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Ex. 16 Go to http://www.uefap.com/listen/exercise/education/edufrmp.htm to listen to a lecture on Education and Success and do a note-taking exercise.

Ex. 17 Go to one or more of the sites below to practice the use of modal verbs. http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal1.htm http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2229 http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/modal-verbs- exercises.html

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english- grammar/verbs/modal-verbs

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UNIT 4

Lesson 1

Text 1

Pre-reading

Ex.1 Answer the questions:

1.Do you work? How did you get your job? Was it advertised?

2.What sort of people does your organization look for in recruitment?

Reading

Ex.2 Skim the text and say a) whether it is:

a.a news item from a newspaper

b.an extract from a serious journal

c.an extract from a step-by-step guide

d.an extract from an encyclopedia entry b) who the target reader of the text is.

Ex.3 Read the text and decide whether each of the following statements is true, false or not stated in the text.

Mark T for “true”, F for “false” and N for “not stated”.

STRATEGY POINT

1.You are to read the text for detail.

2.Read each statement and underline key words.

3.The statements are always in the same order as the information in the text.

4.Find the relevant part of the text and study the information carefully.

5.Look for the expressions which mean the same as words in the statement.

6.Only write True if the statement exactly matches information in the text.

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Hiring (and Keeping) Great People

Finding and hiring the best candidates for a job have never been easy. It’s your job, however, to first understand exactly what qualities you’re looking for in your new employees, and then to identify them in your job candidates. Here are some of the qualities that most employers look for when hiring new employees:

A.Hard working: There’s nothing that will throw a manager into a rage faster than having an employee who slacks off and who doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the words “hard working.”

Employees who are willing to work hard often go above and beyond the call of duty in serving customers and in attending to the needs of their organizations. As competition in global marketplaces continues to heat up, employees who go above and beyond the call of duty may be the one thing that differentiates organizations that succeed in the long run from organizations that don’t.

B.Good attitude: By “good attitude,” we mean people who are positive, friendly, and willing to help customers, clients, and coworkers. As you question potential job candidates, it’s important to try to get some idea of what they’ll be like to work with for the next 10 years. Skills are important, but attitude is even more important. As highly successful Southwest Airlines puts it: “Hire for attitude, train for success.”

C.Experienced: Experienced employees are worth their weight in gold. Not only are you more likely to get a better, higher quality work product in less time, but you’ll also have someone that is ready to perform at maximum potential in a few days rather than the weeks or months it would take to train someone who is not experienced. When you interview job candidates, be sure to take the opportunity to ask very pointed questions that require your candidates to demonstrate to you that they can do the job.

D.Go-getter: This quality is the ability to take initiative to get work done. In an Internet survey initiative was ranked as the top reason that employees were able to get ahead where they work

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(which makes this quality something both you and your potential new hires should be interested in).

E.Team player: It’s almost a cliché that being able to be a team player and to collaborate with others is a critical work skill in today’s organizations. But cliché or not, teamwork is necessary to

the success of today’s organizations and the ability to work well with others is a definite must for employees in any business or industry.

F.Smart: People who are smart are able to solve problems—and solve them quickly. But keep in mind that, in the world of business, work smarts trump book smarts every time.

G.Responsible: Employees must take responsibility for their work; employees who constantly try to shift the blame for their problems to other people or other things are employees you cannot afford to employ. Look out for the little things—like showing up for the interview on time—which can be key indicators of your candidates’ sense of responsibility.

H.Stable: Stability is an important quality in the employees you hire; the last thing you want is to hire someone today and then find out that he or she is already looking for the next position

tomorrow. Consider how long the job candidate worked with her previous employer and why she left.

So much depends on your identifying and hiring the right people— you can’t have a great organization without great people. Far too few managers make this task a priority, instead devoting as little time as they can get away with when it comes to preparing for and conducting interviews. The quality of the results of your hiring process are generally directly proportional to the amount of time that you are willing to sink into it. Put more time into the process, and you’ll probably find the people you seek; put less time into the process, and you’ll be wondering why you can’t find anyone to fill your position. [18; p.39-40]

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1.Hard working employees always do what they have to in order to serve customers and address the needs of their organizations.

_______

2.As competition in global marketplaces continues to heat up, employees go above and beyond the call of duty. _______

3.If a potential job candidate is enthusiastic about working for your company for a long time, he should be hired and could be a valuable member of your permanent staff._____

4.While interviewing job candidates, ask as many questions as possible to find out how experienced the candidate is, how qualified he is to do the job. ____

5.Candidates who excelled in studies are able to solve problems quickly._______

6.A rare manager spends sufficient time on preparing for job interviews._____

Ex. 4 Identify the topic sentence (or a part of a compound/complex sentence which gives the main idea) in each paragraph A-H.

Ex. 5 Imagine that you are an interviewer. What questions would you ask a job candidate during an interview to identify the qualities mentioned in the text? Write the questions.

*Discussion

There is an old saying You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Do you agree with it?

Give some tips for job candidates to make a good first impression during a job interview.

Vocabulary

Ex.6 Work out the meaning of the words from the text.

1.Find each one and study how it is used in the text.

2.Tick the correct part of speech.

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3. Match the words below to those in the table above.

Ex. 7 Find in Text 1 English equivalents given in bold for the following Russian words and word combinations.

1.количество

2.в долгосрочной перспективе

3.качество, черта характера

4.показатель

5.способность

6.сотрудничать

7.работник

8.требовать

9.распознавать, определять

10.чувство долга

11.взять на себя ответственность за что-л

12.приоритет, первенство

13.решающий, важный

14.воспользоваться возможностью

15.определенный, точный, ясный

16.соискатель

17.конкуренция

18.коллега, сослуживец

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19.показывать, проявлять, доказывать

20.продвигаться, преуспевать

21.положительный

22.работать, исполнять, выполнять

23.отношение к чему-л

24.возможный, вероятный

25.ценить, расценивать, относить к к-л категории

Ex. 8 Match the verbs and nouns below to make collocations. Check with the text.

Ex.9 Complete the sentences considering the meaning of the linking word. Do not give a word-for-word copy of a sentence from the text. But you may use the ideas from the text.

1.Finding and hiring the best employee to fill a position have never been easy because ….

2.A hard working employee seems to have a responsible attitude to the job. Moreover, he often …..

3.As competition in the market is getting tough, …..

4.Skills are critical but …

5.Since experience is a valuable quality ….

6.The ability to take initiative was ranked high, consequently …

7.Teamwork is necessary to the success of today’s organizations so

……

8.Book smarts could be brilliant at …., in contrast work smarts are good at …

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9.Despite the importance of conducting an effective interview too few managers ….

10.Some managers put little time in the recruitment process. As a result they ….

Ex.10 Choose the correct prefix to form the opposite of the

willing; friendly; important; successful; experienced; interested; necessary; definite; responsible; stable; direct; proportional; different

Ex. 11 Complete the sentences with answers from Ex.10 above.

1.If an employee is _______________, he tends to blame his coworkers for the mistakes he made.

2.The spokeswoman said the company was looking for other opportunities in the Asian market but she was ______________

to be specific.

3.After the first few _______________attempts he realized that had to apply to another company.

4.They're still young and ______________ but they're learning and, most of all, they are very keen and anxious to learn.

5.In future speeches, she tried to avoid the ____________ details but focus on the core information.

6.His _______________ control of the company through his son turned out to be no less effective.

7.Complete isolation in a prison for an _____________ period of time is the torture that will break the strongest person.

8.It’s very hard to work in an ____________ environment with everybody expecting you to fail.

9.The country's great influence in the world is ________________

to its relatively small size.

10.You can’t be _________________ to what you do, otherwise you have an attitude problem.

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11.Participants in these debates note that the speaker was largely

____________ and uninformed about the issue.

12.Some investors are making plans to slash __________________

expenses.

13.The company has developed a rational business plan in an irrational, ______________ economy and cut its work force to 4,500 people from 6,200.

Listening

Ex. 12

In some companies, managers have a meeting with each member of staff once or twice a year, when their achievements, strengths and weaknesses are discussed. This is called an appraisal.

You are going to listen to an interview with a woman who is talking about a new system of obtaining feedback on staff called

360degree feedback. [28; p.101]

You will hear the conversation twice.

a) Listen to it for the first time and give short answers to the questions:

1.Who gives the feedback?

___________________________________

2.Who sees the feedback?

____________________________________

b) Listen to it again and complete the following sentences, 1-7, by choosing the correct ending.

Mark one letter (A, B, C) for the correct answer.

1.In 360 degree feedback, at least some appraisers must be chosen by

A.the employee

B.the employee’s manager

C.colleagues

2.In the feedback the employee is given

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A.a grade

B.a written comment

C.both a grade and a written comment

3.The employee compares the feedback with

A.his manager’s appraisal

B.his own self-assessment

C.his development plan

4.According to the speaker, linking the feedback to pay

A.has never been tried

B.is not recommended

C.is usual

5.The employee’s manager must see

A.the results of the feedback

B.the employee’s development plan

C.the results of the feedback and the employee’s development plan

6.The speaker feels that anonymous feedback

A.is essential

B.is more useful than named feedback

C.is less useful than named feedback

7.360 degree feedback is not recommended

A.in times of major change

B.in periods of growth

C.in small companies