Chemie Verband Feedback - Specialist Language Services
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Chemie Verband Feedback - Specialist Language Services
12 | 2014 festgehalten Die Veranstaltungen der Chemieverbände Rheinland-pfalz INHALT How to do a safety walk Recuitment and selection Meetings English for HR personnel Germanys social system nachgefragt This festgehalten is written in English. Why? Because it is a summary of an English training that the employer association organized for the HR personnel of its member companies. For this training, the employer association invited a trainer who not only had a lot of experience in courses for business personnel, but also was familiar with the German chemical industry and its characteristics. Right from the start English was the language of choice. Naturally also during the breaks. Thanks to this the attendees very quickly began to speak fluently and gained more and more confidence. And ultimately this was the goal of this workshop. English in business is indispensable. How good are your English skills? The training offered plenty of opportunities for practice, role play and team work. The course participants learned the important terms for their HR work, including vocabulary for legal and safety issues. More over the attendees trained their presentation skills, e.g. as they presented a profile of their employer. In this festgehalten, we sum up the main topics discussed and the most common phrases presented. Stefanie Lenze | Chemieverbände RheinlandPfalz English for HR personnel | Deidesheim Recruitment and selection During the training the participants talked about HR, their role and res ponsibilities. A main field of HR activity is the recruiting process. These terms might be useful if you deal with international job applications. Job application vocational training Ausbildung job applicant Bewerber application Bewerbung application form die (schriftliche) Bewerbung experience Erfahrung desirables skills gewünschte Fähigkeiten job offer Jobangebot essential skills notwendige Fähigkeiten qualification Qualfizierung Recruitment process carry out a CRB check Polizeiliches Führungszeugnis checken head-hunter Headhunter job specification Anforderungsprofil Imagine you have successfully interviewed a job applicant. Now you want to show your visitor around your factory site. The tour could go off like this: shortlist Engere Auswahl succession planning Nachfolgeplanung „Let’s have a look at the site. Before we begin the tour, I need to issue you with some protective clothing, and talk you through some basic Health and Safety procedures. Let’s go through to the changing room. It is here next to the entrance of this floor. take up the references Die Referenzen eines Bewerbers checken employment contract Arbeitsvertrag If you’d like to take your jacket off. You can leave them in the lockers over here. I think one of these coats will fit you. And you’ll need safety shoes as well. You can leave your shoes beneath the chairs. And I’ll give you a safety helmet and goggles. You’ll need a hair net as well. interviewer der Interviewer interviewee der Interviewte personell development Personalentwicklung notice period Kündigungsfrist probation Probezeit selection interviewing Bewerbungsgespräch training needs Qualifizierungsbedarf working time directive Arbeitszeitvereinbarung How to do a safety walk If you need a rest room, you’ll find it between the planning office and the kitchen. It is opposite the mail room, on the left. We’ll be passing through some busy areas, so for your health and safety, could you please follow the walkway. It is important that you stay between the yellow lines, as many forklift trucks go throughout the factory site. Follow me please. I don’t think we need the elevator. We’ll take the stairs down to the first floor.” A little bit of grammar What is possible, impossible, necessary, obligatory or forbidden? can= possible can’t= impossible must= necessary / obligatory strong! mustn’t = prohibited / forbidden have to = necessary / obligatory don’t have to = it isn’t necessary Interviewing 12/2014 Meetings During the training the participants spent a lot of time discussing the various aspects of their work as HR professionals. During role plays, they learned how to give their opinions and how to chair a meeting. These expressions can help you structure the conversation. How to open the meeting Shall we start? Right, if everyone’s ready we can begin. Let’s get straight down to business. How to start the discussion As you know, we’re here today to… Could you give us your views to…? How to give opinions, to agree and disagree I’m convinced (that)… The way I see it… How about you? I’m afraid I disagree. I see what you mean. However… I totally agree with you on that point. How to interrupt Could I just interrupt at this point? Sorry to butt in, but… How to accept or reject an interruption Please do. Go ahead. Just let me finish making my point. One moment, please. Germanys social system Germany has an elaborate social security system that contains several types of insurance covering areas such as health, nursing care, pensions, unemployment and accidents. If you need to explain the role of compa nies in the German welfare system or their current challenges, this list will be of use. ageing workforce alternde Belegschaft demographic change Demografischer Wandel How to get back to the point Could we go back to the subject under discussion? We seem to be getting off the point, here. early retirement (vorgezogener) Renteneintritt flexible working flexible Arbeitszeiten employer association Arbeitgeberverband How to move to the next point That brings us to the next item on the agenda… Can we look at the next issue? industrial politics Industriepolitik pension agreement pension providers: company pension private pension state pension Rentenvereinbarung remuneration/agreement master collective agreement Tarifvertrag Manteltarifvertrag remuneration policy Tarifpolitik small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMUs) social partnership Sozialpartnerschaft social system Sozialsystem trade union Gewerkschaft welfare and employment politics Sozialpolitik work council Betriebsrat How to summarise and close the meeting We’ve had a lively discussion. Thank you all for your input. See you next Wednesday at the same time. Let’s close the meeting and agree a time for the next one. Websites for practising your English The BBC offers an online service with free audio, video and text materials: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/ If you want to read newspapers, you can find at http://www.thepaperboy.com/ all newspapers from UK or USA. At http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/ you meet up with a native speaker who skypes with you – a great chance to improve your speaking skills and to learn a lot about different cultures. Betriebsrente Rente aus privater Altersvorsorge gesetzliche Rente English for HR personnel | Deidesheim nachgefragt David Wilson is Senior Instructor at Specialist Language Services (SLS). What do you recommend if someone wants to practice on a daily basis? Start with common and trivial words and make a plan. Say, learn seven words every week: one word a day. Of course it helps if you read or listen to the news in English every day, for example, when you have a lunch or coffee break. If someone wants to improve his or her English level – where should he or she begin? Mr. Wilson, if someone doesn’t feel comfortable speaking English, and is afraid to make mistakes, what do you think might help them to gain more confidence? Don’t worry if you don’t understand single words, because language is a matter of context. Learning English is like saving money. You don’t see the effect after a week, but only after a month or two. You should certainly notice an improvement after three to six months. Actively look for oppor tunities to speak English: at work, online, anywhere. Enjoy saying what you can say. Don’t focus on what you can’t say. And, above all, don’t worry about making mistakes. Just have a go and try to communicate. It’s practice more than anything. Don’t think so much of English in terms of level. Level is an artificial concept in communication, invented by language schools and teachers. There will always be people with a „higher level” than you, and also with a „lower level”. In the real world we need to learn to communicate with people who are „better” at English than us, and with those who are „worse”. If you must compete, compete with yourself over time. For example, say to yourself: „I’m better now than I was three months ago”. And to get there you need to look for opportunities to speak and listen to English wherever you can, and try to use the language (however briefly) every day if possible. Start with something you already know. It’s easier and more useful to learn phrases and expressions than single words because they have a context. For help with technical and specialist HR words I recommend that you use www.dict.leo.org. „The course was well structured and we had a lot of fun learning. There was time for questions and spontaneous discussions about topics which weren’t on the agenda.” Thomas Gauza Impressum Herausgeber: Chemieverbände Rheinland-Pfalz, Bahnhofstraße 48, 67059 Ludwigshafen, Telefon 06 21-5 20 56 ‑0, Telefax 06 21‑5 20 56 ‑20, [email protected], www.chemie-rp.de, Redaktion: Stefanie Lenze, Fotos: Marcel Hasübert, mh-foto.de, Gestaltung: [email protected], Köln, Druck: Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH, Römerberg-Berghausen, Auflage: 400, Stand: Dezember 2014. Die Veranstaltung fand am 21.–23. Juli 2014 in Deidesheim statt.