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Filling a Managerial Position

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ID: 1894 Upper Intermediate
When a high-level manager departs for greener pastures it's often difficult to find an able replacement. Today's dialogue features a debate between two high-level executives deciding how to fill a recently-vacated managerial position within the company: through making a new hire or an inner promotion. Find out how they decide to act while learning some useful business-related Mandarin vocab in today's upper-intermediate lesson.
Wed Mar 21 2012 | Jenny, John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
进展 jìnzhǎn development
委托 wěituō to entrust
猎头 liètóu headhunter
猎头公司 liètóu gōngsī headhunting company
小卫，市场部经理的招聘工作有进展吗？
Xiǎo Wèi ，shìchǎng bù jīnglǐ de zhāopìn gōngzuò yǒu jìnzhǎn ma ？
Xiao Wei, have we made any progress in hiring a new marketing department manager?
钱总，我们已经委托了猎头公司，但还没得到满意的答复。不过即使高薪从对手公司挖来人才，也不一定能很快了解我们公司的情况。
Qián zǒng ，wǒmen yǐjīng wěituō le liètóu gōngsī ，dàn hái méi dédào mǎnyì de dáfù 。bùguò jíshǐ gāoxīn cóng duìshǒu gōngsī wā lái réncái ，yě bù yīdìng néng hěnkuài liǎojiě wǒmen gōngsī de qíngkuàng 。
We've already hired a headhunting agency, President Qian, but we still haven't received any satisfactory responses. However, even if we're able to use a high salary to poach a talented person from a competing company, they won't necessarily be able to quickly get acclimated to our company.
说的是。
shuōdeshì 。
That is true.
我们要不要考虑内部提拔？
wǒmen yào bù yào kǎolǜ nèibù tíbá ？
Should we consider promoting someone from within the company?
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