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Factors That Lead The Students Fail Job Interviews

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Having taught hundreds of adult learners of English, many of whom were desperately looking for work in Sydney, one of the most expensive cities in the world, I have come to notice a number of factors that lead the students to fail job interviews. To apply for jobs looking for "bubbly" personalities Be realistic. Know your strengths and weaknesses. You might be "bubbly" in your language but are you in English? "Bubbly" people are obviously people who never shut up, they 're like a chatterbox, very talkative, get it? So, to be "bubbly", you need to have so many words "bubbling" in you and out of you, which is most probably not going to be the case if you 're still learning English and are not very fluent yet. To use long difficult words to impress Yes yes I know that 's all you know, especially if you started off learning the language through reading and writing. The thing is most people are not comfortable listening to that sort of formal language, it sounds very artificial. They prefer more standard, more natural language. Why? Because it is just easier to understand and relate to. We call that "colloquialism". Do NOT confuse colloquialism with slang. They 're NOT the same. Yes they do have much in common, but they 're not the same. Colloquialism is the standard everyday language that we all speak, regardless of where we 're from, whether you 're from the US, Britain or Australia, you will more often say "get in" instead of "enter", "run away" instead of "escape",

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