How do you look ... a job?

English as a Second Language Listening, speaking, pronunciation and accent
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Reporter: Today we re talking about employment center.
Looking for a job, one place to start is at the Canada Employment Center.
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Reporter: Dan, can you tell me what your job is?

Dan: I m an employer counselor.

Reporter: What is it that you do?

Dan: I try and help you find work.

Reporter: Now. How do you conduct job interview?

Dan: I ask people a little bit about themselves, their background, ah, if they have a resume.

Reporter: What is a resume?

Dan: A resume basically is personal information, training, education and what type of work experience they’ve had.

Reporter: How do you look at a job?

Dan: We have all of the information entered on the computer, is also printed on cards which are posted on boards that you can go and look at to select your own job.

1- Which is correct:

  • How do you look at a job? ← original text

  • How do you look up a job?

2- And what does it mean?

Thank you

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She does say “How do you look up a job?”

This would be something like “How do you find information about a job?” He talks about using the database on their computers as well as actual cards containing the information.

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Thank you so much, Arinker :rose:

How do you look up a job?

Who does “you” refer to?

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“You” is just someone in general.
“How does someone look up a job?”

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Thank you so much, Arinker :rose:

Very nice.

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Hi again

I have another question:

Dan: We have all of the information entered on the computer, …←

1- Is this Present Perfect Tense?

If we change the sentence like this:

We have entered all of the information on the computer,

2- Is this sentence still correct?

Thanks

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While both are correct, they say two different things.

I don’t know who entered the information.

“Information was entered on the computer. We have all of it.”
Or, it could be
“We see to it that all of the information is entered on the computer.”

Here, we did the work of entering the information.

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Thank you so much, Arinker :rose:
Very nice.

We have all of the information entered on the computer,…← original text

So, the original sentence is not in Present Perfect Tense.

Am I right?

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“Have” is not an auxiliary verb here.

It means either “possess” or “see to it that”. The sentence isn’t clear about which meaning.

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Thank you so much, Arinker :rose:
Very nice.

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