1B2 Tough Questions in a Job Interview

Tough questions in a job interview

Dear students,
in the link above you can watch again the video that we watched this evening and complete the exercise you had problems with.

Tough Questions in a Job Interview

1.     What´s the name person that sends Steve the e-mail? Where´s he from?

2.    According to Steve, why do the 1^st starting questions are asked in an interview?

3.    Why was wrong the 1^st interviewee´s answer?

4.    What´s Steve piece of advice to answer this question?

5.    What was the woman talking about in the “do answer” tell me a little bit more about yourself.

6.    What does she do?

7.    What was the name of the first newspaper she has worked for?

8.    In which places has she worked for as a special correspondent in the Washington Post?

9.    What are the interviewee´s weak points in the “don´t” answer?

10. What´s Steve piece of advice   for the 2^nd question?

11.  In the right answer of what are your weaknesses, what does she say?

12. What did her last employers used to tell her?

13. Fill in the gaps

You want to show that you have a kind of _______  ______ ____ _______ok? But, at the same time you don´t want to knot yourself down right? You don´t want to be your _______ ______ _____ ok? That´s the way you can _____ that you are able to ________ yourself but at the same time, you are always putting yourself ah… in a ________ ______, a position of advantage ok? And that is the _________ _______in all this in a job interview. You want to be in a position of advantage where you are __________ _______ in the best way _________ ok?

Key

1.     Jakob from Israel

2.    To break the ice

3.    Because she gives too much information about her childhood

4.    Be short and straightforward

5.    Professional career

6.    She´s a journalist

7.    New York Times

8.    South America and Africa

9.    She hasn´t any. Well one of her bosses said she was very unorganized but it was her opinion

10.  Straightforward, honest and politically correct

11.  Perfectionist

12.  Not to worry so much

13.   

You want to show that you have a kind of sense of defining yourself ok? But, at the same time you don´t want to knot yourself down right? You don´t want to be your own worst critic ok? That´s the way you can show that you are able to analyze yourself but at the same time, you are always putting yourself ah… in a higher position, a position of advantage ok? And that is the bottom line in all this in a job interview. You want to be in a position of advantage where you are marking yourself in the best way possible ok?