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Step 1: Do your homework about the company. Step 2: Make a recording and learn. Work in pairs and talk about how to prepare for an interview. Write down notes about how you would find out about the company. Then choose a company you would like to work for and do some research. Write a summary about the company, yourself and your work to record and learn it. Step 3: Get ready and get there Work in groups and discuss what you should wear and why? (Clothes, shoes, hair, fingernails, makeup!) Then discuss why experts say it is a good idea to arrive early … not less than 15 minutes before the interview. Give 3 reasons or things you should notice. Are the staff friendly? Do they seem stressed or relaxed? Do they seem organised? Is it a place I want to work at? Step 4: Make a good first impression. Step 5: Communicate Your interviewers might greet you in English, so what are the phrases for meeting people, formally in English. How do you do? Pleased to meet you etc. In your groups choose two people to demonstrate two different ways of entering the room: the 1 st  person being scared like a mouse and 2 nd person to enter the room confidently like a tiger. (Don’t forget to use appropriate body language, and handshakes to demonstrate 1 st how NOT to enter and 2 nd how it is best to enter confidently). Step 6: Sell yourself With a partner work out your own answers to the difficult but common questions and write them down for your portfolio …Title: “Good answers for me at a job Interview” Step 7: Tell the truth Your future employers will want to know what you have learned from past experiences, including negative ones. Now think of some examples with your partner from your good as well as bad past experiences and make notes for your portfolio of “good answers” . Work with a partner. Prepare and act out Stella’s interview as a role play improvising with Stella’s answers and her questions from task 07. The interviewer’s questions are below. • Good morning, Ms Kogler. … Did you find our offices easily? • You come from Salzburg and did an apprentice­ ship in an interior design and accessory shop there. Do you know anything about us? • Do you think you could sell our products and speak to our customers in English? • So why exactly do you want to work for us? • How would your boss describe your work? • What are your greatest strengths? • What about your weaknesses? What is the worst one? • That’s an interesting idea! • So, Ms Kogler, where do you see yourself in five years’ time? • The next stage in our process is to finish all our interviews and consider each applicant care­ fully. You will hear from us within a week or so. 10 A2–B1 11 A2–B1 12 A2–B1 Tip You only have 6 seconds to make a first impression. Make sure it’s a good one! 13 A2–B1 14 A2–B1 Tip Talk openly about yourself, but don’t tell interviewers everything about your personal life. Keep the conversation jobrelated. 15 A2–B1 160 Unit 28 Interaction Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv