By Interviews, Tenses

This claim is outrageously "over-the-top"!!! No employer in his right mind would reject a candidate on the basis of a single word. Employers are much more interested in whether the candidate can do the job. Word choice is not at issue in 99.9% of jobs typically available to job...

Would you please correct this paragraph for me? I'm more concerned with tenses. Thanks. Having considered the importance of piloting my interview schedules, and bearing in mind the issue of time limitations, I decided to allocate the first week of my fieldwork to the pilot phase. The...

I think you are right, RayH. The reason why I used the past tense when I referred to my interviewees is that the interviews took place in the past (two years ago). I got only confused when I attempted to translate the rest of the sentence. I undertook these interviews in Arabic and the tense my...

How about when one is wirting in reported speech, as in recording the notes of a meeting?Would you then wirte "The chairperson suggested that the committee liaised with relevent organisations.." or should the present tense "liaise" be used as it was a proposal from the...

Magic-dragon wrote:－－Hi, Tarkowsky. In B, I meant to express the duration of the act of having a job interview. So I'd like an explanation of the difference in this terms. Is B awkward as a sentence expressing Duration? If your intent was to stress the duration of the action I would go for...

Today is Tuesday,September 12, 2007 . I was joint a interview in S-Fone corp . It’s hard to pass because it’s very difficult . IQ part I did quite well but english part I did very bad .Tuesday next week , the result of interview will report, I am very worry because I am afraid i will be...

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...

I belong to a country where English is used as a second language, so it is not my first language. A few days ago I appeared in an interview for the post of English Teacher. I want to share a few points of that interview for your worthy comments. I use A for interviewer and B for myself. ...

But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam ‐‐ famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement ‐‐ has found that the greater the diversity in a...

CalifJim wrote: I know that we use Present Perfect simple when an action or situation started in the past and still continues in the present.<>So he's still working for XYZ.I think we've been around this block quite a few times, but apparently we still haven't seen all the sights, so...