Job interviews and the first week at work
HR English is a vocabulary set: position, experience, strength, candidate, benefits, onboarding. The register is polite and indirect — I am looking for, We will contact you — so practice holding longer, softer sentences in memory before you type.
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1Thank you for coming in to interview for the marketing position.
- 2Could you tell us briefly about your previous work experience?
- 3I spent three years managing social media for a small travel agency.
- 4Why do you want to leave your current company?
- 5I am looking for a role with more room to grow.
- 6What would you say is your greatest strength at work?
- 7I stay calm under pressure and never miss a deadline.
- 8Do you have any questions about the position or the team?
- 9When can we expect to hear back about the final decision?
- 10We will contact every candidate by the end of next week.
- 11Welcome aboard, let me show you to your new desk.
- 12Your badge opens the main door and the parking garage.
- 13Human resources will explain the benefits package on your first day.
- 14Feel free to ask your team leader anything during training.
- 15We are really glad to have you on the team.
FAQ
- How does this dictation practice work?
- Play a sentence, type exactly what you hear, then press check — Dictation Trainer shows word-level feedback: which words you misheard, misspelled, confused for a homophone, or missed.
- Do I need an account, and is it free?
- You can read the sentences here without signing up. To practice with audio and save progress, create a free account — practice runs on Echoes you earn for free, starting with 100.
- What level is this lesson?
- This lesson is graded B1 on the CEFR scale and has 15 sentences. Dictation Trainer lessons currently run from A1 to B2, with more lessons on the way.