実践ビジネス英語ディクテーション (aired 8/28,29)

こんにちは。実践ビジネス英語Talk the Talkコーナーのディクテーションです。
番組の8月後半のテーマは、‘Recovering Job Market’（労働市場に明るい兆しが）でした。雇用市場の改善に伴い、優秀な人材を確保するための企業間の競争は激しさを増しているそうです。Vignetteでは、ヘッドハンターが注目する人材について、また、採用の際に重視される資質などが話題になりました。
”Talk the Talk”では、Heatherさんの職歴、転職の理由などが語られます。
なお、"Talk the Talk"ディクテーションの公開は、今回をもちましていったん終了とさせて頂きます。本日までお読みいただき、ありがとうございました。

Recovering Job Market
（S: 杉田敏先生　H: Heather Howardさん）

S: Now, our current vignette talks about the recovering job market and how conditions are much better now for people looking for work.
Tell us about your job history over the years, Heather?

H: My adult job history has all been in Japan, actually.
I came here right after graduation on a government program that dispatches foreigners to work in Japanese schools teaching English or to government offices to assist with various English-related tasks.
I was in the latter group; I was assigned to a city hall. I worked there for about eight months, helping communicate with their many sister cities, among other things.
After that, I worked at an investor relations company as a translator, again for about eight or nine months.
Then I joined my newspaper, where I’ve been ever since.

S: So, both your first jobs only lasted about three quarters of a year. Why was that?

H: Well, with the first job, I had decided to stay just a year. I wanted to get a job in the business world.
However, the program I was in required you to decide well in advance whether or not you were going to stay another year.
I don’t remember exactly, but it was several months in advance at least.
The problem was companies are not going to wait at least several months for a new　hire to start working.
They want you within a month, tops.
So when I was offered my second job as a translator, I asked my supervisors at the city hall if I could be released early from the program.
I will always be grateful for their generosity and understanding―they said yes right away and never made a single complaint.

S: That was good of them. So, what happened with the second job?

H: I think it was a bit of youthful impetuosity there.
Other employees had told me that it was customary to get a raise after working through one’s first busy season at the company.
For whatever reason, I wasn’t offered one.
So, I got miffed and started looking through the want ads.
I found an ad there from my current company, went in for an interview and the rest was history.
I wouldn’t make such an impulsive decision these days.
But when you are in your early twenties, you know, footloose and fancy-free…

S: And you’ve been at your current company for twenty-one years now. Wow!

H: Yes, it’s hard to believe sometimes.
Though, I feel like I’ve worked at several different companies.
While I’ve been there I worked at the English paper in the company’s online section, and on television.
So it hasn’t been all the same thing for twenty-one years.

S: The vignette also talks about the qualities managers are looking for when they hire people.
What would you look for if you’re taking on new staff, Heather?

H: I’d focus on whether the person is a team player. That may sound cliché, but it’s so important to the overall atmosphere of an office.
I’ve had to deal with people in the past who were so convinced they were right, they just barreled over everybody.
They didn’t discuss, they pronounced.
And if you dared to disagree with them or contradict them, oh, you were just the biggest idiot they’d ever met.
Even if you are right, you can’t behave that way.
You have to be considerate of other people’s feelings, you have to find a way to literally work together.

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