Filling a Managerial Position
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ID: 1894
Upper Intermediate
When a high-level manager departs for greener pastures it's often difficult to find an able replacement. Today's dialogue features a debate between two high-level executives deciding how to fill a recently-vacated managerial position within the company: through making a new hire or an inner promotion. Find out how they decide to act while learning some useful business-related Mandarin vocab in today's upper-intermediate lesson.
Jenny,John
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| SIMPLIFIED | PINYIN | ENGLISH | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 进展 | jìnzhǎn | development | |
| 委托 | wěituō | to entrust | |
| 猎头 | liètóu | headhunter | |
| 猎头公司 | liètóu gōngsī | headhunting company |
小卫市场部经理的招聘工作有进展吗
Xiǎo Wèi 小卫shìchǎng bù 市场部jīnglǐ 经理de 的zhāopìn 招聘gōngzuò 工作yǒu 有jìnzhǎn 进展ma 吗
Xiao Wei, have we made any progress in hiring a new marketing department manager?
钱总我们已经委托了猎头公司但还没得到满意的答复不过即使高薪从对手公司挖来人才也不一定能很快了解我们公司的情况
Qián zǒng 钱总wǒmen 我们yǐjīng 已经wěituō 委托le 了liètóu 猎头gōngsī 公司dàn 但hái 还méi 没dédào 得到mǎnyì 满意de 的dáfù 答复bùguò 不过jíshǐ 即使gāoxīn 高薪cóng 从duìshǒu 对手gōngsī 公司wā 挖lái 来réncái 人才yě 也bù 不yīdìng 一定néng 能hěnkuài 很快liǎojiě 了解wǒmen 我们gōngsī 公司de 的qíngkuàng 情况
We've already hired a headhunting agency, President Qian, but we still haven't received any satisfactory responses. However, even if we're able to use a high salary to poach a talented person from a competing company, they won't necessarily be able to quickly get acclimated to our company.
说的是
shuōdeshì 说的是
That is true.
我们要不要考虑内部提拔
wǒmen 我们yào 要bù yào 不要kǎolǜ 考虑nèibù 内部tíbá 提拔
Should we consider promoting someone from within the company?
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