{"id":140,"date":"2007-03-28T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/2007\/03\/28\/bep-40-adv-job-interviews-first-round-interview-part-1\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:36:03","slug":"bep-40-adv-job-interviews-first-round-interview-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/28\/bep-40-adv-job-interviews-first-round-interview-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 40 &#8211; Job Interview English: First Round Interview (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-140-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP040ADV-Interviews1_64K.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP040ADV-Interviews1_64K.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP040ADV-Interviews1_64K.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Business English Podcast ESL lesson is the first in a two-part series that follows job applicant William Chow through his first interview at an international bank.<\/p>\n<p>In this podcast you&#8217;ll learn how to deal with some typical first round <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/job-interviews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">English job interview questions<\/a>. 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Mike Warner, a HR manager at Mercantile International Hong Kong, is conducting the interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/job-interviews\/\">More job interview English lessons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[tp no_translate=&#8221;y&#8221;]<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/StudyNotes\/BEP040SN-Interview1.pdf\">PDF Transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP040ADV-Interviews1_64K.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast MP3<\/a><\/strong>[\/tp]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Business English lesson is the first in a two-part series on English interview skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","powered_cache_disable_cache":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,45,2,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19256,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/19256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}