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The set of useful phrases — 2

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Today we are going to overview a few helpful phrases which you could use in the case of interview (if you are looking for a job). Your role in this conversation is the point of view: you might be an interviewer and you could be an interviewee as well. So, let’s glance at questions you might be asked, I will mention only the most interesting of them.

So, let us suppose you had moved up the ladder in our company, what would be your priorities in approaching your job?

You’ve been asked about your capability to get on with your colleagues, subordinates and the higher-ups; if you understand the role you’re going to play in this company on a new position.

What would you say if you faced this situation?

As you can see the most widespread type of questions during the interview has second conditional structure. The situations are always imaginary and you should be ready to answer to the question even about Peter Pen.

Let’s have a look at answers.

If I had to deal with this problem, I would…

Again we meet the second conditional. This type of answers is about your actions in different cases. What about questions when you have to characterise yourself?

I am a strongly-motivated, well-organised person…

Don’t be shy, in the case of looking for a job you had better tell an interviewer everything good about yourself ;) Compound adjectives are very suitable for this type of answer.

Thank you for coming and reading :) Next time I am going to have a look at constructions you can use on meetings.

The set of useful phrases

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Disclaimer: Any topic in this blog might have mistakes.

I want to cover some phrases which can help you to obtain patterns of speech, especially it will be business language. Not going to keep in secret, I took this sentences from TAE (Talk About English BBC Podcast). Let’s get down to them.

Situation: a new employee has his first day in the company. The HR manager is trying to describe a situation, introduce him to his colleague.

— I will give you a quick wiz round.

This phrase is very colloquial. ‘Wiz’ comes from ‘wizard’ and in this case means ‘a quick observation of the office’. The meaning of the sentence is ‘I will show you the office’.

Next set:

— If you need to use it, give me a call.

— If you need anything, take it from there.

— If you need any help, just call me.

— Feel free to call me.

— Don’t worry about calling me.

These phrases have the common sense. Everyone knows that the first day in a new team is very hard. If we want to show our friendly attitude to this person, and demonstrate good intentions, these patterns are very convenient to use. The general meaning is ‘I will help you at any time, just let me know’.

That’s all for today ;) Next time I am going to consider some helpful phrases about an interview and applying for a job.