I – Interviewer, S G – Stephanie Grant

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 459.

I – Interviewer, B W – Bob Wills

I – You are obviously eager to get this job? Could you tell me what your strengths are?

What do you think you are good at?

B W – Main strengths? Good at managing people, I'd say. I suppose it's my army

training. I know how to set goals for people. Objectives. And I'm sure they

meet them.

I – Hmm, don't you think some people might get upset, you know, lose their

motivation if they don't achieve the goals you set?

B W – Not at all. You don't get anywhere in this life if you are too easy on people.

You've got to make an effort to get anywhere. Like your health club customers.

If they want to get fit, they've got to have discipline. Do all the exercises, eat

properly, give up alcohol and smoking. Change their lifestyle – that's what it's

all about.

I – Mmm, interesting! A final question. Maybe a difficult one. Could you tell me how

you've changed in the last … oh … five years, let's say.

B W – Sure. I think I'm more realistic now than I used to be. I know it'll be difficult

for me to get a good job – being in the army most of my life. So, I'm trying to

learn new skills, update my knowledge. Like in marketing and finance. So, I'll

have more to offer an employer. I'm not going to sit around waiting for the big

job to come to me – it's not my style.

I - Right, Can you tell me why you want to leave your present job, TV announcer?

Well paid. Everyone knows you. Admires you. You've got everything you want,

don't you?

S G – Huh, I guess it does look like that. I do love the job. But I'm thirty now. I know

the management is looking for younger talent. It wants sparky, glamorous

twenty-year-olds in the job. To increase the ratings. I'm on the way out, I know

that. So … I'm going before I'm pushed.

I – Oh, sure not. Someone with your reputation.

S G - People come and go in my profession. Think of all the stars of ten years ago.

Where are they now?

I – Mmm, I take your point. Um, looking at your CV, your earlier career. You gave up

competitive swimming when you were …er …twenty four. Rather early to do that,

wasn't it? I mean, don't swimmers go on competing …?

S G – Look, I'm sure you read the papers. You must know, when I won the big races,

some of the swimmers accused me of taking drugs. You know, to improve my

performance. It was horrible. All a bunch of lies. I got really upset, I thought,

oh, I don't need this nonsense. I just gave it all up. I'd had enough.