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An interview

Here is a part of an interview between a Personnel Manager (PM) and a young girl (Ann) who wanted to be employed by the company:

PM: Good morning, Miss...

Ann: Miss Johnes.

PM: Miss Johnes, yes, right. Hi. Um, you'd like to join our team, I gather. Ann: Yes, I would.

PM: That's very good. I'd like to know a little bit about you. Perhaps you could tell me a little bit about your education.

Ann: Oh yes, right. Well, I left school at 18 and for the first two years I went to Gibsons, you might know them, they're an engineering firm. And after that, I wanted to do a course, so I did a one-year full-time PA (Personal Assistant) course and went back to Gibsons. I was PA to the Export Director. I stayed there for two years and then moved on to my present company. That's European Marketing Mr. Adams, the marketing direc­tor, offered me a job because Gibson had worked quite a lot with European Marketing. And I've been with them for three years. I first worked with the Marketing Director and now I'm with the Sales Director.

PM: That's all very interesting, Miss Jones. And what did you enjoy most at school? What was the course that you enjoyed most?

Ann: Ah... foreign languages I liked best. We did French and German. Yes.

PM: Mhm. And are you quite fluent in those now?

Ann: Yes, a bit rusty now, but obviously the more travel I can do the more I can use my languages and I'd like to learn another language. I'd like to add Italian as well.

PM: Italian?

Ann: Yes.

PM: Very good, very good, that might be very useful. Now tell me a little bit about the work you're doing at present.

Ann: Well, European Marketing is a marketing and public relations company and they do consultancy work for companies operating in the UK and European markets. Our clients come from all over the world. We deal with some of them by post, but most of them come to our offices and at least once during a project. I assist the sales director by arranging these visits, setting up meetings and presentations and I deal with her correspondence.

PM: It sounds as if you're very happy there, Miss Jones. I'm curious why you’d like to leave them and join our company.

Ann: Well, I know the reputation of Anglo-European and it has a very good reputation. And I feel that I would have more scope and opportunity in your company and that the work will be more challenging for me. I might be able to possibly travel and use my languages because at the moment most of my work is rather routine secretarial-type work and I like the idea of more challenges in my life really....