西安翻译学院BEC中级题期末考试题

I.Write the verb in brackets in its correct form and complete these tips for wo

rking from home. (1 X 7= 7 points)

1 You (need) to find a quiet place to work, where there are no distractions.

2 If you (communicate) with a client on the phone today rath

er than face-to-face, it’s important to dress for work as norm al.

3 Now that you (escape) from the office, you’ll still need

peace and quiet at home. Don’t answer the door to neighbours o r make social calls.

4 Once you (work) from home for a while, you might feel a b

it lonely. It might be worth going into the office once or twic

e a week.

5 After you (be) at the computer fro a few hours, remember

to take a break –why not leave the house and go for a walk out side?

6 Be strong. When a friend call and asks you to lunch, say what

you would say in any other job: “sorry but I (work) on so mething at the moment. How about after five instead?”

7 Make sure colleagues and clients can reach you and (answe

r) the phone as though you are in the office.

II.Issues in the recruitment world (2 X 5 = 10 points)

In the competitive world of investment banking, good senior executives are not easy to find. So what should the industry's hard-pressed directors do when they need to find seni or staff? Increasingly, they decide to call in the headhunters. These are busy and profitabl e times for the recruitment agencies that dominate the world of executive search and selec tion.

.....They needed new people to revitalise their operations, and the result has been a boom in the recruitment market. Pinnacle, a leading recruitment agency, has helped various UK investment banks to rebuild their entire senior management teams. It is hard to overstate t he significance of this. (8)............

But now everything has changed, and Pinnacle is not the only major player in the field. Some analysts believe that rival recruitment specialists ALT Associates has a larger share of the market. However, there is little doubt that over its 13-year history, Pinnacle and it s chairman, Matthew Edwards, have built up an impressive reputation.

Edwards estimates that his company controls between 10 and 15 per cent of the headhunti ng market for senior investment banking jobs in the UK. (9)............Rather, it is the high-c alibre jobs and people that Pinnacle deals with that define the company's success. For exa mple, the company was recently commissioned to find a new chairman for NBS Bank, a vacancy that was one of the most talked about in the banking world.

Most HR directors recognise that headhunters such as Pinnacle play a valuable role in the recruitment process.(10)............Some are concerned that a few companies, including Pinna cle, have too much power over high-level recruitment.(11)............As Tim Davidson, HR Di