Tooling Up = Getting equipped up?

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going through his slides = ?

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Tooling Up: Views on an Interview, Part 1By David G. Jensen

October 21, 2011

The night before

Scott arrived at the airport and got himself over to the hotel, just a few minutes' drive from ABC Technologies where his interview would take place the next morning. At check-in, the desk clerk handed him a manila folder with his name on it. Someone from ABC, most likely Reggie Singh, his networking contact, had dropped it off for him. It contained a copy of the company’s annual report and some literature from the Chamber of Commerce about the area, including a realtor’s card and real estate flyers. He had sticker shock after a brief look.

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Instead of going through his slides one last time, he had been stuck in Human Resources filling out a generic application form used for all the company's new hires, from warehouse workers to scientists.

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http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_10_21/caredit.a1100116

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@oristarA,

Tooling up = getting ready for.

Sticker shock = the shock and surprise of seeing how high the prices (in this case of homes) is. This expression derives from the practice of automobile dealers of posting the price of a new or used car by attaching a 'sticker' , i.e. an adhesive piece of paper, to the windshield. 'Sticker shock' thus has come to mean the shock you experience when you see how high the price is.

Going through his slides probably refers to photographic slides he has brought with him to be part of a job interview demonstration he plans to present. That's just a guess, not knowing the rest of the context.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Lustig Andrei wrote:

Tooling up = getting ready for.

Sticker shock = the shock and surprise of seeing how high the prices (in this case of homes) is. This expression derives from the practice of automobile dealers of posting the price of a new or used car by attaching a 'sticker' , i.e. an adhesive piece of paper, to the windshield. 'Sticker shock' thus has come to mean the shock you experience when you see how high the price is.

Going through his slides probably refers to photographic slides he has brought with him to be part of a job interview demonstration he plans to present. That's just a guess, not knowing the rest of the context.

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@oristarA,

In the UK, 'tooling up,' refers to criminals/hooligans making sure they have weapons before they go out on the rampage. It doesn't tend to be used for any legitimate enterprise.

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@oristarA,

Since tooling up seems to have a different connotation in the UK and US, you'll need to be sure where the story was written before you complete your translation.

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