I. Read and translate the text.

Recruitment

1. When a company needs to recruit or employ new people, it may decide to advertise the job or position in the «NEED HELP» section of a newspaper.

2. People who are interested can then apply for the job by sending in a letter of application or covering letter (US coyer letter) and a curriculum vitae or CV (in US - resume) containing details of their education and experience.

3. A company may also ask candidates to complete a standard application form.

4. The company's Human Resources department will then select the most suitable applications and prepare a short list of candidates or applicants, who are invited to attend an Interview.

5. Another way for a company to hire is by using the services of a recruitment agency (in US - search firm) which provides a list of suitable candidates.

6. A growing number of companies are no longer satisfied with traditional job interviews.

7. Instead, they are requiring applicants for many white-collar jobs to submit to a series of written tests, role-playing exercises, simulated decision-making exercises.

8. Others put candidates through a long series of interviews by psychologists or trained interviewers.

9. The tests are not about mathematics or grammar, nor about any of the basic technical skills for which many production, sales and clerical workers have long been tested.

10. Rather, employers want to evaluate candidates on the following qualities:

11. Is the candidate creative and entrepreneurial?

12. Can the candidate lead and coach?

13. Is the candidate flexible and capable of learning?

14. Does the candidate have enough skills and knowledge?

15. How will the candidate function under pressure?

16. Will the potential recruit fit the corporate culture?

17. These tests, which can take from an hour to two days, are all part of a broader trend.

18. Companies are'-getting much more craftily about hiring.

19. Ten years ago, candidates could win a top job with the right look and the right answers to questions such as «Why do you want this job?»

20. Now, many candidates are having to face questions and exercises intended to learn how they get things done.

21. They may face questions such as «Who is the best manager you ever worked for and why?» or «What is your best friend like?»

22. To answers, psychologists say, reveal much about a candidate's management style and about himself or herself.

23. The reason for the interrogations is clear: many hired candidates work out badly.

24. The cost of bringing the wrong person on board is sometimes huge.

25. Searching and training can cost from $5000 for a lower-level manager to

$250,000 for a top executive.

26. With the pace of change accelerating in markets and technology, companies want to know how an executive will perform, not just how he or she has performed.

27. Years ago, employers looked for experience has the candidate done this before?

28. Most companies have not changed this practice until now.

29. Research has shown that most decision makers make their hiring decision in the first five minutes of an interview and spend the rest of the time rationalizing their choice.

30. Even companies that have not started extensive testing have toughened their hiring practices.

31. They make the comprehensive testing aimed to measure skills in communications, analysis and organization, management style and personality traits.

Vocabulary

position — зд. работа

apply for ... — подавать заявление на …

letter of application = covering letter — заявление о приёме curriculum vitae = resume — автобиография

experience — опыт

application form — заявление о приёме нa pa6oтy

short list of candidates or applicants – краткий список кандидатов interview — собеседование

to hire – нанимать

recruitment agency = search firm — aгентство по трудоустройству a series — ряд

to simulate —моделировать

 

Exercises

II. Find the Russian Equivalents:

Interview, covering letter, psychologists, to hire, curriculum vitae, comprehensive, experience, a series, candidates, to simulate, provide, himself or herself, applicants, recruitment agency; letter of application, curriculum vitae, hiring decision; to measure skills, pace of change, short list of candidates or applicants, interrogation.

III. Find the English Equivalents:

Собеседование, приём на работу, нанимать, автобиография, работа, человеческие ресурсы, ряд, ссылки, предоставлять, агентство по трудоустройству, краткий список кандидатов, стиль управления, оценивать кандидата, опыт работы и образование, ролевая игра, моделировать, творческий и предприимчивый, личные черты характера.

 

IV. Fill in the gaps with the words and expressions from the text:

1. Searching and training can from $5000 for a lower-level manager to $250,000 for a top executive.

2.A company may also ask candidates to complete a ... form.

3. Others put candidates through a long ... interviews by psychologists or trained interviewers.

4. Ten years ago, candidates could win ... with the right look and the right answers to questions such as «Why do you want this job?» .

5. They ... the comprehensive testing aimed to measure skills in communications, analysis Now, many candidates are having to face questions and exercises.

6. … and organization, management style and personality traits.

7. ..., psychologists say, reveal much about a candidate's management style and about himself or herself.

 

 

V. Answer the questions:

1. When a company needs to recruit or employ new people what does it do?

2. What department deals with the selection of applications?

3. What kind of test do candidates do?

4. What is the searching and training cost for a top manager?

5. Are companies -getting much more craftily about hiring and why?

6. What kind of questions may they face?

 

 

VI. Open the brackets using the verbs in the correct Tense and Voice:

1 We are finishing the last preparations for the party: the lights (switch on), the floors (clean), the tables (lay). Do you think we’ll be ready on time? 2. I’ve got two questions to you First: «What language (speak) all over the world?» Second: «What language (speak) in this room?». 3. The witness (question) by the police-in-spector now. 4. The old motorway (use) by many people, but it’s not very convenient, that’s why a new ring-road (build) in the city. 5. Our luggage (examine) at the Customs now. Any luggage going abroad (check) usually here. 6 He couldn’t go out as his suit and shirt (clean). 7. The petrol tank (fill) last week. 8 The policeman noticed that the suitcase (carry) by the porter in a most strange way. 9. The naughty boy (teach) a very good lesson by his friends. 10 When I came to the skating-rink he (teach) to skate by his elder brother. 11. The paper (not read) by anyone yet. 12. The suit (not wear) for a long time. 13. This fact (not mention) in his last speech. 14. I’m happy as I just (allow) to stay here for an extra day. 15. She (teach) music in her childhood. 16. Mind, you (punish) if you disobey my orders. 17. I wonder when my project paper (publish). 18. The child (bring up) in a respectable family. 19. They made sure that the child (bring up) by decent people. 20 Don’t leave your bicycle outside. It (steal).

 

Вариант 8

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