“Workers Wanted”

… notice said, “Western Lines C^o: Salespersons wanted. … applications are invited for … full-time salespersons to work in … sales department of … our company. Sales experience, ability to associate are … essential requirements.”

Jean read that notice … two years ago. So she has been working for two years for … Western Lines C^o as … salesperson. … sales department she does her job in is … large supermarket. It offers shoppers scores of conveniences like … passenger elevators, … escalators, … self-serving system, … parking lots, … basket carriers and evening hours. … supermarket provides … services which are almost limitless. It has … post office, … branch library, … hair salon, … first-aid station, … lost-and-found department, … in-store radio station, even … its own fast-food restaurant. To attract … consumers and make them do their shopping … supermarket uses … strident advertising, unprecedented range of goods, high level of comfort and luxury, demonstrations of new goods, fashion shows, annual sales.

Jean works at … perfumes and cosmetics department, which is on … ground floor by … main entrance. She says that perfumes sweeten … atmosphere and act as … magnet for … passerby. Jean likes working here. … girl is very sociable and always friendly both with customers and her colleagues. She is patient with difficult shoppers every time and she does not show that she is angry or nervous when … things go wrong.

Jean starts work at 9.30 a.m. and finishes at 3.30 p.m. It takes her … twenty minutes to get to … supermarket. On … typical day Jean fills … shelves with ... boxes, bottles and jars, helps … customers make their selection or packs it. Of course, she spends … lot of time associating with possible consumers. Sometimes … girl finds her work dull and boring, but most of … time she likes her work enormously. Twice … year Jean travels abroad as their company participates at … International Exhibition demonstrating its new goods or new kinds of packaging.

It’s interesting that Jean doesn’t buy … perfumes or cosmetics from her department. … goods here are too expensive for her. Jean prefers to use an exotic serie for youth, which is much cheaper.

Once … year Jean goes to … Jamaica for … short rest. She is good at swimming and swims … mile every morning. She often gets badly sunburnt as she doesn’t like doing nothing except for sunbathing.

When Jean comes back and starts working again she will think about … Jamaica waiting for … next leave.

Ex. 20. Read the announcement and say if it is possible for you to accept this position.

A Technical Consulting Engineer is wanted. Good background and experience in software engineering and software development as well as in application programming. The candidate should have a Master degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent. Experience in C/C++ is required, FORTRAN programming is highly desired, ideally in combination with assembly programming skills and good understanding of the IA-32 and Itanium client and server architectures and platforms. Knowledge of threading technologies and OS fundamentals, as well performance optimization and/or benchmarking with hands-on experience in porting, analyzing, optimizing and tuning of complex applications on Windows and/or Linux/UNIX; debugging skills and experience. In addition, this role requires excellent time and project management skills. Good verbal and written English skills, good communication and presentation skills in front of small and large audiences of technical people are essential. Ability to quickly obtain good understanding of the technical and commercial environment of business software development. Ability to generate crisply articulated communications to software developers and technical management. A natural team player with successful inter-personal skills and customer relations experience.

Ex. 21. Describe the profession of a salesperson (a human resources manager, a secretary, a fashion model) according to the plan below.

1. Job description (full / part time, temporary / permanent, salary, location, special features)

2. Essential requirements for professional qualities

3. Necessary skills

4. Personal qualities required.