Name: What You Needed To Get A Job As A Secretary!
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T18:56:42.000Z
Duration: 6 min 42 s
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you're about to see a film from 1955 that trained secretaries.

To-infinitive

Well, most people don't have secretaries today because I can remember the time when corporations started to get rid of the secretary.

Past simple

But at the time, 1955 I was in high school.

The secretary was the number one job for women in America.

So lots of films training them to become good secretaries.

I saved the paper, and this is a copy that I'm going to reach you off the rules that they suggest what they suggest.

You need tohave to become a good secretary.

A natural flair for organizing activities.

Are you fastidious about your appearance at all times?

Do you refrain from making sarcastic remarks?

Do you control your impulse to meddle in other people's affairs?

Is your voice pleasing and well modulated when people bore you?

Do you refrain from showing off how much you know, do you refrain from talking about yourself?

Are you always alert to improve your vocabulary, your pronunciation, your grammar?

Do you avoid making fun of other people behind their backs?

And most important, do you avoid gossiping?

Well, those are the characteristics that this organization said would make a good secretary.

So watch the film and watch till the end.

Because what you're going to see is some bad girl who doesn't do it right and how she looks in the office.

We're expecting you, Miss Hamilton will be your supervisor.

She's a stenographer and file clerk who, starting this morning.

I understand you're one of Miss Purcell students.

I'll show you where to leave your things, and then we can get to work.

All right, girl, this is Miss Benson, Miss Hamilton and Mr Arnold certainly set a good example of courtesy for us.

This book contains some of our forms and procedures.

Study it a while and then we'll start you on your first assignment.

The girls took me to lunch that first day.

It looked like it wouldn't be hard to follow.

Pride about enjoying the people you're working with the part about know your work was a little hard.

Those first few weeks, there was many an evening at home getting appointed with the company's work on learning some of its business.

There was ever a time when I didn't know those, Some of it during the hard way.

This letter that you type this morning, I believe there's a stake here.

I can't remember just what word I used there, but I don't think I could have said this.

Well, suppose I give you this paragraph over again?

In view of our current production schedule, we think it will be necessary to curtail our order number 3 to 5.

Of course, there wasn't anything that Mr Kane said.

But I learned then to admit my mistakes gracefully.

Instead of arguing about the more offering alibis I learned asked when I wasn't sure instead of making a wild guess and I learned not to resent criticism or to brood over it.

Since then I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts about office etiquette.

 I learned that Miss Purcell Short be considered of your employer could cover a whole multitude of things. 

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