B1 – Intermediate
Not having a job is a very difficult situation for anyone. A French man was having problems finding a job. He tried everything but nothing worked until he had a unique idea.
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https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1401/140109-job-hunting-1.html
Discussion Questions:
- What is your opinion on Laurent Le Bret’s idea?
- What do you think about what the billboard company did for Laurent Le Bret?
- How easy/hard is it to find a job in your country?
- How do you find a job in your country?
- Talk about how you found your current job.
12 replies on “Job Hunter Puts CV on Billboard”
1. What is your opinion on Laurent Le Bret’s idea?
A good idea. In Spain we have a saying “Necessity sharpens ingenuity”, and this is a clear example.
2. What do you think about what the billboard company did for Laurent Le Bret?
An act of social responsibility.
3. How easy/hard is it to find a job in your country?
Actually is not so hard, but they aren´t well paieds jobs and not stable
It’s not really so hard, but it’s not well-paying or stable jobs.
A few years ago and maybe in the next few years finding a job will be more difficult due to economic reasons.
The level of people without work in Spain is normally very high in relation to other European countries..
4. How do you find a job in your country?
To find a job in Spain, the best way is to browse some websites such as Infojob or Linkedin
5. Talk about how you found your current job.
I found my current job because a head hunter contacted me
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You said: An act of social responsibility.
Better: I see this as an act of corporate social responsibility by the billboard company.
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1. It’s a very original idea but i won’t promote myself that way becouse everyone will see my CV with personal data that they can manipulate to scam me or other people apparenting being me.
2. My bless for that company if they do it without expecting any benefict, like a future marketing campaign.
3. Here is very hard even if you have been preparing yourself for a profesion. People with talent here use to work With other country companies in remote work.
4. I study web developing for half an a year and then pass a course of 3 months for get in my company.
5. I heard from some family members about a programming language called Apex that a company called Salesforce was developing. I start studying for this language and get some special certificacion and then i send my CV to a company that work with this new technology.
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1. It’s an interesting idea, but is very concerning that to find a job you need to buy ads to get hire.
2. It was nice to see that the company supported his idea.
3. it’s depend of the city and also the sector, but in my case where its can find more jobs in my sector is in the largest cities and that is why very easy to find a work.
4. I use linkedin and Infojobs, I can apply to positions or companies that I follow or the recruiters contact me.
5. A recruiter contacted me and we talked about the company and the job, after of that we did a couple interviews and I did test and then I was hire.
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1. A GENIUS is what I think, many times it is believed that this type of advertising is already obsolete but if we give it a good twist everything is possible
2. They helped in their own way, they did not give him a job but they did give him a lot of visibility
3. When I move from my country it took me about 8 months of active search to find a job in my discipline
4. As I work in advertising Linkedin is useful but not all jobs are found there it is rare
5.As I said on Linkedin in active search sending CV and writing a private message to HR so that my profile would stand out
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What is your opinion on Laurent Le Bret’s idea?
He is a creative person. His idea was very interesting and actrative for the companies. I think that he is looking to achieve goals. Actually, the companies look for this kind of the people. It’s very nice his idea.
What do you think about what the billboard company did for Laurent Le Bret?
The company did for Laurent Le Bret something good. This company won in advertising for help to Laurent and this show the identity the company. It doesn’t focus in get money, it works for help people too.
How easy/hard is it to find a job in your country?
It’s depend. There are professions that are very easy to find job, for example: IT, comercial, engineering, healthcare, financial analyst etc. But there are others that is very difficult, for example: architecture, hostelry, carpentry, plumber, etc.
In this time, it’s very important the technology professions because the companies want automate everything: processes, procedures, productions and aditionally, apply the inteligence artificial for get more information about its business.
How do you find a job in your country?
Actually, I don’t find new job, but I looked for a job throught linkedin, infojobs and other especialized platforms.
Talk about how you found your current job.
I found my current job through a collegue of my old job. He ask me if I want to change the job because the company want to find someone with my profile. I said to him yes and he send my CV to human resources and after, I had three job interviews: one with human resources, another with responsible of area and finally I had a interview with my actually boss.
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It doesn’t focus in get money, it works for help people too.
> It doesn’t ONLY focus ON MAKING money, BUT it ALSO works TO help people.
it’s very important the technology professions because the companies want automate everything
> the technology professions ARE VERY IMPORTANT because the companies want TO automate everything
Actually, I don’t find new job, but I looked for a job throught linkedin, infojobs and other especialized platforms.
> Actually, I AM NOT TRYING TO find A new job, but I HAVE looked for a job THROUGH linkedin, infojobs and other SPECIALIZED platforms.
He ask me if I want to change the job because the company want to find someone with my profile.
> He ASKED me if I wantED to change MY job because HIS company wantED to LOOK FOR someone with my profile.
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From my own experience, I have realized that the way to find a job has been changing along the years together with the development of the new technologies. Some years ago, there were barely 2 or 3 websites specialized in putting in contact companies with candidates; also, anually, the Universities arranged the “Empoyment Forum” which is a place where the department of human resources of different companies give support to the candidates and collect the resumes from them.
Nowadays, the number of “headhunters” has increased dramatically. Although the previous websites go on working, they are only focused on less-qualified profiles. One of the most well-known websites which has become very popular both for companies and candidates is “Linkdin” which is being used around the world and it is a very good way to post to any part of the world. Finally, some companies have created into their own website a space so that the candidates can add his/her Resume in their format and be included into the company database.
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Although the previous websites go on working, they are only focused on less-qualified profiles.
>> Although the aforementioned/above-mentioned websites go on working, they are only focused on less-qualified candidates.
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