节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-05-14
难易度:High
关键字:urban legend, presumptuous, sodium, unfortunately
Hi, everyone.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to study English with us.
My name is Steve.
We often read articles about tips and strategies for how to nail that job
interview and land that dream job.
Well, this month Studio Classroom BUSINESS feature is taking an entertaining
twist on the subject.
In it, we'll learn how not to get hired.
That's right.
If you want to fail at getting the job of your dreams, just do something
bizarre, like bring a bird to an interview.
Let's start our lesson with the reading on page 30.
How Not to Get Hired: Bring Your Cockatoo to the Interview.
If you see yourself here, it might be time to change your ways.
You might have heard an urban legend about a job seeker who goes on a lunch
interview with his potential boss.
When the meal arrives, the job seeker sprinkles salt on his food before tasting
it.
Immediately the employer knows she has no interest in hiring this man.
The job seeker isn't flexible, but he is presumptuous.
No one wants to hire a rigid worker.
After all, employers often spend less than a minute reading a resume,
and they'll toss your application in the waste basket if you have a typo or
don't include a cover letter.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Ryan.
And my name is Kaylah.
And today we are talking about our BUSINESS article.
Now Ryan, I think this is probably one of the most entertaining BUSINESS
articles I've seen.
I actually agree.
This looks like an interesting idea of... most people talk about ways to get
hired when you interview for a job,
but this article gives us some examples of how not to get hired.
And we see right away: Bring Your Cockatoo to the Interview.
That's right.
I think it's funny - usually we do talk about how to help you get a job; this is
telling you how not to get a job.
Basically, this is an article warning us about things we should not do when we
go to a job interview.
Yes. Now we will give you some tips a little bit later in the article.
But it's kind of fun to see some examples of things people should not do that
maybe you haven't thought about before.
That's right.
And we see even in the title, we have our first example is "bring your cockatoo
to the interview." Now a cockatoo is a bird.
And you can see a drawing of that bird on page 30 in your Studio Classroom
magazine.
But a cockatoo is not something you should take to a job interview.
No, it definitely is not.
So there's one example, and you'll see many, many more.
Now if you see yourself here, it might be time to change your ways.
That's right.
Our author is saying if you see part of yourself, if you see that you do some of
these things,
you probably should change what you are doing so you can get a job.
All right.
Now we're going to start off the first part of this article with a story.
You might have heard an urban legend about a job seeker who goes on a lunch
interview with his potential boss.
OK. A... an "urban legend" is a modern day story that we tell that may or may
not be true but keeps being told over and over and over again.
So this one is... maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
But we do know that an interviewer is meeting a potential boss.
That's right.
He's interviewing during lunch, and he's interviewing with his potential boss.
Now this is not his boss yet.
It's his potential boss.
That word "potential" means it could happen; maybe.
You don't know.
We'll see.
Well, when the meal arrives, the job seeker sprinkles salt on this food before
tasting it.
Now I know a lot of us do that.
Sometimes we do just want extra salt.
But what... what does that mean?
Why is it bad?
Well, he... he did sprinkle the salt on his food before he tasted it.
So he didn't know if it really needed more salt.
And so we see here that the employer knew that the interviewer had no interest
in hiring this man.
That's right. The...
Immediately they knew they did not want to hire this man because the job seeker
isn't flexible, but he is presumptuous.
That's right.
Now the word "presumptuous" there means you have very little respect for others.
You're just going to do whatever you want to do.
Now you may be wondering how do you know that from just sprinkling salt on his
food?
Well, we know that because he didn't taste the food first, he just assumed that
it wasn't going to be good enough and that he wasn't flexible enough.
He wasn't willing to give it a try, try something new before he just wanted what
he wanted.
And no one wants to hire a rigid worker.
Yeah. That word "rigid" is really good.
That really describes that type of person.
That means that if something is rigid, it's not going to change.
It's going to stay where it is.
So if a person is rigid, then they are not going to change for others.
Now after all, employers often spend less than a minute reading a resume,
and they'll toss your application in the waste basket if you have a typo or if
you don't include a cover letter.
OK. So we saw our first urban legend story about a guy who put salt on his food.
It showed he was presumptuous, showed he was not flexible, and it showed that he
was rigid.
So the boss didn't want to hire him.
Now when we send in a resume, that means... when we're sending in, asking them
to hire us, these are things to be careful of.
You know, they don't usually spend a lot of time reading.
Right. Your resume lists all the different jobs you've had.
And if there's a typo in your cover letter, that means there's a mistake.
And that is going to make you look very bad.
And most employers, or most bosses, will just toss that into the trash and will
not hire you.
That's right.
We're going to see a... quite a bit more examples of how you should not, what
you should not do in an interview,
and hear some more entertaining stories about mistakes people have made.
But first, we want to watch today's skit.
Thank you for inviting me to lunch, Mr. Smith.
You're welcome.
This is a good way to get to know you.
And find out if I am right for the job?
Yes. I can interview you while we eat.
That's a great idea.
I'm really hungry.
Oh. Please pass the salt.
The salt?
But you haven't even tasted your food yet.
Food never has enough salt.
I always put more on it.
Too bad.
You didn't get the job.
But we didn't even talk yet.
I have no interest in hiring you.
You sprinkle salt on your food without even tasting it.
You're not flexible.
You're presumptuous.
No. No... I'm not.
I just like salt. Please.
Oh. At least read my resume.
OK, fine.
So what's this, a typo?
You didn't even include a cover letter.
This is... this is going into the waste basket.
But... but, but, you spent less than a minute reading it.
That's all the time I need.
I'm not interested in hiring you.
Well, please, sir.
I can change my ways.
Please, just give me a chance.
All right. You can start work on Monday morning.
Thank you, sir.
I'll work really hard.
You won't regret it.
Oh. That handshake just ruined your chances.
What?
You're fired!
But...