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Unit 1 Nine to fiveInside viewConversation 1Janet What a wonderful view！This is such a great city. Do you ever get tired of living in London, Andy?Andy When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life;for there is in London all that life can afford.Janet This is a quotation by Samuel Johnson, isnt it?Andy Correct! So do you have any plans when you finish at Oxford?Janet Ive got another year to go, and then I suppose Ill go back home. Andy And will you find a job?Janet I think Ill have to do my Masters before I look for work. But I must admit London is very special. Do you think you would ever leave London? Andy Sure!Id love to come to China one day, and I like traveling. But I think Ill always come back here.Janet Well, your roots are here, and there are so many opportunities.Andy But have you ever thought of living in London for a year or two?Janet Yes,but what could I do here? I had planned to become a teacher. But Ive often thought if there was a job I could do here in publishing, maybe as an editor, Id go for it.Andy That sounds like a good idea. I think that would really suit you.Janet Maybe I should update my CV and send it to one or two publishers. Andy Dont make it look too good!Janet Why not?Andy Well,if you enjoy working with London Time Off, we dont want you working with anyone else!Janet Oh, working with you and Joe, its great fun, and really interesting. I couldnt think of a better way to find out about a city.Andy So, maybe you should think about applying for a job with us.Janet But do you think Id stand a chance? I mean, Im not sure if Joe likes me. Andy Dont even think about it! Joe is very straight talking, and I promise you that youd know if he didnt like you!Janet Perhaps we should both update our CVs and look for jobs together.Andy Hey,right! That would be fun.Conversation 2Janet Talking about future plans, how do you see your career developing?Andy My career? Will,I like working for London Time Off. Its part of a larger media company called Lift Of USA, so there are lots of opportunities. ButJanet But what?Andy Its not always very easy working with Joe. I mean, I think of he has a different agenda.I like his work, but sometimes I dont think his hearts in his job.Janet How did he end up in London?Andy He did media studies in the States, and then found a work as an gofer at Lift Off in New York.Janet Whats an gofer?Andy Go for this, go for that. Its a word for the least experienced person in the film and TV industry. Then he came to London and get a proper job as an researcher at Lift Off UK, and then after a few years he got the producers job on London Time Off.Janet Hes good at his job, isnt he?Andy Yes. Hes confident and very competent at what he does, so the people who work with him rate him quite highly.Janet Except you?Andy No,I rate him too. And I get on with him quite well, although were not best buddies or anything like that. Its just thatI what his job!Janet Now we know your little secret. I promise I wont tell anyone!Andy Its OK,I suspect he knows it too. But if I cant be a producer on London Time Off, then I guess Ill find something elsewhere. Janet, there was something I was going to ask you.Janet Sure, what is it?Andy I was wonderingoh, its nothing. Anyway, all this talk about your future career is making me thirsty. Lets do for a drink.Janet Whose round?Andy Yours!Outside viewPart 1Samantha Graduation. What a day! Your life is about to begin! And then your parents sayMother Get a job.Samantha I tell you! Looking for your first job out of college can be pretty hard. Reading all the job listings is so annoying. Even trying to figure out what the actual job is can be difficult. Searching through the want ads can be so boring. And writing your resume is really hard work.Samantha I dont have that day open.Samantha Getting a job interview, and than going on it the whole process is pretty tough .Interviewer Sorry to keep you waiting. Uh, have a seat. I have your resume here, and youre interested in the assistants position.Samantha Yeah. Yeah, I am.Interviewer Well, the right candidate for this job has to be very outgoing and sociable. After all, it is a sales position.Samantha Well, Im a real extrovert. Definitely.Interviewer And the right candidate has to have great self-confidence. Customers need to fell that you know what youre talking about.Samantha Well, Im really self-confident. Um, I know what Im talking about and I think I can project that.Interviewer So, what skills would you bring to this job?Samantha Well, I realize that Im completely overqualified for the position. I mean, um, in my last job, I was running the whole place.Interviewer Oh, so youve supervised people?Samantha Yep. Five of them. So, obviously I could do this job, no problem. I also have really good computer skills. Um, what else do you want to know about me?Interviewer Uh Samantha Even though I was trying really hard, even though I had sent out about 300 resumes, even though I asked all my friends and relatives if they knew of anything, I wasnt getting anywhere! Despite all my best efforts, I was still unemployed.Part 2Mother Please, why dont you see a career counselor? Ill pay for it. Anything to help you get a job!Phyllis Samantha, Im Phyllis Stein. Welcome.Samantha Oh, hi, Phyllis. Nice to meet you.Samantha So. I figure, heck, why not? I met with Phyllis Stein, a professional job coach.Phyllis Interviewing is vital to getting the job that you want.Samantha She showed me how to prepare for an interview by doing research on the position and the company. And later, she coached me on my interviewing skills.Phyllis I am going to pretend to be your interviewer, and then well stop it and replay it and look at the video and see what we could learn from that. OK?Phyllis I dont think that you should go into an interview having not practiced with some of the questions that are pretty standard.Phyllis Tell me about yourself.Samantha Well, my parents my mom is a social worker, and my dad is an engineer.Phyllis Your preparation is really important.Phyllis What do you know about our organization?Samantha Well, I saw on, um, the Internet that you do business publishing? Right?Phyllis Theres a whole range of things that have to do with how you present yourself.Phyllis Why should I hire you?Samantha Oh, well, um, Im a really outgoing person, and I like, I like people a lot. Im responsible and nice.Phyllis You need to think about what the interviewer is actually looking for.Phyllis Samantha, what was a major problem that youve encountered and how did you solve it. Samantha I havent really had any problems to deal with.Phyllis Thank you. Now, lets look at your mock interview on videotape.Phyllis I think it boils down to preparation, presentation, and understanding what the interviewer is looking for.Phyllis Tell me about yourself.Samantha Um, well, my name is Samantha Green and, um, I grew up in Cambridge and, um, I went to Boston College.Phyllis Another way of answering it is not telling about yourself, but telling about yourself in relationship to the job. So, they dont care so much about your parents and that your want to live in Cambridge. They may need you to be able to be a troubleshooter. You use some examples in your life from being a troubleshooter.Samantha I havent really had any problems to deal wit.Phyllis One of things that someone who is an assistant in a trade show is doing, is dealing with problems.Phyllis You need to be sure that you stay, sourt of, on target with presentingpresenting yourself in the strongest possible way.Part3Samantha This time I felt a lot more confident when I went in for interview.Samantha I have developed strong communication skills. In college I worked on the school paper, and Ive brought some writing samples to show you. I also worked every summer at a bed-and-breakfast. I worked a lot with our guests. I booked reservations over the phone, got them what they need, and handled any complaints.Samantha Well, I feel like I didnt really well, Well see.Speaker 1 Making a good first impression is the most important part of a job interview.Speaker 2 Arriving on the important parts of a job interview.Speaker 3 Its very important that you are being confident and youre being clear in your answers and listening carefully.Speaker 4 Not fidgeting and being confident are the most important things in a job interview.Speaker 5 Writing a thank-you note is the most important thing you want to do after a job interview.Speaker 6 And go in there with a firm handshake.Listening in Passage 1“Its not enough to ask what successful people are likeIt is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesnt.”This is the basic idea of an intriguing book called Outliers, by the American journalist Malcolm Gladwell. The book explores the factorswhich contribute to people who are extremely successful in their careers,for example, the role that family, culture, and friendship play. Gladwell examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, whatthe founder of Microsoft Bill Gates did to achieve his extraordinarysuccess, and why the Beatles managed to redefine the whole of popularmusic in the 1960s. Gladwell points out that the youth hockey league in Canada recruits from January the first, so that players born early in the year arebigger, stronger and better athletes than others born later in the year. And because they have this advantage at the start of their sports career, theyre given extra coaching, and so theres a greater chance that theyll be pickedfor an elite hockey team in the future. He calls this phenomenon accumulative advantage, a bit like the idea that the rich get richer and poor get pooer. Success depends on the processby which talented athletes are identified as much as it does on their own abilities. Another aspect which contributes to success is the 10,000 hour rule. Great success demands an enormous amount of time for practice and Training. For example, the Beatles performed live in Hamvurg Germany more than 1,200 times over four years, much more than the 10,000 hours Gladwell claims is necessary for great success. So by the time they returned to England, they had developed their talent and sounded completely different from any other group. In the same way , Bill Gates had thousands of hours worth of programming because he had access to a computer at his high school. He also became a teenager just at the right time to take advantage of the latest developments in computer technology. All through the book, Gladwell repeats his claim that its not just talent or genius which determines someones success, but opportunity, advantage and even simple good luck. Outliers has met with extraordinary success, matched only by Gladwells own career over 25 years in journalism. As a result, many critics have seen it as an autobiography, in which the writer appears to be apologizing for his own personal achievements. But the idea that you have to be born at the right moment, in the right place and in the right family, and then you have to work really hard is a thought-provoking way of revisiting our traditional view of genius and great achievement. Its certainly worth reading, as long as you dont take it too seriously.Passage2Presenter : Hi were talking about typical working hours in the US and in Brazil. Ericum youre from the States, tell me what are the typical working hours in the States?Eric : Ertraditionally people go to work at 9 oclock in the morning and they finish at about 5,so sort of a 9 to 5.Presenter : And, and Penny II know youre English but you work in Brazil, what are the hours in Brazil?Penny : Um varies slightly, sometimes you can start um on an earlier shift, say, 8 oclock in the morning to 5 um or 9 until 6. But in Brazil often people will work longer hours than this.Presenter : Right, right, OK. And what kind of clothes do you wear? I mean do you, do you dress up formally or in a relaxed way?Eric : It used to be that you would wear a jacket and a tie to work forfor men but er nowadays an open shirt is OK. You dont necessarily have to wear a tie and sometimes on a Friday you can wear a pair of jeans to work.Presenter : Oh right, the dress down Friday?Eric : The dress down Friday ,thats right.Presenter : Does that still happen?Eric : Yes, yes sure it does.Presenter : And how about in Brazil?Penny : Um its fairly casual, quite informal, um I mean you need to look neat and tidy obviously, but you, you have your own choice really on what you would wear, there are no rules and regulations. Its important to look smart but be comfortable.Presenter : Right, yeah and do you have meal breaks or is that you just fit in meals when you can or?Eric : Lunch, lunch is usually an hour, sometimes a little shorter if you have to do a lot of work from your desk.Presenter : Yeah. How about Brazil?Penny : Thats the same, about an hour.Presenter : And, and with overtime, I mean, if you I mean youre obviously contracted to do a certain number of hours. What happens if you do more than the hours that you thats in your that are in your contract?Eric : I have to make a fairly strict record of my hours so if I go beyond 5 oclock on most days I put in for overtime.Presenter : Right.Eric :And its the first hours is one hour of overtime and then theres I think 15 minute periods after that. So I could work an hour and a quarter.Presenter : And youd be paid for the quarter hours?Eric : Thats right, by the quarter hour.Presenter : How about in Brazil?Penny : Its, its a lot looser in Brazil actually. We, we often end up doing overtime but unfortunately not paid.Presenter : Fine. Thats hard luck. And what about holidays, what about in the States? You dont have much holidays in the States, do you?Eric：No, when you, when you start at a company you get two weeks holiday or two weeks vacation as we sayPresenter YeahEric Um then its usually not until youve been at the company for about five years that they give you another week. So you get