Text 1. How to find a job

Unit 2. Recruitment and selection

Task VIII. Individual task. Think over these questions.

Task VII. Match the sentence beginnings to the correct endings.

Mutual, Building Society, demutualization, members, demutualize, demutualized.

Task VI. Complete this newspaper article with the correct form of the words given below. One expression is used twice.

British companies donate around $500 million a year to charities She organized fund-raising Voluntary sector employees earn five to ten per cent Non-profit organizations are not to be confused Research shows that volunteers give the best service

with loss-making companies! in cash and, increasingly, as goods, services and time. parties for the charity. when they are helping people in their own social class. less than they would in the private sector.

1. Is self-employment common in your country?

2. Does the government encourage it?

3. Name some mutual companies. What sort of reputation do they have?

4. Are charities important? Which are the most active in your country?

There are several traditional ways of looking for a job. The first is waiting passively for a suitable variant, communicating with your friends, using all possible connections. A more active means of looking for a job is studying the market of the offered vacancies. The best way of doing this is to use the help of employment agencies or to study the ads of job opportunities independently.

Announcements of job opportunities can be read in different printed publications, heard on the radio and TV. The structure of job opportunities ads is usually the same: the name of the vacant position, the list of the candidate’s professional duties, the demands to the candidate, and the system of compensations and benefits. The ad usually suggests sending the applicant’s resume by post or fax. In this way the company carries out preliminary selection on the basis if resumes.

The applicant should try to get information on the activity of the company and the prospects of its development. The main task is to understand if the position offered corresponds to the level of your education, skills and experience in work. It is necessary to read carefully the duties and demands made of the given position. There can be demands like “willingness to travel” – as a rule, this means frequent business trips. Another important demand is the ability to work on a personal computer. There are also some special demands like knowledge of western book-keeping standards of knowledge of foreign language.

If the applicant’s resume was selected, he is invited for the interview. To have a perfect interview the applicant should dress formally, use the proper body language and think positively and confidently about him.

So, to get a job now it is not only important to be educated, have a number of skills, know how to sell oneself and know one’s price, but it is also important to have professional qualification, real business experience, interpersonal skills, the ability to work with documentation and equipment and the ability to build good relations both with superiors and subordinates.

Active vocabulary:

1. Means - средство 2. Independently - самостоятельно 3. Announcement - объявление 4. Duties - обязанности 5. Demand - требования 6. To carry out - осуществлять 7. Preliminary - предварительный 8. To correspond to - соответствовать 9. Skills - навыки 10. Experience - опыт

11. Carefully - тщательно 12. Willingness - желание 13. Frequent - частый 14. Body language - жестикуляция 15. Confident - уверенный 16. To deal with – иметь дело с 17. Equipment - оборудование 18. Superior - начальник 19. Subordinate - подчиненный

Task I. Give the Russian meanings of the following word- combinations:

Suitable variant, job opportunity, announcement, the same, professional duties, demands, benefits, to suggest, preliminary, development, to correspond to, level, experience, ability, foreign language, body language, superiors, subordinates.

Task II. Give the English equivalents:

1. Традиционные способы

2. Все возможные связи

3. Рынок предлагаемых вакансий

4. Изучать рекламные объявления об имеющихся вакансиях

5. Печатные издания

6. Перечень профессиональных обязанностей

7. Проводит предварительный отбор

8. Деятельность компании

9. Требования, предъявляемые к данной должности

10. Командировка

11. Идеальное собеседование

12. Знать свою собственную цену

13. Навыки межличностного общения

14. Строить хорошие отношения

Task III. Put the sentences into the right order:

a) The applicant is invited for the interview.

b) If you are looking for a job, you should read job announcements in mass media.

c) The applicant should try to get information about the company and the offered position.

d) If you need a job, you can wait passively for a suitable variant.

e) To succeed in finding the job you should have education, experience and inter-personal skills.

f) The applicant should send his/her resume on an employer’s address.

g) The applicant should study the market of the offered vacancies.

h) The most effective way of finding the job is to use the help of employment agencies.

i) It is necessary to read carefully the duties and demands made of the given position.

Task IV. Fill in the blanks with the proper words and word-combinations given below:

1. When you look for a job, you can use all possible ……

2. Employment agencies can help you to study the market of the offered ….

3. In different mass media you can find …….. job opportunities.

4. The job ad usually gives a list of duties and …. made of the candidate.

5. On the basis of resumes the company carries out ….selection.

6. Reading the job ad carefully you can understand if the position offered ….to you requirements.

7. It’s very important during the interview use the proper ….and be …...

8. Good inter-personal skills can help you build relations both with ….and …...

(body language, demands, subordinates, preliminary, corresponds, superiors, confident, vacancies, announcements, means)

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