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Are You Hiring?

Are You Hiring? English, baby! Video Lesson

Date: Sep 28 2007

Themes: Work

Intro

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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

There’s nothing worse than pounding the pavement looking for “help wanted” signs. Each rejection feels like a personal blow and before you know it, you don’t have enough confidence left to get a job digging holes.

Devan is having a hard time finding work. Listen to Amanda give her a pep talk.

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Amanda

Amanda

Devan

Devan

Amanda:  So how’s job hunting going?

Devan:  Terrible. I can’t find a job anywhere.

Amanda:  What routes are going? Are you doing Internet, or hard copy...résumés in the mail?

Devan:  I’ve been emailing my résumés to all kinds of places. I applied at a bakery. I applied at a pizza place. I applied at an office. Nobody wants to hire me!

Amanda:  Have you connected with a recruiter or a job staffing service?

Devan:  No. Do you know one?

Amanda:  It’s free and they have all the staffing services. They interview you hardcore. They get your whole profile, and then they do the work.

Devan:  I would like the idea of somebody else doing the work.

Amanda:  Yeah. It’s pretty cool. You have one interview with them only and they’re the gatekeeper, and they sell you to any job opportunities that are out there in your city.

Devan:  That’s awesome because I don’t even know where to begin looking. I don’t know who’s hiring. I don’t know anything.

Amanda:  It’s probably one of the most frustrating processes a person can go through, really.

Devan:  It is. I see why people get stuck at crumby jobs for as long as they do.

Amanda:  I completely agree. So they don’t have to job hunt. And it’s worse if you are unemployed at the time because then you’re desperate and you’ll take anything. So do you have something right now?

Devan:  Yeah, I have a job, but my work’s going out of business so I’m trying to find a new job.

Amanda:  So time’s running out.

Devan:  Time is running out. I’ve got till the end of the month.

Amanda:  Can you afford a little bit of time between this job and the next one? A little cushion there?

Devan:  Yeah. Maybe I’ll get some unemployment soon.

Amanda:  That’s true too.

 

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Discussion

Devan has applied a lot of places, but is having a hard time finding a job. Amanda asks her if she’s been using a recruiter. She hasn’t.

A recruiter, Amanda explains, interviews you and then shops you around to local employers, saving you the trouble. Devan thinks that sounds like a great idea.

She also says that she sees why people stay at crumby jobs for so long. Working sucks, but looking for work is worse. And, as Amanda points out, looking for work when you’re already unemployed is the absolute worst because you’re desperate.

Luckily, that isn’t the case for Devan. She has a little bit of time to find a job.

How did you find your job?

 

Comments

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Asako

Japan

I understand these kind of difficulties very well…
Even in Japan, I hardly found any job especially for women about 4 years ago when I was a college student and looked for a job in the hotel industry. There are usually more women who would like to work for hotels than men. But to work for a hotel is my dream for a long time, I could not give up it.
One great change was to visit German to live and work for a chain hotel as a trainy. Once I wont out foreign country, then it seemed much easier to find jobs even though it’S in the same industry… I think the people in Japan like from foreign countries, espacially from Europ and USA. It shows very attractive for them.
Agents will be effective to find a job which we would like to work for, but what is the most important thing is to know what the industry or community is willing to us who are comming from outside… We need to make it stronger or better with our skill.

12:52 PM Jul 13 2008 |

waelhaddad12

United Arab Emirates

WaelHaddad
syria
I'm electronics  and  communication engineer.. master degree now.. and  I've got MCSE (Microsoft Certified system engineer) certificate  from Microsoft  company,  and  my  skills and experiences  are very  good, even though  I've had  big  problem  before  I've got my  job. I advices everyone don't has a job, to use job's website  and  read  advertisement in  press and to register  his/her resume in  recruitment agencies. and if  someone  needs and consultant in anything related to this subject probably I can do it, I ask his/ her to fell free to mail me.


best of luck

01:11 AM Apr 10 2008 |

waelhaddad12

United Arab Emirates

WaelHaddad
syria
I’m electronics and communication engineer.. master degree now.. and I’ve got MCSE (Microsoft Certified system engineer) certificate from Microsoft company, and my skills and experiences are veery good, even though I’ve had big problem before I’ve got my job. I advices everyone don’t has a job, to use job’s website and read advertisement in press and to register his/her resume in recruitment agencies. and if someone needs and consultant in anything related to this subject probably I can do it, I ask his/ her to fell free to mail me.
waelHaddad12@yahoo.com
best of luck

01:00 AM Apr 10 2008 |

Kipi

Kipi

United Kingdom

Oh…yet It was really frustrating.

I found very nervous for the job interview.

By the way I love those audio lessons really useful to me.Kiss

 

06:31 PM Mar 13 2008 |

vivi bulat

Romania

 Hi Zeus,

I have seen your Wedding…all was so beautiful…I like Yanni, thank you for posting this wonderful music…Have a life filled with LOVE, happiness and very good kids…

God bless you and your family!

08:45 PM Mar 05 2008 |

zhaozheng

China

good luck to everyone!

09:56 AM Feb 26 2008 |

Tarantulla

Tarantulla

Russian Federation

No, I am not hiring a new job now but I am a HR-manager in company and I know,on the one hand, it is difficult to find interesting job. On the other hand,it is hard to find the right person according to particular experience and educational qualificafions.

06:22 AM Feb 24 2008 |

alaaasd

alaaasd

Jordan

easy

 

09:23 AM Jan 20 2008 |

jaction

jaction

China

i am ilde all the winter,it's terrible for my living.

10:44 AM Jan 15 2008 |

miinnnu@gmail.com

Maldives

um actually doing a great job here.i am a teacher right now.And all these lessons are really very useful….Thanks for e baby

05:51 PM Dec 24 2007 |

Mike Greek

Greece

IN Greece as in every developed country there is the unemployment problem.Every gonverment promises solutions but nothing much happens

12:27 PM Dec 14 2007 |

lucyinthesky0106

Brazil

the streaming is very fast, but I’m trying to understand everything.

10:47 AM Dec 11 2007 |

jeamy

jeamy

France

hi how are you? fine i hope I COME FROM PARIS AND I WOULD LIKE MAKING NEW RELATIONSHIP WHITH PEOPLE HOW COME FROM DIFFERNET CONTRIES ALL AROUND THE WORLD IN ORDER TO IMPROVE MY SKILLS IN ENGLISH IF LIKE ME YOU WORK SERIOUSLY YOUR ENGLISH I AM ABLE TO BE YOUR FRIEND BYBY  (<:)

 

04:22 PM Dec 07 2007 |

jinzhao84

China

everyone's commest is very good.

actually i'm hiring for a new job.but i feel it not a easy just as i image.

05:04 AM Nov 25 2007 |

chandramohan jagnihotri

India

Job is not at all difficult like as previous days

but the thing is that one will get the job according to his calibre. so try to enhance personality aswellas knowedge  and u will get the job very soon.

 

09:59 AM Nov 20 2007 |

phamtrang

Viet Nam

job hunting, it is a stressful thing. it's difficult to fing adequate job with your favorite and your demande.

04:00 PM Nov 16 2007 |

ngocdungvt177

Viet Nam

you don’t worry about that,you can solve ,ok

07:02 AM Nov 09 2007 |

foodever

foodever

China

i've gone through the same before, even worse, there was one time when i could not find a job by all means. i felt so frustrated and desperate.

Oh, don't wanna think of it a little bit more

06:25 AM Nov 09 2007 |

bori

China

but i want to find a new job!

 

02:04 AM Nov 02 2007 |

Ada Liu

China

Recently I'm thinking about quiting my job. I know it's hard to find a new job, but my current job is almost killing me, I just can't stand it anymore. Hope I'm doing the right thing.Cry

08:23 AM Nov 01 2007 |

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