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5. a. Joyce made people believe she was competent.
b. She had the distribution carried out by a subcontractor.
c. She could not make herself understood by everyone.
d. Was she able to get her work sold by the Boston
museum?
BUSinESS ConTACTS
(pp. 14-17)
Ces deux double pages ont pour objectif la mise en
œuvre des cinq compétences du CECRL. Les activités
s’appuient sur des situations professionnelles authentiques
– synthèse de documents, rédaction d’un curriculum
vitae, contact téléphonique.
1. Analysing recruitment
methods (pp. 14-15)
Les étudiants lisent les documents afin de dresser un
bilan des méthodes de recrutement. En faisant le tri,
ils exposent des points positifs et négatifs pour chaque
méthode retenue. Cet exposé prend la forme d’une interaction
orale.
YOUR TASK
The different search methods: newspaper ads,
referrals, internships (Doc. 1); the video resume (Doc.
2); teleporting your CV (Doc. 3); in-house training
(Doc. 4).
One of the most effective methods is an internship.
The advantage of an internship is that you actually
gain experience and insight on the job. Being inside
a company enables you to meet your co-workers
and work as part of a team. According to the texts
(Doc. 1 and 4), nothing can replace practical
experience such as in-house training. You can also
see how the company works. But, the drawback is
that you are a beginner, and may make mistakes.
This could dissuade your boss from hiring you
permanently. Nonetheless, if you can think on your
feet, doors will begin to open for you, and you could
be given additional responsibilities.
One of the least effective methods is the video
resumé. According to the text, one candidate for
an entry-level position became the laughingstock of
Wall Street. Indeed, his resumé stood out from the
pool of applicants, but made him look ridiculous
rather than glamourous. Although new technology
8 Unit 1 – Getting a Job
opens up new opportunities, it can also close doors
if one is not careful.
2. Writing your CV (pp. 16-17)
Cette activité de rédaction d’un CV s’appuie sur des
documents authentiques qui devraient être lus et écoutés
afin d’éviter les écueils les plus répandus dans une
telle rédaction. Après la discussion, le CV qui sert de
modèle peut être exploité à la maison dans le but de
peaufiner son CV.
Being a “geek” can help you land that job
Script de l’enregistrement
CV writer and job-hunting coach Gerard le Roux
says a client who landed a job recently wrote about
his “stroke of genius” in preparing a CV that helped
to get this result.
Le Roux says that in writing a CV for this client, he
had described him in the opening page as a “geek“,
which was the person’s own description of himself,
and why he thought he would be a good prospect
for that particular job. In his email to Le Roux, he
reported that his CV “got quite a few smiles and
generated interest from all the right people“. Le
Roux says a job applicant might question whether
it’s appropriate to use “slang” in a formal document
like a CV, or whether this might be judged to be
“too casual” or “unprofessional” by a prospective
employer.
In this specific case it worked because the employee,
a leading cell phone manufacturer, was actually
looking for a “geek”, he explains.
A “geek” is defined on the website www.wikipedia.
org as “a person who is fascinated, perhaps
obsessively... with technology, especially computing
and new media”, he says.
“We included that definition in the CV as it
expressed perfectly, in a unique and unconventional
fashion, what the employer was looking for. It drew
attention because it wasn’t ‘average’, and it matched
their needs.” When an employer’s need is met by a
closely matching offer on the part of the applicant,
the candidate stands a great chance of landing the
job, he says.
“A CV is a sales document and it isn’t wrong to be
unconventional or different. “If information matches
the needs of the reader and is relevant, it should be
in there – prominently,” he advises.
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