Read the text and choose the correct difinition to the words in bold. Complete the sentences with the words from the text.Extreme interviews
WHAT sort of dinosaur are you? If you answered
Tyrannosaurus rex, then the bad news is that you probably won't get the job
you're applying for.
Welcome to the
strange world of 'extreme interviewing', the latest trend from America in which
interviewers throw bizarre questions at candidates to see how they react.
It may seem like a
game, but extreme interviewing is deadly serious. The idea is to see how
quickly job-seekers think on their feet and, at a time when 25% of recent
graduates are unemployed, it offers employers a new way of separating the
brilliant candidates from the merely very good.
This new approach to
selecting candidates comes from Silicon Valley in California -where else?
Google, famous for its demanding interview process, asked a recent candidate:
'You are stranded on a desert island. You have 60 seconds to choose people of
10 professions to come with you. Who do you choose? Go!'
One of the early
pioneers of extreme interviewing was Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, who could
be famously cruel with job seekers. Faced once with a candidate he considered
boring, Jobs suddenly pretended to be a chicken, flapping his arms and making
clucking noises round the unfortunate applicant, waiting to see what he would
do. In fact, the secret to extreme interviewing is neither in the question nor
the answer. It is in the candidate's reaction.
David Moyle, a
headhunter with the recruitment agency Eximius Group in London, who admits to
using the dinosaur question when selecting candidates, said: 'Essentially, that
kind of interviewing is used by us to give someone an opportunity to show they
are smart and not easily flustered.
Most candidates
actually get something out of it, it's not about trying to crush them. We are trying
to give them an opportunity to show their personality, rather than. just
showing how they perform in an interview.
Of course, getting
the job is just the start. In the modern business world, survival will depend
on what sort of dinosaur you really are. Blank 1 Вопрос 1Demanding needing a lot of effort and skill.
Blank 2 Вопрос 1Flustered nervous and confused, especially you
have been given a lot to do or are in a hurry.
Blank 3 Вопрос 1Bizarre very strange or unusual.
Blank 4 Вопрос 1Think on one’s feet to be able to think and react to things very
quickly without any preparation.
Blank 5 Вопрос 1Approach a way of doing or thinking about
something.
Blank 6 Вопрос 1Rather than instead of.
Blank 7 Вопрос 1Crush to destroy somebodies confidence.
Blank 8 Вопрос 1Recruitment agency a specialist company which finds and
interviews candidates to fill job vacancies in other companies.
Blank 9 Вопрос 1Job seekers people who are looking for a job.
Blank 10 Вопрос 1Flapping moving something quickly up and down,
e.g. wings.