The Candidates

Candidate A
Name: Steve Fielding
Age: 51
Nationality: British
Native language: English
Marital status: married, 2 children
Work experience: has worked in tourism industry for 20 years
Skills / interests: accountancy qualifications, good computer skills, speaks a little French but hasn't used it in a long time
Interview notes: friendly and enthusiastic, seems hard-working, wants this job because
he wants more contact with people, earns more in this current job than he could in this job.

Candidate B
Name: Sandrine Parnet
Age: 34
Nationality: French
Marital status: married
Work experience: now working as public relations officer for multinational company, worked as a tour guide with groups of children from US travelling in Europe 10 years ago
Skills: recently finished tourism course (Open University), speaks English fluently, good Spanish and Italian, good computer skills
Interview notes: wants to change jobs because she wants something more local that doesn't involve travelling, calm and confident (a bit cold?)

Candidate C
Name: Joe Schulz
Age: 25
Nationality: Swiss
Native language: German
Marital status: single
Work experience: works as tour operator representative in skiing resort in Switzerland in winter, in summer he supervises 10 teachers in a summer camp where students learn English and do sports
Skills: high level of spoken English but low level of written English, some French, some computer skills, studied history at university, very interested in history
Interview notes: very friendly and outgoing, perhaps a bit informal?, if offered job would move to Edinburgh, excellent references, available immediately

Who is the best? Explain your answer.