You will read a short dialogue, followed
by questions for you to answer. These are not just comprehension tests
- they are designed to help you think about the interviewing procedure
from the point of view of the interviewer as well as that of the applicant.
There are 'Links' for you to use in association with your reading and response.
The people and events shown in this and the following dialogues are entirely fictitious, and any similarity with actual persons or companies is entirely accidental. Each exchange is asigned a number for ease of reference.
The scene is an office on the premises of an Investment Company in Hong
Kong. It is late afternoon, and Mr. Wong, the Marketing Manager, and his
colleague, Miss Tam (who is in fact a trainee) have already interviewed
several applicants for the position of Marketing Officer Trainee, and are
having to fight off fatigue. None of the young men and women they have
seen so far is in any way outstanding. They turn to the file which has
on it the name of Miss Ellen Chan. It contains her letter of application,
her Curriculum Vitae, and three letters of reference. One of these
is so general, as to be not informative. Mr. Wong lays the other documents
before him on the desk, so that both interviewers can see them.
