GSYH 03 İş Kelime Bilgisi – Ofis Yöneticisi

Today’s podcast continues our series on business vocabulary, with a special focus on collocations or word partnerships. By focusing on words that are commonly used together you can improve your vocabulary and also your ability to understand your English-speaking colleagues.

Düşündüğün zaman “office administration”, what are the first things that come to mind? They might be things like paperwork, dosyalama, copying, and other boring and repetitive tasks. Most people probably don’t think of an office manager’s job as a crucial service that supports the successful running of a company and, Öyleyse, its ability to make money.

Kuyu, today we’re about to meet Thomas, who’s going to tell us about the role he plays as office manager at the Mexican subsidiary of a multinational chemical company.

Dinleme Soruları

1) How does Thomas summarize his role as Office Manager?
2) What characteristics does Thomas list as important qualities of an office manager?
3) According to Thomas, what is a common misunderstanding about the best way for an office manager to do his job?

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BEP 97 – Ekonomi Hakkında Konuşma

Bu İş İngilizcesi Podcast dersinde, ekonomiyi ve ekonomik konuları tartışmak için kullanabileceğiniz bazı kelime öbekleri ve kelimeler üzerinde çalışacağız, endişeleri dile getirme ve güvence verme dahil.

Çinli izleyiciye Sichuan'daki son depremle ilgili sempatimizi ve desteğimizi ifade etmek istiyoruz,Ve afet bölgesindeki insanların en kısa sürede depremden kurtulacağını umuyoruz。

Hiçbir anlaşma yapılmaz, sözleşme imzalanmadı, iki kişi veya iki şirket arasında hiçbir iş yapılmaz. Her şey yerel ilişkiler ağlarının arka planında gerçekleşir, bölgesel, ve küresel ölçekler. Fiyat ve üretim arasındaki bu ilişkiler, “Ekonomi.” Ekonomiyi inceleyen insanlar – ekonomistler – işaret etmek isterim, Örneğin, Brezilya'daki soya fasulyesi fiyatının Çin'deki et fiyatını etkileyebileceğini. Şaşılacak bir şey yok, sonra, her yerde iş insanlarının favori faaliyetlerinin ekonomi hakkında konuştuğu. Sadece iş yaptığımız ekonomik çevreyi anlayarak etkin bir şekilde çalışabiliriz.

Bugünkü diyalog Kendal Marcus'da gerçekleşiyor, up market giyim ve aksesuarlarının global perakendecisi. Bir perakendeci son müşteriye mal satıyor; aksesuarlar takı ve kemerler gibi “aksesuar” Giyim. Şanghay gezisi sırasında, kırlangıç, Kendal’da Başkan Yardımcısı, Tony Wu'yu ziyaret ediyor, Çin ülke müdürü.

Dinleme Soruları:

1) Martin neden Çin'e geldi??
2) Tony ekonomik görünüm konusunda iyimser mi?, gelecek bu, Çin'de?
3) Martin'in ne tür endişeleri var??
4) Tony ona nasıl güvence verir??

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GSYH 02 – İnsan kaynakları: Eğitim Koçu

In the second part of our new ESL podcast series on business vocabulary, we continue with the topic of insan kaynakları (İK) by looking at useful language and collocations to describe the role and responsibilities of a training manager.

In this fast-changing global world, everything is moving. To make a successful business, it’s not enough just to follow yesterday’s trend. Companies and people need to constantly acquire new skills to succeed in tomorrow’s marketplace. This means driving new training initiatives to enhance performance. Fakat, not all training is equally successful. To ensure training effectiveness, it’s important to track results and to have standard criteria for measuring outcomes.

Bu podcast'te, we’ll listen to Andrea, a training manager, describing her function and responsibilities. Afterwards, we’ll study some key vocabulary. Then we’ll practice what we’ve learned.

Dinleme Soruları

1) What kind of training programs does Andrea run?
2) Does Andrea work with vendors? What for?
3) What do the five letters in SMART stand for?

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GSYH 01 – İnsan kaynakları: İK Yöneticisi

Today we’re kicking off a new series of ESL business vocabulary podcasts based on people talking about their jobs. In these episodes, we’ll learn vocabulary and language that are useful across a wide range of different professions and industries.

In this podcast we’ll hear an HR manager, Greg, describe his work and responsibilities. Afterwards, we’ll study some key vocabulary. In particular we’ll be focusing on how words are collocated, or used together. Then we’ll practice what we’ve learned.

When we think about human resource managers, many of us just think of hiring and firing, but actually, as Greg explains, the job involves a lot more than that. HR handles everything from job evaluations to settling disagreements between workers and management.

Dinleme Soruları

1) What type of employment programs does Greg develop and manage?
2) Are there several HR managers or only one in Greg’s company?
3) Greg says that HR managers play a special role in companies that are unionized. What is this role?

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BEP 74 – İngilizce deyimler: İş Savaştır (2)

This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series on English idioms related to war.

Everywhere you look in business, you will find the language of war: We often thinkand talkabout business competition in terms of attacking and defending, gaining and losing ground.

During the first business ESL podcast in this series, we studied many such war and military related idioms. We learned the meaning oftaking flak,” “reinforcing one’s position,” “laying low,” “making a moveand many others. Bu podcast'te, we will continue exploring useful war idioms.

The dialog picks up where we left off at the Luminex management meeting. Jane has just explained that they need to thinkstrategically.He explains that this meanslaying low,” by which he means waiting to take action until the economy improves.

Dinledikçe, pay attention to the war idioms Jane and her colleagues use. You may not understand them the first time. After you hear the debrief, go back and listen again, then things should be much clearer.

Dinleme Soruları

1) What does Jane mean when she says their competitor, Meyers, is its own worst enemy?
2) The speakers describe their new strategy as anambushthat willsurroundMeyers. Why do they say this? What is the strategy?

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