Job Interview questions

 

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Secretário/a - Lisboa - Úria Menendez

Secretária de administarção - Lisboa

Executive  assistant - Lisbon 

Let’s talk about you

1.                  Tell me about yourself.

2.                  Where were you born?

3.                  Did you go to school there?

4.                  Where do you live now?

5.                  Do you have a driving license?

          

Let's talk about your skills...

 

1.                  What can you do?

2.                  Do you have experience as management assistant?

3.                  What are your strengths?

4.                  What are your weaknesses?

  

Let's talk about the moment...

 

1.                  What are you doing at the moment?

2.                  Where are you doing your training course?

3.                  When will you finish your course?

4.                  Can you start working immediately?

5.                  Why do you want to join our company?

  

Let's talk about your experience...

 

1.                  What was your last job?

2.                  What did you do in your last job?

3.                  How long were you in your last job?

4.                  Why did you leave your last job? 

5.                  How many times did you talk in English in a work context?

 

Let's talk about the future...

 

1.                  What are your plans for the near future?

2.                  Where do you see yourself in five years?

3.                  What are you looking for in your next job? What is important to you?

4.                  Are you going to study more?

Talking about the Future

Future with 'will'

Exercises:

Will - Future Tense
Will - Negative
Will - Questions

Future with 'going to' 

Positive	Negative
I am going to	I am not going to
You are going to	You are not going to
He is going to	He is not going to
She is going to	She is not going to
It is going to	It is not going to
We are going to	We are not going to
You are going to	You are not going to
They are going to	They are not going to

Affirmative	You	are	going to	win the race.
	Subject	BE	GOING TO
Question	Are	you	going to	win the race?
	BE	Subject	GOING TO

Exercises:
Going To - Future Tense
Going To - Negative
Going To - Questions

Job Interview 2 - The origin of job interviews

 

Exercise 3 for PRA - Part 2

Talking about the past - Negative and interrogative - Part 3

 

We use did to make questions with the past simple:

Did she play tennis when she was younger?
Did you live abroad?
When did you meet your wife?
Where did you go for your holidays?

But questions with who often don't use did:

Who discovered penicillin?
Who wrote Don Quixote?

We use didn't (did not) to make negatives with the past simple:

They didn't go to Spain this year.
We didn't get home until very late last night.
I didn't see you yesterday.

Exercises

Past Tense - Negative
Past Tense - Questions
Past Tense - "Wh" Questions 

 

Talking about the past - the verb to be - Part 2

Exercises

Was/Were

Wasn't/Weren't

Was/Were -Questions

Job interview 1 - Pepsi Max

Exercise 3 for PRA LEC Part 1

 
Identify the verbs in the present and change them to the past rewriting the text

They just finished law school. They are looking for new jobs. They see an ad for a job opening at Torre & Associates. But they know it won't be easy.

Tom and his friends go to the office on the day of the interview. The hall is full of potential job candidates waiting to be interviewed.

Tom and his friends realized their chances of getting a job are pretty slim. So, they come up with an awesome plan.

The interviewer steps out of the office and calls for Mr. Goodman. Goodman is Bill's last name. So, he steps into the office. The interviewer looks at his resumé and asks, "What makes you think you qualify for this job?"

Bill pretends he is being harmed. He screams and makes a lot of noise. Joe pretends to be afraid. He stands up and walks out. The other interviewees start to leave too. They are scared out of their wits.

Bill continues to make a lot of noise. He slams himself against the wall. More interviewees start to leave. Meanwhile, Bill opens the door and hurls himself across the hall.

Everyone else leaves too...except for Tom. The interviewer looks at him dumbfounded and says, 'next'. Tom just smiles and waves.

This is the original video

Talking about the past - Part 1

 Past simple - regular or irregular verbs

Regular verbs
With most verbs, the past tense is formed by adding –ed:

called

liked

wanted

worked

Irregular verbs
But there are a lot of irregular past tense forms in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tense forms

We use the past tense to talk about:

• something that happened once in the past:

I met my wife in 1991.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.

• something that happened several times in the past:

When I was a boy, I walked a kilometer to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.

• something that was true for some time in the past:

I lived in Angola for 3 years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.

• we often use expressions with ago, last..., yesterday with the past simple:

I met my wife a long time ago.
I visited my parents yesterday 
last week I went to Foz do Arelho

Exercises:

Past Tense - Regular Verbs
Past Tense - Irregular Verbs - 1
Past Tense - Irregular Verbs - 2

Past simple British Council