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Unit 3 Recruitment - Headhunting

Unit 3 Recruitment - Headhunting. Objectives. To match functions with sentences in a text To understand cohesion and coherence above sentence level. Recruitment Methods. Understanding the Meaning of Words in Context. Warm-up activity

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Unit 3 Recruitment - Headhunting

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  1. Unit 3Recruitment - Headhunting Objectives To match functions with sentences in a text To understand cohesion and coherence above sentence level

  2. Recruitment Methods

  3. Understanding the Meaning of Words in Context Warm-up activity Read the whole text. While you read, mark out the following words or phrases in the text. niche, on the market, Achilles heel, fed up with, blunt, on the increase, have sth up one’s sleeve, adjacent, divulge, navigate, come across

  4. Probe Can you match the word list in the left column with the definitions in the right column? niche on the market Achilles heel fed up with blunt come across on the increase have sth up one’s sleeve divulge adjacent navigate offered for sale meet or find by chance make known (sth secret) weak or vulnerable point tired or bored situated close to abrupt and frank in speech locate the position of keep sth secret for use when needed suitable or comfortable position or job

  5. Why does headhunting work? • According to Macaulay: • Clients (companies) need to fill a ______________role. They need to fill an important or highly-specialized role and think tradition advertising would not be effective. • 99% of the people they need are not actively _______________. • Professionals who are happy in their job have an _______________: maybe they are _____________ the company; maybe they want more money; or they want a change of location. • According to Netsearch: • Relatively cheap • On the increase as selection gets worse. • Netsearch is more ______________ that Macaulay about the reason why headhunting works.

  6. Understanding the functions of the following sentences in the text

  7. Three logical semantic relations Elaborating = Extending + Enhancing ×

  8. Emphasizing a claim with evidence (Enhancing)

  9. Providing details as examples (Elaborating)

  10. Comparing the manners to give reasons (Extending)

  11. Categorizing and defining recruiting processes (Elaborating)

  12. Contrasting selection and searching in terms of efficiency (Extending)

  13. How do headhunters search? Headhunters _____________________________ to produce a shorter, better quality list of candidates. If he had one name and extension number, he would have a good idea of who everyone in the department is and what they do. By a simple process of ___________, it is then easy to work out that person’s position in the company; if people are sitting at ___________ desks, the chances are that they are in similar roles.

  14. Headhunters’ access to names(text coherence resource – reference) One thing all of this makes clear is the importance of names. Any name a headhunter come across is written down and put on record. This process has been made much easier with the invention of e-mail, which indicates a person’s name, employer and even the department they work in. Companies like Netsearch constantly monitor such forums hunting for potential candidates.

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