Learning activity 4

Evidence: Job interview

Imagine you are applying for a new job. Below you will find some common job
interview questions. For this evidence, you have to record yourself while you
answer them. Dress up. Look professional. Pay attention to your body language.
Show you really want to get that job. Remember to use the grammar structures
and vocabulary you have practiced within this learning activity.

Fuente: Fotolia (s.f.)

1. If you could start your career over again, what would you do differently?
First of all, I would start my musical training at school age with professional
teachers, for several years I had empirical teachers in my first training and the
results weren't the best.

2. During your performance reviews, what criticism do you hear the most?
Sometimes I have heard criticism from colleagues for lack of a good performance
in their sight reading of the scores, also, because they cannot transmit the
musical knowledge with a good pedagogy.

3. Tell me about your last position?

I am currently a director of Scherzando, I am its founder and owner.

4. What is your work philosophy?

try to make my students understand in an entertaining and fun way the musical
concepts that pertain to the repertoire they are learning. I think this allows them
to move forward out in a better interpretation of the repertoire they yearn to
play.

5. How have you changed professionally speaking in the last two years?
I believe that I am more calm and analytical to present the piano technique to each
student, I am convinced that each student learns in a different way. The key is
to identify the most effective medium for each piano student.

6. Tell me about the best manager you have ever had.

Maestro Aurelio was one of the best. I managed to advance in my instrumental

level despite the poor training that I had had with empirical teachers that I had
previously.

7. What were the most memorable accomplishments in your last position?

I have been serving as a principal of Scherzando for the past 18 years. I have
managed to position the brand and the academy today has students in Bogota
and its surroundings, it also has students in Panama, Chile and the United
States.

8. Why do you want to leave your current job?

I don't want to quit. I'm just looking for alternative experiences to what I do
regularly at Scherzando.

9. In your previous position, how much time did you spend learning how to do
things better? I believe that in my position you always learn to do things better,
the continuous evolution to offer more quality is part of the position. For
example, now in the middle of the pandemic, the virtual classes that we offer
have greatly improved their quality of transmission.

10. If you’re very happy with your current job, why do you want to leave? As I
mentioned before, I do not want to leave my current position, I only want to
have alternative activities at my address in Scherzando, I long to have more
experiences in institutions other than the one I direct.
When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform as
follows:

1. Click on Ver Evidencia.

2. Attach the file which must be previously saved on the computer.
3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional).

Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning

guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.

Criterios de evaluación
 Usa el vocabulario relacionado con carreras y empleos teniendo en cuenta el
contexto requerido.

 Intercambia información personal para postularse a un empleo teniendo en

cuenta la estructura gramatical y vocabulario requeridos.

 Describe características personales teniendo en cuenta el vocabulario y

contexto requerido.

 Utiliza verbos compuestos teniendo en cuenta la estructura gramatical

requerida.

References

Fotolia. (s.f.). Business associates shaking hands in office. Consultado el 17 de

Octubre de 2014, en http://co.fotolia.com/id/63781536