Normally, if you are caught telling a lie during an interview or on your CV, you wouldn't be offered a job. If the lie is found out after you've been given the job, you would normally be fired. Normally.
However, in the popular TV series The Apprentice, which is pretty similar to Germany's Next Top Model only with people competing for a job in a top company instead of for a contract as a model — the person who got the job at the end of one series had lied on his CV. That can't be right, can it? Lee McQueen, the winner who was hired by Sir Alan Sugar for a £100,000 job, had claimed that he'd completed two years of a university course, when in fact he'd only done a couple of months.
His barefaced lie was uncovered by one of the probing questions in one of the many gruelling interviews he went through during the programme.
Normally, I'd warn against lying in job applications or interviews, too. But it was McQueen's other behaviour that I'd like to warn against today. Watch the short clip to the end to see what I mean. I think you'll agree that nobody should try to do such impressions in an interview. Maybe on the male version of Germany's Next Top Model. There, McQueen might make quite a good impression.
Watch the video, listen out for interview expressions, and then try our vocabulary exercise.
Deborah Capras
Lüge
Bewerbungsgespräch
Lebenslauf
unverfroren
bohrende Frage
aufreibend
Bewerbung
do an impression - jmdn. imitieren
einen guten Eindruck
COMMENTS
First I didn't find the video. Then I discovered it in the little frame with the title "Tags"! There it is!!!