D) Based on both parts of the text, speak about the wrong practices in writing a CV. Give your comments. Suggest the correct way.

NOTES

Curriculum vitae:a brief biographical resume of one's career and training, as prepared by a person applying for a job.

Job application, an application for employment or application form (often simply called an application):a form or collection of forms that an individual seeking employment, called an applicant, must fill out as part of the process of informing an employer of the applicant's availability and desire to be employed, and persuading the employer to offer the applicant employment.At a minimum, an application usually requires the applicant to provide information sufficient to demonstrate that he or she is legally permitted to be employed. The typical application also requires the applicant to provide information regarding relevant skills, education, and previous employment. The application itself is a minor test of the applicant's literacy, penmanship, and communication skills.

Recruiting:recruitment refers to the process of screening, and selecting qualified people for a job at an organization or firm, or for a vacancy in a volunteer-based manner. The stages in recruitment include sourcing candidates by advertising or other methods, and screening and selecting potential candidates using tests or interviews.

Personnel officer: a person appointed or elected to some position of responsibility or authority in some organization supervising matters of personnel.

Shortlist:a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winners

from a longer list of possibilities.

Strength: a strong or valuable attribute, quality, trait, characteristic.

Weakness: an inadequate or defective quality, as in a person ' s character; slight fault or

defect.

Covering letter/cover letter/ motivation letter/motivational letter or letter of motivation:a letter of introduction attached to, or accompanying another document such as a résumé or curriculum vitae.

1.2. a) What parts of speech are the words in brackets? Give their Ukrainian/Russian equivalents. Mind the stress in the words marked with (*).

VERBS

to select (selection) to convince (convincing) to sell (sale) to spend (expenditure) to provide (provision) to offer (offer) to invite (invitation) to explain (explanation, inexplicable) to expand (expansion, expansive) to market (market) to refer (reference) to increase (increase*, increasing) to dedicate (dedication, dedicated) to consider (consideration, considerable)

to secure (security) to apply (application, applicable) to prescribe (prescription) to match (match) to reject (rejection) to submit (submission) to cost (cost) to invest (investment) to create (creation, creative, creativity) to publish (publication, publisher, published) to reduce (reduction) to compete (competition) to highlight (highlight) to showcase (showcase)

NOUNS

application (applicant) vacancy (vacant) employer (employ, employee, employment) summary (to sum up) ability (able, unable, disabled) experience (experienced, to experience) skill (skilful) progression (progress, progressive)

promotion (promote) achievement (achieve) internship decision-maker background qualifications (quality, qualify)

ADJECTIVES

essential (essence*) specific (specify) potential (potential) brief (brevity) prospective (prospect*) appealing (appeal) attractive (attract, attraction)

capable (capability) competent (competence) relevant (relevance) powerful (power) persuasive (persuade) general (general) regular (regularity)

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