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Answer the questions:
1.What’s the nature of Red Monro’s injury?
2.Is there a replacement for him?
3.What candidates are discussed?
4.How do they plan to find the candidate?
Exercise 4.
A. Read this article from the Financial Times about the headhunting profession, and answer the questions.
POACHER TURNED TV STAR –
DO HEADHUNTERS DESERVE THEIR BBC IMAGE?
Last night’s episode of Headhunters, a new BBC drama, does not present the trade in its most flattering light. Hall works for one of London’s foremost headhunting firms, where he spends his time on the mobile phone in constant search of bodies to ‘poach’. A client wants to hire an entertainment lawyer: Hall does better by persuading him to poach
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a whole team. When the head of the old law firm finds out that his valuable assets are about to leave he is so upset he kills himself.
1. What is normally ‘poached’ and from where?
Headhunters have never been the most respected profession, but the message from the BBC seems to be that their ruthless tactics are pushing them to new depths of unpopularity.
2.If you use ruthless tactics, do you consider the feelings of other people? Does
‘ruthless’ show approval or disapproval of these tactics?
Tim Clark, an expert on headhunters at the Open University, argues that the business does not deserve a bad name. He says that from the beginning people have viewed headhunting as a secretive, underhand business, disliking the process by which individuals are approached discreetly and persuaded to move jobs. ‘It’s an easy industry to pick on. So much of the business is confidential. People don’t know the full facts.’
3.If you describe an activity as underhand, do you approve of it?
4.If X picks on Y, is Y able to defend himself or herself properly?
So what are the facts? Is there a moral problem with poaching? Might it be the responsibility of the headhunter to think about the mess that a person leaves behind when they change jobs?
‘The work is very sensitive,’ says Ian Butcher of Whitehead Mann. “You can create problems if you take out key people. But most senior business people recognize that that is part of the game. In any case, our loyalty is to the client.’ ...
5.Does Ian Butcher sympathize with the companies that he persuades people to leave?
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B. Read and translate the following sentences.
Mr. Malpas, 62, was headhunted from BP to take on the chairman’s job and is believed to have been on a salary of about $200,000.
Forgan is being recommended for the post of director of corporate affairs by the headhunters employed by the BBC to fill the $120,000-a-year post.
Coddard Kay Rogers, one of the biggest names in the headhunting industry, has found that the search is not so easy when it is closest to home. After some time looking for an American consultant to head its office in New York, it has finally found the right person just up the road in London.
NEW CHIEF AT TROUBLED IBM PICKS UP $5 MILLION ‘GOLDEN HELLO’. The new chief of IBM, Louis Gerstner, will earn a basic salary of $2 million a year and receive a one-off payment of $5 million for leaving his present job as chairman of the food and tobacco giant RJR Nabisco.
Exercise 5. Sum up what you have learned about Samex.
Exercise 6. Translate the following sentences:
1.Новаторская работа компании в области полуподводных платформ внесла большой вклад в развитие оффшорной нефтяной промышленности.
2.Вначале этот нефтяной район считался неэкономичным, но в результате улучшения технологии этот проект стал экономически рентабельным.
3.Применение этой платформы даст значительную экономию затрат и на строительство и на установку.
4.Планируется, что производство достигнет максимума в 45 000 баррелей в день.
5.В прошлом полуподводные платформы использовались лишь для бурения пробных скважин.
6.Если Самекс не уложится в запланированные сроки, ему придётся платить штраф.