English File 4thE - Upper-Intermediate - Colloquial English 1 - The Interview: Ryan Judd - Part 3 — Transcript

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1. 0:04[Music]
2. 0:08what can you tell us about extreme
3. 0:10interviewing that is asking candidates
4. 0:13very strange questions like what
5. 0:15dinosaur would you be
6. 0:17okay
7. 0:18extreme interviewing is a technique used
8. 0:20by recruiters to put the candidate in a
9. 0:23situation that they may not have been in
10. 0:25before
11. 0:26or to
12. 0:28put them give them a scenario where they
13. 0:30have to think quickly where they have to
14. 0:31digest information where they perhaps
15. 0:33have to problem solve before giving an
16. 0:35answer
17. 0:37have you used it yourself
18. 0:39it's not something i have direct
19. 0:40experience of but i am aware of some of
20. 0:42the techniques that are used and some of
21. 0:43the questions that could be used
22. 0:46i was reading recently about
23. 0:49extreme interviewing techniques used for
24. 0:50an insurance company
25. 0:52they asked candidates to describe if
26. 0:56they asked candidates during the
27. 0:57interview how they would describe
28. 0:59facebook to their grandmother
29. 1:02what the recruiter was looking for was
30. 1:04for that candidate to display an element
31. 1:07of
32. 1:09technical skills and technical awareness
33. 1:12also to display communication skills and
34. 1:14how they would explain facebook to an
35. 1:17audience or to somebody who doesn't
36. 1:19understand modern technology or modern
37. 1:21social media
38. 1:23do you have any others one i was reading
39. 1:26about recently was poster candidates
40. 1:29during an interview
41. 1:30where they were looking to assess a
42. 1:32candidate's ability to multitask the
43. 1:35candidates were asked whether they would
44. 1:37want to fight
45. 1:39a horse-sized duck or a hundred
46. 1:42duck-sized horses
47. 1:44depending on the answer one or a hundred
48. 1:47that would potentially dictate whether
49. 1:49that candidate was most comfortable
50. 1:51multitasking or dealing with one
51. 1:54situation or one objective at a time
52. 1:58what would your answer to that question
53. 1:59have been
54. 2:02i
55. 2:03when i read it i had to reread it four
56. 2:05times and that's just me reading it in
57. 2:07an interview i would have had to have
58. 2:09asked that question to be repeated
59. 2:11and i'm not even sure if i would have
60. 2:14been able to give an immediate response
61. 2:15because i would still be trying to
62. 2:17understand what exactly they were asking
63. 2:19of me
64. 2:20i guess for me personally
65. 2:22when i thought about it i would have
66. 2:23said one horse sized duck
67. 2:27um but that would potentially mean that
68. 2:29i'm not able to multitask so