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Scene illustrating a Spain Spanish-language job interview conversation

Key Phrases

¿Por qué quiere trabajar con nosotros?

Why do you want to work with us?

Me encanta trabajar con clientes.

I love working with customers.

Muchas gracias por su tiempo.

Thank you very much for your time.

Skills You'll Learn

Expressing interest in a job position

Expresar interés en un puesto de trabajo

Talking about job expectations

Hablar de expectativas laborales

Thanking someone formally in an interview

Agradecer formalmente en una entrevista

Lesson Roleplay

Imagine you're at a job interview at a company in Madrid. You want to explain why you'd like to work there and what you hope to gain.

Buenos días. Siéntese, por favor.

Good morning. Please, have a seat.

Buenos días. Muchas gracias.

Good morning. Thank you very much.

Bueno, ¿por qué quiere trabajar con nosotros?

So, why do you want to work with us?

Me gusta mucho su empresa. Tiene muy buena fama.

I really like your company. It has a very good reputation.

¿Y por qué le interesa este puesto?

And why are you interested in this position?

Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases

🙏🪑

Siéntese, por favor.

SYEN-teh-seh por fah-BOR

Please sit down.

💬 Polite commands to usted stick se onto the end of the verb: siéntese. The same happens in preséntese "introduce yourself".

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❓

¿Por qué?

por keh

Why?

💬 As a question it's two words with an accent: ¿por qué?. As the answer "because", it's one word with no accent: porque.

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💼🤝

Trabajar con nosotros

trah-bah-HAR kohn noh-SOH-tros

To work with us

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💼🤝❓

¿Por qué quiere trabajar con nosotros?

por keh KYEH-reh trah-bah-HAR kohn noh-SOH-tros

Why do you want to work with us?

💬 quiere is the polite 'you' form, and it looks exactly like the 'he/she wants' form. Context tells you the interviewer means you.

🇪🇸 Many Spanish interviewers now use tú to seem friendly, but some keep the polite form. Answer in whichever form they use with you.

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❤️

Me gusta mucho

meh GOOS-tah MOO-choh

I really like

💬 gusta works like "pleases me", so it changes for plural things: me gustan los idiomas "I like languages". With an activity like trabajar, it stays gusta.

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🏢👉

Su empresa

soo em-PREH-sah

Your company

💬 su can mean 'your' (polite), 'his', 'her' or 'their'. In an interview, su empresa almost always means the interviewer's company.

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❤️🏢

Me gusta mucho su empresa.

meh GOOS-tah MOO-choh soo em-PREH-sah

I really like your company.

💬 With gusta, the thing you like does the 'pleasing', so the verb changes with that thing, not with you. If the thing is plural, the verb is too: me gustan sus productos "I like your products".

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⭐👍

Tiene muy buena fama.

tee-eh-neh mwee BWEH-nah FAH-mah

It has a very good reputation.

💬 fama usually means 'reputation' rather than celebrity, and it can be good or bad. tiene mala fama "it has a bad reputation".

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💺👉

Este puesto

ES-teh PWEHS-toh

This position

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