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Hello everyone and welcome to English Pod. My name is Marco.

My name is Katherine. And today we have a very special lesson for you. This is actually the first in a series of lessons about interview skills.

That's right. For 10 lessons that you will hear once a week for the next 10 weeks, we are going to take a look at an interview, a job interview, and we're going to take you step by step throughout the whole interview process, as well as teaching you some useful words and phrases that you can use next time you're at a job interview in English. Exactly. So, pay attention. Today is the first day we're going to be entering the office and we're going to learn some things that are important for talking to your future employer or meeting people in an interview.

Okay.

Dialogue

Mr. Parsons: Come in, Mr. Parsons. Ah, you must be Rebecca. Please do come in.

Rebecca: Thank you for making some time to see me, Mr. Parsons, it's a pleasure to meet you, finally.

Mr. Parsons: The pleasure is all mine, Rebecca. Have a seat, please. Now, would you like any refreshments, tea, or coffee?

Rebecca: A coffee would be lovely. Thank you. Black, no sugar.

Mr. Parsons: No problem. Sally, can we have two coffees, please? One, no milk or sugar.

Sally: Certainly, Mr. Parson.

Mr. Parsons: So, Rebecca, I understand you had a first interview with Miss Child's last week.

Rebecca: Yes, that's correct. She filled me in on the details of the job on the telephone.

Mr. Parsons: Great. Well, I'm glad to say she recommended you for a second interview, and here we are. Perhaps we can start by discussing your background and résumé details a little.

Rebecca: Yes, of course.

Language Takeaway �

So, one of the first things that you're offered when you go to interview at a company is refreshments.

Refreshments sounds complicated, but it's actually a very simple word for beverages or drinks, right? So, that's why he offered her tea or coffee. Refreshments are cola, coffee, tea.

Answering: If I say, "Would you like any refreshments, Marco?" You can say, "Yes, water would be fine. Thank you." Or, "I'd like a Coke," or, "I'd like a cup of coffee."

And after that, the characters are talking about the details of the job.

The details of the job are the specific points about the job. For example, if she applied for a receptionist, the details would be answering the phones, taking messages, receiving people at the office. Also, the working hours, days a week, etc.

Details are basically more information about something, the specific information about a general topic. It's not only related to work. The details can be of many, many things. If I ask you about your details, Marco, you could maybe tell me your phone number, your address, my full name, or birthday. These are details.

After she explained that she received the details of the job by phone, Mr. Parson said that she was recommended for a second interview.

The verb here is to recommend. You can recommend a person, an object, a movie. That's basically you are saying that this is good and that it's worth seeing, it's worth buying, it's worth interviewing.

For example, "I really like the movieAvatar. Marco, I recommend you see it." Or, "Katherine recommended the movieAvatar." Katherine suggested or told Marco it would be good.

And then Mr. Parson said that they're going to start discussing her background.

Background (think of the wordbackthat meansbehind) usually means a person's history at a job or at many jobs, or even their educational background (information about where they studied).

A person's background is all their history—work, study—many different things, even maybe seminars or courses that they assisted, or even just their personal history. That means someone's personal history.

Hand-in-hand with background, we have a piece of paper that usually you send to an employer to apply for a job. This is the famous résumé.

A résumé is a document that lists your work history, your working background.

It's a very important part of applying for a job. Usually, you send your résumé before you go for the interview so that the employer can look and see is this person qualified? What's their work history?

Very similar to a résumé, you may have heard a CV.

A CV is a lot like a résumé. It stands forCurriculum Vitae(CV) and it's more detailed. It has more details about a person's academic or study history.

A résumé is very similar to a summary of your work background, whereas a CV will have more details about your education, maybe more details about your work background, what you did, objectives, etc.