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64 transcripts Coursebook (audio + video) Coursebook, Unit 11, exercise 15b ( À 27) Announcer: Listen to the phone conversation between Mark and Mr Grey. Mr Grey: Coffeecopy, Grey speaking. What can I do for you? Mark: Mr Grey, this is Mark Wu from Whitehall. I’m phoning about the interview that you said you’d be prepared to give me for our school magazine, about what you’d be looking for in a CV. Mr Grey: Ah, yes, Greta Anderson’s your form teacher, she spoke to me about this. Why don’t we do this straight away, young man? If you’re ready, I’m ready to answer your questions. Mark: Well, yes, I’m ready – so – erm, my first question would be, what would you expect to find in a CV, erm, for a summer job? Mr Grey: Right, CVs for summer jobs … Let me think … Well, the first thing that I’d check is does it look OK, you know, is it carefully put together, without typing mistakes, has care and attention gone into it, because this might show how a person will work. … I think I mentioned – when I talked at your school – that I’ve had CVs with totally inappropriate pictures, boys in their biking gear, girls in their party gear, with string tops, and I don’t think this looks professional. So, the picture needs to be appropriate. Mark: OK, right, I’ve got that. Mr Grey: Then … Hm … I want to see that you’ve researched our company, and that you’ve thought about how you would fit in, and what you have to offer us. For example … For example, OK, it’s going to be a negative example again, but I don’t need somebody who just wants to look at the technical side of copying, who isn’t outgoing as well. I need someone who will relate well to people. So in your CV, you need to show me that you’ve got good people skills as well. Maybe because you work in a youth club, or you’re a student representative, or you work with smaller kids and tutor them, or you volunteer in a charity shop – something like that. I also want to be able to contact you in case I need to speak to you, so I want your full contact details, not just your Facebook profile. Mark: Right, well, that’s obvious, isn’t it? Mr Grey: Might sound obvious, but to some people it isn’t. I’m interested in an honest picture of yourself, because if it’s not authentic, if it’s not you, I might give you a summer job and will then find out, and that’s a really painful process for both of us, believe me, that you’re just not suited for the job, and that means I will have to let you go, and for you it means that your first work experience will not be a good one. Mark: So no lies or things that are stretching the truth. Mr Grey: Definitely not. On the other hand, a lot of you young people don’t know that you’ve got quite a number of skills that might be marketable because nobody tells you. Time management, for example, if you always hand in your school projects on time and your teachers would know this, mention it – and give their names as references. Or your peers have voted for you to be class representative? Shows they place trust in you and think you’re reliable – mention it. You’ve worked at church charity jumble sales and they let you add up the sums because you’re good at maths and they know you won’t construction work, or helping out in the local toddler group, whatever you’re interested in. … Yes? Dan: What about computer work? What would I have to do if I wanted to get a job working with a computer, designing webpages and so on. I mean, then I could do more complicated stuff, couldn’t I? Mr Grey: Well, that depends on what you can do and what the company that employs you needs, but yes, I suppose, you could theoretically do more complicated stuff, though in practice, they’d probably just let you – I don’t know – search for pictures to use on the websites and check that all the links are working, and keep the more challenging stuff for their regular employees and freelancers – unless you’re really good at what you’re doing … Class: He is … Yes, he’s good … Mr Grey: … in which case they’d probably offer you a permanent part-time contract because people who are really good with computers are still hard to find. Has that answered your question? Dan: Well, yes, I think so. Mr Grey: But I don’t want to raise your hopes too high, getting into a company that might need your ‘good’ computer skills will be the hard part. …Which brings me to the second part of my talk, the job interview. Most businesspeople are very conservative as far as employing new staff is concerned, even if it’s just for a summer job, because our customers, on the whole, are very conservative. So, dress more conservatively than you normally would, be polite and just try to make a good impression. Piercings, for example, will have to come out, especially if they are in your face, because customers don’t like talking to somebody who looks like a badly decorated Christmas tree. Mumbling instead of talking clearly, chewing gum, being obviously embarrassed when talking to a stranger – which you have to do in the job interview – not looking at people, not smiling at people, these are all things that don’t go down well in job interviews. Hannah: Excuse me? Mr Grey: Yes? Hannah: What about tattoos? Mr Grey: Well, I did say that I’m very conservative, so I think what you do with your body is up to you, but I don’t want to be confronted with it. If you have a tattoo, I don’t want to see it, and I don’t want my customers to have to see it, so you’d need to cover it – like wear long sleeves if it’s on your arms, and long trousers if it’s on your legs. That might not go down too well with you, but there it is. If you want the job, you follow my rules. … Any more questions? … No? Well, then I’ll just let you know that in the branch in the city centre, the one that’s in Peas Hill, I’ll be needing two young lads or ladies to work in July and August, for 30 hours per week, so your applications are welcome. …Thank you, goodbye, and all the best. Class: Thank you … Goodbye …Thanks a lot! Nur zu Prüfzw cken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv