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  • everybody, welcome back to our weekly live stream.

  • My name is Alicia, and today we're going to talk about English for job and school interviews.

  • Today's lesson is going to focus on some very common questions.

  • You here in job interviews and school interviews, and I'm going to talk about some sample responses and give you some ideas for how to respond with your information.

  • So I hope you can find a lot of useful stuff.

  • I'll talk about some important vocabulary words you'll hear in job in school interviews, too.

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  • I'm going to share the video now and then I'm going to begin s So today we're going Thio, uh, kind of have the same pattern for each part of the lesson.

  • I'm going to introduce the question and some points about your answer.

  • And while I'm preparing, please send in the chat.

  • Please send your sample answers to the question I will try to check.

  • I will try to check your answers.

  • There are lots of points.

  • There are lots of things to check in the chat, though.

  • So if I miss years, I'm sorry, but please send your example sentences in the chat and I will try to check them live if I can't Really Sorry.

  • So let's begin.

  • I have shared the video, so I want to start with this question.

  • This is maybe the most common first question in a job interview and you'll hear something similar.

  • So it will be very close to the same in a school interview.

  • The question, actually is not a question.

  • It's like a command.

  • So this is Tell me.

  • Tell me a bit about yourself.

  • Tell me a bit about yourself and a native speed.

  • This question sounds like Tell me a bit about yourself.

  • Tell me a bit about yourself.

  • So this is something the interviewer.

  • I am asking you the question.

  • The interviewer asks you this question.

  • So tell me, means please talk to me a bit.

  • A bit means a little about yourself.

  • So this command is actually a request.

  • A command.

  • It means please give a short so a little Please give a short introduction.

  • So this does not mean you should tell your life story, So don't share of just a lot of information like where you were born, where you grew up.

  • All of this.

  • When you answer this question, give a short introduction, so you should share your focus.

  • If you're a student or if you want to go to a university or college, what is your study?

  • Focus.

  • If you are applying for a job.

  • What is your work focus or what is your career?

  • Focus.

  • So share your focus.

  • Share like your goals.

  • What things do you want to do in the future?

  • Or maybe what were your past goals and share important accomplishments?

  • Important accomplishments?

  • So this means in your study experience or your life experience your work experience what are maybe like, two or three really important points for you Important points for your studies or for your career.

  • So, for example, like, did you win an award or did you have a really great success at work?

  • So what's something that was really key Really, really important for your career.

  • So this should be a very quick introduction.

  • So some examples air coming in.

  • I'll use your examples from the YouTube chat.

  • Uh, Amon says, my name is Oman.

  • I finished my gretch.

  • I graduated.

  • Maybe I graduated from such in such university.

  • I am such in such years old.

  • Okay, I come from a family.

  • Okay, so there That's very focused on your personal life.

  • That example is very personal information focused.

  • Keep it focused on your studies.

  • So what did you study?

  • What are your career goal.

  • So try not to share a lot about, like, personal personal stuff, but share about your goals, your goal.

  • So it should be career or study minded.

  • So, for example, if I wanted to talk about mine like I could say, for example, like I studied communication in college and I wanted past tense, I wanted to work in media.

  • So I did an internship with ABC Company, and now I want to create my own project.

  • So that gives some key information.

  • What is my study?

  • Focus.

  • What is my experience?

  • A key experience?

  • Where did I work?

  • What do I want to do next?

  • So that's a very, very short example.

  • But those are the kinds of points you should be sharing.

  • Okay.

  • Uh oh, nice one.

  • I just There's one on YouTube.

  • If you're in the YouTube chat, you can check out Christians.

  • Comment, he says.

  • I'm a software developer, and I've been working in the in the field for around three years.

  • I've worked in different teams, projects and programming languages.

  • I'd love to be a tech lead, so that's a very short, nice one.

  • Very, very short introduction you could in a really interview.

  • You could give some more details, but that's a nice example.

  • Okay, so the second question you may hear second or another very common introduction or a base question.

  • Is this one?

  • Why do you want to work at this company?

  • Why do you want to work at this company or for schools?

  • Why do you want to attend this school?

  • So attend means that go to this school like, become a student at this school.

  • Why do you want to work at this company?

  • Why do you want to attend this school?

  • So be it.

  • Specific.

  • Specific means you give detailed reasons for something.

  • So don't say all your company seems interesting or Oh, this school seems nice.

  • Like specifically give detailed information.

  • Why do you like that company or why are you interested in this company this job specifically so don't say.

  • Also, money is generally not a good answer.

  • So show that you understand the values or sorry, the schools or the company's values and goals.

  • So values and goals means what is important for the company.

  • Is the company really interested in like, environment or like social responsibilities?

  • Eyes the school really like focused on technology.

  • Is there a specific department that's interesting for you about this school?

  • So why that school or why that company explains specifically why and how do the companies or the school's values match your values?

  • So, in other words, like they want to see like, does this person's like values?

  • Or does this person's goal match our goals?

  • Are they the same?

  • So be specific.

  • To prepare for this question, read the website, of course.

  • Read the website.

  • What is the company about?

  • What is the school's focus?

  • So you need to understand that, and you need to think about your own focus.

  • So how do those two match?

  • How do those things match?

  • Uh, okay, let's see.

  • So send some examples, if you can, I'll try to check.

  • There's some good examples coming in here.

  • Uh, for this question, I'll come back to that in a moment, so please make sure to be specific specific here.

  • And generally, it's not a good idea.

  • Don't mention salary.

  • Don't mention money in this question.

  • So what?

  • The company wants to know the school wants to know.

  • Do we have similar values and similar goals?

  • Okay, Uh, some examples.

  • So Okay, Daniel on Facebook says I want to work in your company because your company is the best.

  • Okay, so the best what?

  • So your company is like, the top company in this field or your company is the best with, like, social responsibility.

  • So the best what?

  • So give some more detail, share something a specific about why you're interested in that school or that company.

  • Okay, Uh, not Gordon on Facebook has maybe a better example.

  • I want to study M B a an I.

  • D a business school because I want to start my own business.

  • Okay.

  • Nice start, then.

  • Then this business school has a great program toe.

  • Learn how to do that.

  • So match your goal to the school you want to attend.

  • So with a connection in there, when you answer this question, what's your connection to the school or the company?

  • Okay, uh, let's continue to the third question here.

  • This is another very typical question.

  • Maybe you need some explanation, though, eh?

  • So the last one for this part, where do you see yourself in five years?

  • Where do you see yourself in five years?

  • This See yourself means imagine yourself So in five years means five years from this day.

  • So from the interviewer from today as well, imagine yourself.

  • Imagine you in five years.

  • So what's like, What's your vision for yourself?

  • So what are your goals?

  • What are your goals?

  • What do you want to do?

  • And again, how do your goals match the company's goals or the school school's?

  • So again, you're making a connection.

  • This one is about a future connection.

  • So the company wants to see.

  • Is this person going to continue working with us in a positive way?

  • Or will they contribute something positively so again?

  • It's about matching.

  • Okay.

  • Ah, let's see.

  • There's a lot of good examples coming in.

  • Uh, let's see.

  • I don't know where I see myself next week since Leah.

  • Okay, I'm looking for a couple of aunts specific answers to these questions.

  • I see some very general questions about where you've been working, but you need to think about how to answer these questions specifically.

  • So in five years, this is a future question.

  • I'm seeing some past tense, some past tense questions.

  • This is a future or some past tense answers.

  • This is a future question in the future So, like you can think over the next few years.

  • In the year 2020 and 2021 2022.

  • What do you imagine for yourself?

  • What do you want to do?

  • Professionally or for your studies?

  • So not, like maybe your personal goals necessarily.

  • But what are your career goals again?

  • Tie it to connect it to your career.

  • Uh, que Lau has a nice example on YouTube in the YouTube chat.

  • I want to join your company because your company provides free service is to disabled people.

  • Which matches my goal.

  • My life goal.

  • To help people.

  • I would like to develop empathy towards those in need.

  • Nice.

  • Nice.

  • Great.

  • So that's a great way to connect your goals to the company's values.

  • Okay, sounds good.

  • Uh, let's take one quick break, then on.

  • And then we'll continue to kind of the middle.

  • The middle part questions.

  • So today is very focused on school and work English.

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  • We have a couple, I think, new ones that I haven't shown you in a while.

  • Uh, there's a business pdf, which I have lost Just a moment.

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  • This abuse of the two that I wanted to show you.

  • For those of you, for those of you who go okay, for those of you who are studying force for work, we have a business.

  • English.

  • Pdf, this has vocabulary words for the office.

  • Yes, but on the back, I've shown this before our phrases you can use in a meeting.

  • So these are business and work related expressions from meetings.

  • And there's some other stuff here.

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  • So how to speak to your instructor or how to speak to your classmates?

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  • Very sorry.

  • Okay, so with that, let's continue to part you for today.

  • These are the kind of, like, middle part of the interview questions.

  • So if you have not already, please make sure to like and share the videos of other learners confined today's lesson.

  • All right.

  • Uh, I see some examples coming in, by the way.

  • Uh, let's see.

  • Mmm.

  • I saw a couple some help move with family.

  • I think on YouTube.

  • Says I'm from Malaysia making doing my own business, and I'd like to improve my English to make sentences.

  • Okay, so maybe that's like a school goal or something like that.

  • So try to try to make it specific specific to the place that you're applying to.

  • Okay, let's go to this part.

  • I'll stand over here so these two are very similar questions.

  • They're very simple questions, really.

  • But they're hard to answer.

  • They're difficult to answer for some people.

  • So first is What are your weaknesses?

  • What are your weaknesses?

  • So weaknesses, Plural weaknesses means this question means What are you not good at doing?

  • What, are you not good at doing so?

  • The interviewer asks this toe, Understand that Because nobody is perfect, right?

  • Nobody's perfect.

  • So the interviewer asks us to understand, like, your personality, A little bit s so you should be honest.

  • You should be honest.

  • Exactly.

  • You should be honest when you answer this question, don't say I have no weaknesses.

  • It's not a good idea.

  • So be honest with the interviewer, so try to be honest, but you should explain that you know how to manage your weaknesses.

  • So, for example, you could say like, um, uh, it's difficult for me to speak in front of big groups.

  • It's difficult for me to speak in front of big group, so maybe, like, meetings are scary for you.

  • So you could say this is This is something that's difficult for me.

  • It's scary for me, and but I practice a lot, so I take a lot of time to practice before a presentation, and that helps me a lot.

  • So this is maybe very common weakness.

  • Speaking in front of lots and lots of people.

  • Maybe like now.

  • So, uh, so this is difficult for lots of people.

  • So explain the problem.

  • Explained the weak point.

  • That's okay, Honestly.

  • And explain how you fix the problem, too.

  • So don't just say like, I am not good at being organized.

  • Explain.

  • Give some information.

  • How do you fix that problem?

  • How do you fix that problem?

  • Okay, uh, then the other half of this question may be the opposite type of this question is, what are your strengths?

  • What are your strengths?

  • So strength.

  • Your strength means.

  • What are you good at?

  • What are you good at?

  • So again, be honest.

  • Yes, but don't be overconfident.

  • Overconfident means you have too much confidence.

  • You sound arrogant.

  • Arrogant is a bad thing.

  • You sound like you like yourself too much.

  • That's not good.

  • So be confident.

  • So you know I can do this.

  • I can't do that.

  • So but just be honest about it, too.

  • Okay?

  • Tang on YouTube says, why did you add e.

  • S?

  • Because this is the plural form.

  • Weakness is the singular form.

  • Weaknesses is the plural form.

  • So usually people have more than one weak point E s is the plural form, so weakness ends in an S.

  • We make the plural form here by adding yes.

  • So what are your strengths?

  • What are your strengths?

  • So maybe you can say, uh, I'm good.

  • I'm good at planning events.

  • You could say I'm good at planning events and I'm really good at sharing the information.

  • So maybe company events, or maybe planning meetings and so on.

  • Maybe you're really good at that.

  • So you can share specifically your point and maybe give an example of that strength that can be really helpful.

  • A couple of points here, then one.

  • I'm good at your present.

  • You Your proposition should be act here.

  • I'm good at this thing.

  • I'm good at known phrase here.

  • Your proposition.

  • It's difficult for me to verb.

  • It's difficult for me to plan.

  • It's difficult for me to stay organized.

  • It's difficult for me to speak in front of big groups.

  • It's difficult for me to something to something.

  • Okay, uh, let's see.

  • Other examples up yet on Facebook has a very common weakness.

  • Yeah, My weakness is I want to do everything alone.

  • I am weak on teamwork.

  • So you can say maybe teamwork.

  • It is difficult for me.

  • Teamwork is difficult for me.

  • Teamwork is difficult for me.

  • Great example.

  • Then you can explain.

  • Like, how do you fix that problem?

  • How?

  • How do you fix that?

  • Problem of teamwork.

  • So that's another very common one, I think.

  • Okay, let's go to the next question.

  • The next interview question is for Jobs.

  • This is This is a job specific question.

  • Maybe you don't really hear this one in schools.

  • So much so for jobs.

  • Why are you leaving?

  • Why are you leaving your current job?

  • Why are you leaving your current job?

  • Current job?

  • Your current job means your job now.

  • So why are you leaving?

  • Why are you quitting?

  • Why are you going to stop working at your company now?

  • So again, be honest in this question.

  • Don't try toe change the information.

  • Don't try to create some story.

  • Be honest, but be positive.

  • Be positive.

  • So don't disrespect your job.

  • Your previous job.

  • Don't disrespect your co workers.

  • Don't disrespect the people you worked with your boss's.

  • It's going to sound very negative.

  • So don't be disrespectful when you answer this question.

  • So for example, you could say maybe my contract, my contract is going to finish soon, and I want new challenges.

  • So you could explain, like, now is a nice time.

  • And you don't want to get a new contract because you want to find something new and challenging todo so you could say something like this.

  • My contract is going to finish soon.

  • I'd like to explore some new challenges, so again, be honest, but be positive.

  • Also, if you were fired, so fired means your boss, uh, let you go.

  • So you lost your job.

  • You did not choose to leave.

  • You were removed from your job.

  • In that case, explain why you were fired, Why you were fired.

  • So maybe you had a medical issue or something like that.

  • But now it's solved, or there's some other situation.

  • But it's good.

  • To be honest, it's got to be honest and positive.

  • Okay, uh, some examples are coming in.

  • Uh, 01 on YouTube has a really nice example.

  • I'm leaving because my job duties or my responsibilities have been reduced, so I have fewer things to do, and I felt that the job was not using my abilities to the fullest or challenging me enough.

  • Nice answer.

  • Really Nice answer.

  • Great.

  • Great.

  • Great.

  • Uh, Chris, why always positive.

  • Why s o if you if you come to your interview and you talk negatively about your co workers or your company, you're The impression is that you are a negative person, and you might be difficult to work with.

  • So you want to make it clear that you can communicate with other people, you can solve problems, and you can, like, get over issues.

  • So of course, no workplace is perfect, of course, but you need to show that you can You can resolve issues and work forward, not just staying again.

  • Negative mindset.

  • So, yes, if a negative thing happened, that's okay, But you should show that you learned from that thing, so I don't mean you have to only say good things.

  • I mean, you're thinking you should be thinking in a positive way.

  • Okay.

  • Ah, some other examples.

  • I missed one on Facebook, but much Nick.

  • Not corny corn.

  • Sorry again Has another example.

  • I have worked for the same company for many years, so I want to try some new things.

  • Good, Good, good.

  • Uh oh.

  • Shrift on YouTube.

  • has a good question.

  • What if I am fired because of disciplinary issues?

  • Should I tell them about that?

  • Uh, yes.

  • But you should make it clear what happened.

  • Like you Or maybe late, Like, two hours late every day.

  • I don't know what it was, but you should talk about how you fix the problem.

  • So maybe the problem was because of maybe personal issues.

  • And now you fix that, and now you're ready to start again.

  • You made the change necessary.

  • So against show, how did you learn?

  • How did you grow?

  • Because your interviewer might contact your previous job.

  • So you need to make sure you're telling the truth.

  • Okay, let's go to the last section.

  • The last section is very brief because it's very open.

  • This is up to you.

  • But this is a very important thing to prepare for.

  • This is the question from the interviewer.

  • Do you have any questions for me?

  • Do you have any questions for me?

  • So yes.

  • In a job interview or in a school interview, you get many, many questions.

  • Sure, but you should be prepared to ask the interviewer some questions.

  • So this is your chance to learn about the company or to learn about the school.

  • So, for example, some things you could ask are, if you want to ask the interviewer directly fly.

  • Uh, what do you like what you like about working here?

  • What do you like about working here?

  • What do you like about working here?

  • Means why?

  • Do you like this place?

  • Erickson's one of my starting.

  • What do you like about working here?

  • So, Eric Control does cause has sent a joke response.

  • When am I starting?

  • But if you want to be a little direct, you could say another question is, uh, if I if I start working here, uh, rather if I started working here, Or maybe let's simplify it.

  • Even what?

  • What would be my first project?

  • What would be my first project?

  • So here we're using what would be unrealistic situation?

  • Yes, for grammar there.

  • What would be my first project?

  • So this makes the interviewer think it makes the interviewer imagine you in the job, like, Okay, if this person joins my team, his or her first project would be this thing.

  • So the interviewer can tell you probably this project or these would be your teammates So what would be my first project?

  • What would be my first project?

  • What do you like about working here?

  • And you can ask some specific questions to the interviewer about their experience.

  • Uh uh.

  • Other questions.

  • I don't see any other ones.

  • Huh?

  • Uh, uh, someone says Is it okay to ask about perks and benefits?

  • Yeah, you can, Um you kind of have to feel a little bit during the interview.

  • What's the feeling of this part of the first group of questions of these questions?

  • If you've made, like, a nice relationship and you can kind of talk naturally, it's a little easier to ask that question.

  • But you can ask things like, does the company provide health insurance for its employees?

  • Or maybe, Ah, what are what's the calendar like for employees?

  • Is there a lot of overtime?

  • You can't ask those sorts of things, so yeah, I'll add those.

  • Is there a lot of overtime or, uh, does Sorry.

  • Does the company does the company offer health insurance?

  • Okay.

  • Does the company offer health insurance?

  • Something like that.

  • You can ask if you ask too many questions about, like, paid holidays, though you can sound a little.

  • Not good.

  • So try to try to have a little bit of balance.

  • There is generally a good idea.

  • Yeah, so?

  • So?

  • So Kong says, Should we ask about benefits?

  • You can a little bit a little bit.

  • Um, maybe you can ask.

  • Like I said here about health care on maybe other maybe facilities that the company has.

  • So generally you you'll get a little more detail off after after the interview, Like depending on the case sometimes.

  • Okay.

  • Uh oh, man, I just lost my comments.

  • All right?

  • I have to end anyway, eh?

  • So I have to wrap up.

  • I have to finish up today's lesson there, but I hope that you found some good vocabulary and some good, maybe ideas for how to answer these questions.

  • I know that interviews air kind of a scary experience, whether you're giving the interview or, you know, asking people questions.

  • So, uh, we'll end there for today.

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  • Next week's topic is how to report speech, how to report speech.

  • So hell to report speech means using the verbs like, say, and tell and talk and speak and ask And those birds that, like so many people, ask questions about.

  • I've gotten a lot of questions about about this topic, so next week we're going to talk about reporting speech, he said.

  • Or she said, Or what did he tell you?

  • Or I spoke to that person.

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