RECRUITMENTLearn the active vocabulary of the Unit and be ready to use it in your further work
Text A Employing people is one of the problems that didn’t need to concern you when you were working for somebody else. And, in the early days of running your own business, it may still not affect you – you may just be working by yourself or with your partner. However, if you do need to take on one or more employees, this brings certain legal obligations. These start with ensuring that you do not discriminate on grounds of race, sex ormarital status when you hire someone. Once they are on board, employees have certain rights regarding pay and conditions of employment, health and safety at work and redundancy, which you have to provide. At the same time, you are legally responsible for ensuring that tax and National Insurance are deductedand sent to the relevant authorities. You must obtain Employer’s Liability Insurance to cover you if an employee becomes ill or is injured as a result of working for you. Don’t think this applies only if you use machinery at your work – an employee could sue if he or she tripped over a loose rug. When company needs to recruit (or employ) new people, it may decide to advertise the job position in the appointment section of a newspaper. People who are interested can then apply for the job by sending in a letter of application or covering letter (US cover letter) and a curriculum vitae or CV (US resume) containing details of their education and experience. A company may also ask candidates to complete a standard application form. 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. Another way for a company to hire is by using the services of a recruitment agency (US search firm) who will provide them with a list of suitable candidates. Notes: marital status – сімейний стан Employer’s Liability Insurance – employer’s insurance against damage or injury of his employees caused by negligence Exercise 1. Read the text and answer the questions. 1. Do you need to take on an employee as soon as you start a business of your own? 2. What rights do you have to provide for your employees? 3. Is there any system to help you out if your employee becomes ill or is injured as a result of working for you? 4. When do you send a covering letter? 5. What is a short list?
Exercise 3. In the extract, David Smyth speaks about the stages of an interview. Read about what he says and complete the chart below.
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3. Candidate is asked what he or she knows about the job and the company.
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5. Interviewer gives candidate his views on the job and the company.
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The interview normally takes place by me being informed that the candidate has arrived, in which case I leave my office and go and greet him in the reception area and bring him personally into my office and sit him across my office desk to me, and we proceed. I normally start by asking the candidate to tell me what - since he’s previously been probably through two or three other interviews - what the job is that he’s being expected to do, just to make sure that he understands fully. Then I ask him to tell me a little bit about the company that we’re working for, so that he at least understood exactly what we do or the basics of what we do anyway, then I normally review his CV, and in particular either his previous employment or his current employment which is very important. Basically this is done to try to draw the candidate out, see how good he is at expressing himself, and to see what kind of character he is. Then I normally give him my view of what the position is that we’re recruiting for and also my view about the company, then I normally give him a period of 5 to 10 minutes to ask some questions. Then I go back to him and just talk about him, and maybe then when he’s fully relaxed, or more relaxed, put in a few of the trickquestions, not a few, I would say usually normally one or maybe two maximum. Exercise 4. Look at the questions that David Smyth uses during an interview. In which section of the interview would each question appear? A. Have you ever been in a situation in which you lost your temper? B. What sorts of projects did you work on during your time with them? C. What do you know about our recent acquisition in Latin America? D. Did you have any trouble finding our building? E. How do you deal with difficult people? F. Which of the options that you took at University was the most interesting? G. How ambitious are you? H. Are there any questions that you’d like to ask me? Exercise 2. This is part of a report that a personnel manager wrote after interviewing a candidate for the position of Director of Software Development. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present continuous tense. Articulate and well presented, Paul Sutherland is an excellent candidate for the post of Director of Software Development. He 1 wants ( want) to leave his present employer, a small computer company, because he 2… (feel) that he 3… (not use) his knowledge of software engineering to the full. He 4… (look for) a more challenging position where his field of specialisation can be exploited in a more stimulating environment. He 5… (realise) that our company 6… (grow) rapidly, and that he would be expected to contribute to that growth. He is familiar with our existing range of software and regularly 7…(read) our publications. Although at present he 8…(live) in the south, he 9…(say) that he is willing to go wherever we 10…(decide) to send him. He occasionally 11…(travel) to various European countries for trade fairs and exhibitions and 12…(enjoy) meeting people of different nationalities. At the moment he 13…(attend) a training course at the Goethe Institute in order to perfect his German. Personnel Manager. 27th January 2000
Exercise1. Complete the passage below using the appropriate words or phrases from the box.
When a company needs to 1… or employ new people, it may decide to advertise the job or 2…in the appointment section of a newspaper. People who are interested can then 3… the job by sending in a 4…or 5…and a 6…containing details of their education and experience. In some cases a company may prefer to do this initial selection after asking candidates to complete a standard 7 …. The company’s human resource department will then select the applications that it considers the most suitable and prepare a 8… of candidates or 9…, who are invited to attend an 10…. Another way for a company to 11…is by using the services of a 12 …(US= search firm) who will provide them with a list of suitable candidates.
Text B
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