Exercise 2. Read the following passage about the role of search firms in recruiting and fill in the gaps with one of the words below. Translate the passage into Russian.

Employer; position; recruit; candidates (applicants); suitable (competent); skills; employer.

Headhunters or executive search firms specialize in finding the right person for the right job. When a company wishes to ------- a new person for an important ------- it may use the services of such a firm. The advantages for the ------- are that it does not have to organize the costly and time-consuming process of advertising selecting and interviewing suitable -------.In some cases the search firm may already have a list of people with an appropriate ------- for the job. If this is not the case, then it may act as a consultant, advising on or even organizing tests and simulations to evaluate the candidates` ------- in order to select the most ------- person for the job.

Exercise 3. Can you formulate how the Present Perfect Tense is formed? Now make up two sentences where the predicate is used in the Present Perfect Tense.

Exercise 4. Translate the following sentences into Russian:

1. An offer of employment has been made to Mr. Wills.

2. I have written a letter to terminate the contract with the company.

3. He has been vice-president for 10 years.

4. He has been promoted to the position of a senior executive in the marketing department.

5. I have tried to phone you several times but have been unable to contact you.

6. Since May he has been unemployed.

7. We have just completed a new project.

8. The company has received numerous letters of application since the job was advertised in a newspaper.

9. My colleague has decided to set up his own company.

Exercise 5. Identify the Active Voice or the Passive Voice in the following sentences. Translate the sentences into Russian:

1. The Personnel Department has recently recruited about 1000 new employees to fill the vacancies in the new branches of our company.

2. My friend has been invited to attend an interview in British Telecom.

3. They have offered me some extra benefits together with a good salary.

4. We have checked the references supplied by this candidate by writing to his referees.

5. The company has employed these two marketing department managers through a recruitment agency.

6. She has been found suitable for the job.

7. Our company has significantly expanded.

8. This is the first time we have received a complaint.

9. A lot of progress has been made over the past three years.

10. I have been in charge of order processing for the past five years.

Text B

My Career

When I first started working for Guinness I was employed as a general worker. For three years I worked in the bottling plant as a machine operator. The next position I held for a period of seven years in the engineering department as a maintenance assistant. This involved working with technically skilled personnel in the maintaining plant and equipment In both jobs I reported directly to a supervisor. Since then, however, the structure of the company has significantly changed and the supervisor layer no longer exists. General workers now report to a plant manager. I was then promoted to the position of laboratory officer in the quality assurance laboratory. This job involved carrying out a wide range of analyses on all aspects of the brewing process. For the past year I have worked in the personnel department as an Industrial Relations Manager. In this role I report directly to the personnel Manager of the company.

My transition from general worker to a managerial position came about as a result of my involvement in industrial relations as an active trade union member for several years, as well as studies I undertook in my spare time. In fact, I have recently completed a Masters in Business Studies at University College, Dublin.

While my current job title is Industrial Relation Manager, my role at present is more concerned with manpower planning. This involves talking with line managers to identify the manpower requirements of the company over the next three or four years. I am also responsible for recruiting and drawing up contracts for temporary personnel as well as redeployment of permanent employees to new positions within the company. One of the consequences of major structural change like that which has taken place in Guinness is that job titles do not always reflect actual roles. In many respects Guinness is going through a period of transition where new roles are still evolving. If you were to ask me what, above all else, is the key competency for managers today, I would have to say it is the ability to manage change.

During the time I have been with Guinness the company has undergone several programmes of change involving the introduction of new technology and the contracting out of non-core activities such as security, catering and major maintenance projects. And this in turn has led to a significant reduction in the number of people directly employed by the company. I should add, however, that this was achieved without any industrial unrest. Guinness has always sought to achieve major structural change through consultation and negotiation with trade unions. The age profile in the company was quite high and the necessary personnel reductions were achieved through early retirements rather then compulsory redundancies.

Questions:

1. What was the first job of the author?

2. What was the next position that he held?

3. Who did he report to?

4. Has the structure of the company changed since those days?

5. Who do general workers now report to?

6. What was his position in the company when he was promoted?

7. What did his job involve?

8. What has been his position for the past year?

9. Why was he promoted to a managerial position?

10. What is his current job title now?

11. What does his work involve?

12. What kind of period is his company going through?

13. What is the key competency for managers today according to the author`s opinion?

14. What has led to a considerable reduction of the company`s staff?

15. Were those changes opposed by those people directly employed by the company?

Exercise 1

Can you formulate how the Past Simple Tense is formed and what the difference between the Present Perfect Tense and the Past Simple Tense is? Make up two sentences with the predicate used in the Present Perfect and Past Simple Tense.

Exercise 2. Translate the following sentences into Russian:

1. I met the president yesterday.

2. In 1985 Simon Bell began his computer business at the University of Southhampton.

3. Last year the situation in the food industry stabilized.

4. The profits that our company made last month were enormous.

5. Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium in 1902.

6. Neil Armstrong landed on the surface of the Moon in 1969.

7. Yesterday someone broke into our head office and stole very important documents.

8. Mr. Brown was involved in industrial relations as an active Trade Union member.

9. John was sent to Italy as a trainee sales representative.

10. When Michael Bloomberg started using the Internet it helped him to reduce company costs.

Exercise 3

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