Module II

Topics: Recruitment

Advertising

Marketing

Grammar: Infinitive, Complex Object, Complex Subject

Unit I

Ex.1. Look at the title of the text and give the answers to these questions.

1. What is the text about?

2. Have you ever looked for a job? Did you have success in the process?

3. What can you recommend for a person looking for a job?

Text A

RECRUITMENT

Recruitment is the set of legal activities used to select people who best meet the needs of organization. It involves finding, hiring and training people. An employer has several options to consider when he wants to hire a new employee. First of all, he may look within his own company. But if he can't find anybody suitable for the position he will have to look outside the company. If there is a personnel office in the company, he can ask them to help him to find a qualified applicant. The employer can also use another valuable sources, for example, employment agencies, consulting firms, placement offices and professional societies. He can also advertise in a newspaper or in a magazine and request candidates to send in resumes.

People looking for work or wanting to change their job generally read the openings advertised in newspapers. To reply to an advertisement is to apply for a job; you become an applicant or a candidate. You write an application, or fill in the company’s application form, and send it, along with your curriculum vitae (CV) (GB) or résumé (US). You are often asked to give the names of two people who are prepared to write a reference for you. If you have the right qualifications and abilities, you might be short-listed, i.e. selected to attend an interview.

It is not uncommon for the personnel department or the managers responsible for a particular post to spend eighty or more working hours on the recruitment of a single member of staff. However, this time is well-spent if the company appoints the right person for the job.

A typical selection process would involve six steps.

Step 1. Fill out application form.

Step 2. Go through interviewing process.

Step 3. Take employment tests.

Step 4. Submit background records.

Step 5. Take physical exam.

Step 6. Pass trial period.

The employer has two sets of qualifications to consider if he wants to choose from among the applicants. He must consider both professional qualifications and personal characteristics. A candidate's education, experience and skills are included in his professional qualifications. These can be listed on a resume. Personal characteristics, or personality traits must be evaluated through interviews.

Often the organization will hire the employee conditionally. This enables the person to prove his or her worth on the job. After a period of perhaps a month, six month or a year, the firm has the right to discharge that person based on evaluations from supervisors. Such system makes it easier to fire inefficient or problem employees. They realize that their job involves effective training programs and proper managerial incentives.

Ex.2. Answer the questions. Try to use the speech patterns: It is interesting to (necessary to, important to), To tell the truth I am sure, In my opinion, In addition I’d like to mention, In conclusion I want to say, etc.

1. What is recruitment?

2. Which options should an employer first consider when he wants to hire a new employee?

3. What service does a personnel department provide?

4. In what way can be the new employees be found outside one's company? .

5. What should you do to apply for the job? What are the steps of typical selection process?

6. What qualifications does the employer consider in choosing an employee?

7. What is meant by "professional qualification" for a job?

8. What .personal characteristics does the administrator consider when choosing an employee?

Ex.3. Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentences below.

1. On other occasions the company will replace the person who resigns with an internal candidate who can be (1)……. (or moved sideways) to the job.

2. Or it will advertise the position in newspapers or trade journals, or engage an employment (2)…… to do so.

3. People looking for work or wanting to change their job generally read the (3)…… advertised in newspapers.

4. You write an (4)……, or fill in the company’s application form, and send it, along with your (5)……. (CV) (GB) or résumé (US).

5. You are often asked to give the names of two people who are prepared to write a (6)……for you.

6. If you have the right qualifications and abilities, you might be (7)……, i.e. selected to attend an interview.

7. It is not uncommon for the (8)…… department or the managers responsible for a particular post to spend eighty or more working hours on the recruitment of a single member of staff.

1. a. advanced	b. employed	c. promoted
2. a. agency	b. center	c. company
3. a. opening	b. opportunities	c. vacancies
4. a. appliance	b. application	c. demand
5. a. job history	b.curriculum vitae (CV)	c. life story
6. a. reference	b. report	c. testimony
7. a. appointed	b. employed	c. short-listed
8. a. personal	b. personnel	c. resources

Ex.4. Word-building.

1. Make words using the suffixes and prefix from the box.

2. Translate the words and make your own sentences with them.

Un-

employ

-ment -ee -er -ed

interview

-ee -er

Ex.5. Transform the sentences using participle phrases instead of subordinate clauses.

1. Recruitment is the set of legal activities used to select people who best meet the needs of organization.

2. Employees who leave a company are not always replaced.

3. The company will replace the person who resigns with an internal candidate who can be promoted (or moved sideways) to the job.

4. For senior positions, companies sometimes use the services of a firm of headhunters, who already have the details of promising managers.

5. People who look for work or want to change their job generally read the openings advertised in newspapers.

6. You are often asked to give the names of two people who are prepared to write a reference for you.

Ex.6. Translate into English.

1. Пошук, найм та підготовка людей вимагають багато часу.

2. Дуже важливо відібрати людей, які відповідають потребам організації.

3. Кожна посада має певне коло обов’язків.

4. Компанія інформує про вакансії у пресі або залучає для цього агенції з працевлаштування.

5. Я знаю двох людей, які готові дати мені рекомендацію.

6. Кандидат успішно пройшов процес співбесіди та тестування, але не витримав випробного строку.

Ex.7. Talking points.

1) If you were a manager of a company, how would you look for a right person for some job?

2. What points should you include to your CV, if you are an applicant?

3. What kind of job hunting strategy do you prefer?

Text B