percentage of people that lose interest in a job after not hearing back
from the company after two weeks. e. 77%
6. The percentage of people that lose interest in a job after not hearing back from
the company after three weeks. f. 86%
10. Complete the following sentences with one, two, or three words from the article.
11. Quickly read the text again and find words that have the following definitions.
1. What do you think are the most useful questions for an employer to ask a candidate in an
interview? Write down at least five.
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2. How would you answer those questions?

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3. What questions do you think are useful for a candidate to ask an employer in an interview?
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4. What qualities do you look for in a company when you are applying for a job?
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5. If you were in charge of hiring a new candidate, what qualities would you look for in that
candidate?
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Universidad del Valle

Facultad de Humanidades Inglés con fines generales y académicos III

DISCUSSING ABOUT A JOB INTERVIEW

1. Discuss the following questions.

2. Match the vocabulary to the definitions.

4. Match the following words with their correct definitions.

1. Have you ever had to resolve a conflict in a professional situation?

1. Wesley plans to move abroad within the next five years.

8. Discuss the following questions.

2. How would you answer those questions?

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