- •Устройство на работу
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Name:
- •4. What are these people?
- •5. Name as many professions as you can.
- •6. Name some professions you consider to be interesting. Which qualities make a good manager, etc.?
- •7. The Chamber of Commerce is an organisation for business people. Listen to six new members. Number the business cards in the order people speak.
- •8. Helen Marsden and Robin Seaton talk about their jobs. Before you listen, decide what their duties are. Then listen and check your answers.
- •9. Listen again and complete the notes below.
- •Grammar Review
- •10. Look at the business cards again. Who is each question for?
- •Meet Thomas Kingsley
- •Grammar Review
- •21. A) Read the text. Whose opinion do you share?
- •Is it possible to be successful in an unsuccessful company?
- •22. Read the text. Which way of looking for a job do you usually use? Why? So you are looking for a new position...
- •23. Work in pairs. How many different ways can a company recruit applicants to fill a job vacancy?
- •24. Read the magazine article about recruiting staff. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each recruitment method? The right person for the right job
- •25. Read the article again and answer the questions.
- •Grammar Review
- •26. Look at the graphs a-h below. They show how a company has recruited its staff over a three-year period.
- •27. How would you recruit people for his/her own job?
- •28. Read the text and complete the table.
- •29. Read the advertisement below. What would be its attractions – what might be its drawbacks?
- •30. Read the two advertisements below and answer the questions.
- •31. Look at the job advertisement below. Listen to a conversation in which Fiona Scott is telling a friend about the advertisement and complete the missing information.
- •32. How would you advertise the following vacancies?
- •33. Do the questionnaire as a discussion activity.
- •34. Read the text to check your answers in the exercise above.
- •35. Study the following resumes carefully to see how information is presented.
- •36. Define the type of the following resumes.
- •37. Use the information below to arrange Paul Goodman’s resume.
- •38. Where do you think each of the following headings should be placed?
- •39. Draft your resume.
- •41. Fill out the application form.
- •42. Sum up what the text says about differences between a resume and a cover letter. How Letters of Application Differ From Resumes
- •44. Read the text and the letters of application. Match the paragraphs of the letters with the information of the text. Format of a letter of application
- •45. Below you will find details from a letter of application. Look at the outline of the letter on the left and indicate where the information below should go.
- •46. Read the letter and answer the questions.
- •47. Almudena Ribera is a secretary in Madrid. She is looking for work in Britain. Read the advertisement and answer the questions.
- •48. Match the phrases below with Almudena's notes.
- •49. You see the following advertisement in a national newspaper. Write a plan of your application letter in reply to it.
- •50. Imagine you want to apply for the job … Draft an application letter, following these guidelines:
- •Dressing for success
- •Interviewing someone for a job
- •54. For each direct question below, tick the correct indirect question.
- •55. You are interviewing someone for a job. How would you find out politely the following information?
- •56. A) Read the text below. What questions was Boris asked?
- •The Job Interview
- •57. You are interviewing someone for a job. How would you find out the following information?
- •58. Look at this resume. If you were interviewing Kevin Willis for the job, what questions would you ask him about his career history?
- •60. As a candidate, would you prefer to be interviewed by a woman, a man or a board?
- •Making a Selection
- •62. Discuss these points.
- •63. Read the following dialogues. Then name the stages of an interview.
- •Job Hunting
- •An Interview
- •An Interview for a job
- •64. Look at the following chart. Then read the questions below. In which section of the interview would each question appear?
- •65. A) Read the text below which advises candidates how to answer difficult interview questions.
- •Attending interviews
- •1. What don’t you like about your current position?
- •2. Where does your employer think you are today?
- •4. What are your weaknesses?
- •72. You are a Human Resources Manager. Write a report on the applicant (see exercise 66).
- •73. Translate the text below.
- •74. Here is an answer to a job application letter.
- •75. Read this page of Fibretech’s conditions of employment. Then complete the sentences choosing the correct option.
- •Exam section
- •1. What are the most important things for you in your work? Arrange these aspects in order of importance and add some more things you think are important:
- •2. Complete the diagram with vocabulary from the unit.
- •3. Match the following words with the correct meaning.
- •4. Match the verbs with the nouns.
- •6. Choose the best word to complete the sentences.
- •Complete the table below.
- •8. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words from the table above.
- •9. Complete the following passage.
- •10. Complete the sentences with the prepositions below. You can use the prepositions more than once.
- •14. Read the following interview with Margi Bogart, Product Marketing Manager at Mindsteps. Put the verbs in brackets into the present simple or present progressive tense. MindstepsTm
- •15. Complete the sentences below. Use your own words.
- •Appendix 1 Trades and Jobs
- •Building Строительство
- •Professions Профессии
- •Samples of Recommendation Letters
32. How would you advertise the following vacancies?
finance director graphic designer marketing manager bilingual secretary truck driver computer programmer
Unit 4. résumé or curriculum vitae
When a person is eager (сильно желает) to get a job he is often to fill in (заполнить) a résumé ['rezju(:)meι] (USA) or a curriculum vitae [kə'rikjuləm 'vι:taι] (UK) or a standard printed application form (анкета претендента). The forms can be laid in different ways but the information required will, in most cases, be the same.
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34. Read the text to check your answers in the exercise above.
Résumés are the core of the job search. Interviewers use the résumé to decide whether to interview you or forget you forever (or at least until you apply for another job with the company). Résumés are expected for almost all types of jobs from clerk to chief executive officer, and are a quick way to make an impression, either good or bad. Your first impression is made by your résumé - it is the résumé that makes an employer decide whether you should be called in for a job interview. It is the contents of the résumé that makes an employer decide not to choose you. If an employer has 500 résumés to read, you must be careful to not give him/her an excuse to throw your résumé in the garbage. Employers often do not have a lot of time to devote to each résumé. That's why it's important to make your résumé "knock the socks" off an employer reading it for the first time.
Your résumé should represent your strengths. Your résumé is your life on paper. Think in terms of the accomplishments of which you are the most proud.
A résumé is a one or two page summary of your education, skills, accomplishments, and experience. The purpose of your résumé is to get your foot in the door. A résumé does its job successfully if it does not exclude you from consideration. A résumé, as a personal, individual summary of your background, experience, training and skills, is an opportunity to present your best qualities to an employer the way you want to be seen. A résumé might be a prospect for you to generate interviews outside your geographic area. It is a way for employers to compare your specific qualifications to those of other candidates.
To prepare a successful résumé, you need to know how to review, summarize, and present your experiences and achievements on one page. Unless you have considerable experience, you don't need two pages. Outline your achievements briefly and concisely.
Your résumé is your ticket to an interview where you can sell yourself! Résumés allow you to have all the facts at your fingertips. This will eliminate fumbling for dates and significant facts.