1. Mary: Helen thank you for agreeing to talk with me today. A friend of mine, Stephen, he's looking for a new job and he was asking me where should he look for jobs, and I know that you recently got a new job, so I thought you could maybe give him some advice. So where ... where can he find a job?

2. Helen: The first place, the first port of call, a good place would be the Job [1] a) application b) place c) centre d) sites which is a good place because you can talk to somebody face to face and they can give you advice and they have a lot of adverts there, lots, advertising different jobs, different [2] a) application b) suitable c) place d) vacancies .

3. You can also get the newspaper, you can also try the internet - Fish4Jobs, Monster.co.uk as well, those are two [3] a) application b) greeting c) sites d) place where you can find work. I think those [4] a) sites b) skills c) suitable d) place also help with preparing for applications as well.

4. Mary: Okay, so he can look on the internet, or he can look in the newspaper, or he could go to a job [5] a) centre b) skills c) place . I heard that sometimes you can actually just go to an office, or you can go to a company and ask for a job.

5. Helen: Yes that's possible. You could turn up at the place that you are interested in working in and ask in their main office; I did that initially.

6. Mary: Right okay.

7. Helen: ...for this job.

8. Mary: So you got a job by just going to an office.

9. Helen: Yes.

10. Mary: ...and saying "Have you got any.

11. Helen: Yes.

12. Mary: ...vacancies?"

13. Helen: [6] a) greeting b) interview c) qualifications d) vacancies yes.

14. Mary: Right and vacancy means?

15. Helen: There is a job to be filled.

16. Mary: Okay.

17. Helen: There's an empty post.

18. Mary: Okay. So if you say go to an office and you say "Have you got a job", how do the people in the office know about your [7] a) skills b) suitable c) job and your experience? Is there anything you have to give them or can you just say?

19. Helen: They might. they could give you an [8] a) application b) skills c) job form and on there you could ... you have to fill in your details, write down your [9] a) employer b) interview c) qualifications and your work experience. If they don't ask for that, you can hand over what's called your CV, which is ... which means curriculum vitae, old Latin word, and on there you can record your own. your details, your schooling, where you went to school, if you went to college or university, the certificates or [10] a) centre b) interview c) qualifications d) skills that you have received, your work experience and the dates where you worked in different places.

20. Mary: Okay, so you might be given an [11] a) application b) employer c) relevant d) suitable form and on the [12] a) application b) skills c) job form, you have to write down your [13] a) centre b) skills c) suitable d) vacancies , your experience and so on, but if there isn't an [14] a) application b) centre c) sites form, then it's good to give them this thing called the CV?

21. Helen: That's right.

22. Mary: Where you write down your details.

23. Helen: Yes.

24. Mary: ...that sort of thing.

25. Helen: Yes.

26. Mary: And how do they know that that information is correct?

27. Helen: At the bottom of the CV, or at the end of the [15] a) application b) centre c) job d) employer form, they will ask for two ... two references, so you need to give the name and address and telephone number of somebody who can speak for you, who can vouch for you and say that this person is [16] a) employer b) greeting c) skills d) suitable for the job they have applied for.

28. Mary: Can Stephen ask his brother to do that?

29. Helen: No. It's ... it's better. you should ask your previous [17] a) employer b) interview c) qualifications d) suitable or your tutor from college, somebody who knows you well in the professional domain.

30. Mary: So someone who knows about your work, so not a member of the family?

31. Helen: Yes who knows about your work, what your [18] a) application b) interview c) skills d) suitable and your abilities are.

32. Mary: Okay brilliant, thank you, that's really helpful. So then if Stephen finds a job that he's interested in, and he's given maybe an [19] a) application b) qualifications c) skills d) suitable form, for example, then what will happen? Would he have an interview?

33. Helen: Yes, very likely be invited for an [20] a) job b) application c) interview d) qualifications , because the [21] a) employer b) interview c) qualifications d) vacancies will want to see you face-to-face and ask questions as well to see if you are [22] a) centre b) interview c) qualifications d) suitable for the job.

34. Mary: Right okay. Can you tell me a little bit about what happened at your [23] a) job b) application c) interview d) relevant because I know you had an [24] a) application b) job c) interview d) suitable recently? And how you prepared for it?

35. Helen: Yes. There's a job description which was advertised the post and at first I had to decide if I wanted it and if I was [25] a) greeting b) interview c) skills d) suitable for the post or not, because the job description clearly says the kind of person they want and with what [26] a) application b) employer c) interview d) skills , experience, Qualities that are needed. So I asked for an [27] a) application b) relevant c) vacancies form from the college because that was the process here; I couldn't hand in my CV, they wanted [28] a) application b) suitable c) job forms.

36. So I filled in an [29] a) application b) greeting c) relevant d) skills form, part of the form also has what's called a personal statement.

37. Mary: You put in a personal statement?

38. Helen: To me it seems like you're trying to sell yourself really. So you're going to say all the best bits about yourself which are [30] a) employer b) interview c) relevant d) boring to your job. You might want to talk about things like how well you work in a team, or if you have good communication [31] a) employer b) job c) sites d) skills or not, if you have good literacy [32] a) application b) relevant c) skills , IT [33] a) greeting b) interview c) sites d) skills , those sorts of things are [34] a) application b) centre c) interview d) relevant .

39. Mary: Right, so good things about yourself?

40. Helen: Yes, to show that you are the best candidate for the job.

41. Mary: Okay.

42. Helen: Meant to be.

43. Mary: Right thank you. Okay, so you filled out your [35] a) application b) centre c) interview d) suitable form.

44. Helen: And then I sent that off and I received a letter which asked me to go back for an [36] a) interview b) qualifications c) vacancies and the letter clearly stated where it was, how long the [37] a) interview b) relevant c) sites d) skills would be, and also that I had to prepare a presentation, I had to prepare a talk on a related subject to the post, to the job.

45. Mary: Okay.

46. Helen: ...as part of showing some of my knowledge of the job.

47. Mary: So you prepared for the [38] a) application b) greeting c) interview d) suitable by thinking a little bit about the Questions they might ask you?

48. Helen: Yes, yes, yes, related ... related Questions.

49. Mary: How did you feel before the interview?

50. Helen: Extremely, extremely nervous because it's a very formal situation and you are put very much on the spot. You have to think of the answers on the spot.

51. Mary: What advice could you give Stephen about, for example, how to dress and how to talk to the people in his interview?

52. Helen: It's always good to give a good impression of yourself and one way of doing that is by dressing smartly, to make sure that you are tidy in your appearance, because it also makes you look a little bit more professional as well in that you care about your work and that you want to show that you have some kind of standing in your work.

53. Mary: And so when you go into the room and you greet the people who are interviewing you, do you use Quite a formal [39] a) application b) greeting c) skills d) job or an informal greeting? What kind of [40] a) greeting b) interview c) relevant d) skills would you say?

54. Helen: Yes it should be taken as a very formal situation. So even if you know any of the people or a person on the [41] a) application b) interview c) skills d) vacancies panel, you should not act pally or friendly with them, because it's a different.

55. Mary: Right.

56. Helen: ...situation.

57. Mary: Okay that's fantastic, thank you.