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Choosing an Occupation

Career Choices

Choosing a career is like any other activity; the best way is (1)_____ a plan. Too many people start looking for a specific (2)_____ before thinking out their occupational aims. It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what are the career requirements and then compare them with your personal skills and abilities. This involves (3)_____ a realistic view of your strengths and weaknesses. You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, (4)_____ the experience you have already had suggests that this is not your strong (5)_____.

Having thought (6)_____ about what sort of person you are, try to work out a realistic set of occupational requirements. In particular, you (7)_____ answer some important questions. Firstly, what sort of life do you want to lead? For example, do you want to live in the country or in the town? Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is the size of your salary important? Do you want to be involved in travel widely? Secondly, what sort of work do you want to do? For example, do you like working (8)_____ or with (9)_____? Does teaching people appeal to you? Do you want to be an (10)_____ of other people's activities? Do you want to develop new ideas and initiate changes?

1. A. work up B. to work up C. to work out D. working out

2. A. job B. work C. career D. position

3. A. making B. getting C. doing D. taking

4. A. although B. and C. moreover D. still

5. A. side B. point C. part D. trait

6. A. slightly B. attentively C. carefully D. generally

7. A. need B. have to C. ought to D. must

8. A. lonely B. oneself C. alone D. by yourself

9. A. others B. other C. another D. another people

10. A. organize B. organization C. organisator D. organizer

                   

 

 

2. Complete the text using the correct word from the box:

 
 
position vacancies work   job employment career   EMPLOYMENT


Looking for a Job

There are several traditional ways of looking for a (1)_____. One of the most active means of looking for a job is studying the market of the offered (2)________ to get an idea of necessary demands and size up your own chances. The best way of doing this is to use the help of (3)________ agencies or independently study the (4)________ advertisements being published.

When looking through advertisements, your main task is to understand whether the (5)________ being offered is in accordance with the level of your skills, education, and experience in (6)________. Then you should try to learn as much as possible about this (7)________ to prepare yourself as best as possible for a meeting with the employer.

Carefully read the demands made of the given ­­­(8)________. The demand to know a foreign language is very important. Nowadays in most cases there is need in good command of the language. Free command means the ability to deal with a foreign manager, to compile documents (letters, faxes, etc.) competently and speak on the phone.



Thus, you have decided to find a (9)________: buy an appropriate newspaper and carefully study the ads given by (10)________ agencies. When your choice is made, start the procedure of writing your resume.

3. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word or a proper tense of a verb that fits in the space in the same line:

Choosing an Occupation

 

One of the most difficult problems a young person faces is (1)_____ DECIDE
what (2)_____ about a career. There are individuals, of course, who from the time they are six years old “know” that DO
they want to become doctors or pilots or fire (3)_____, but FIGHT
The (4)_____ of us do not get around to making a decision about an occupation MAJOR
or career until (5)_____ forces us to face the problem. SOME
Choosing an occupation takes time, and there are a lot of things you have to think about as you try to decide what you would like to do. You may find out that you will need to get some actual work experience to gain enough (6)_____.   KNOW
(7)_____, there are a lot of people you can turn to for advice and help in making your decision. For example, FORTUNE
you can talk over your ideas with family members and friends who are always ready to listen and offer (8)_____. SUGGEST
But even if you take other people involved in helping you make a decision, self-(9)_____ is an important part of the decision-making process. EVALUATE

4.Translation Skills:

A. Translate the following text from English into Russian:

Work and Careers

 

Sometimes we say that someone we know is "a square peg in a round hole." This simply means that the person we are talking about is not suited for the job he is doing. He may be a book­keeper who really wants to be an actor, or a mechanic who likes cooking. Unfortunately, many people in the world are "square pegs"; they are not doing the kind of work they should be doing, for one reason or another. As a result they are probably not doing a very good job and certainly they are not happy.

Choosing the right career is very important. Most of us spend a great part of our lives at our jobs. For that reason we should try to find out what our talents are and how we can use them. We can do this through aptitude tests, interviews with specialists, and consulting reference books on the subjects that interest us.

There are many careers open to each of us. Perhaps we like science. Then we might prepare ourselves to be chemists, physi­cists, or biologists. Perhaps our interests take us into the business world and into such work as accounting, personnel management or public relations. Many people find their place in government service. Many other fields — teaching, newspaper work, medi­cine, engineering — offer fascinating areas to those with talent and training.

 

B. Give a free translation of the following text:


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