JOBS
Starting a career
• What ways do you know of finding a job?
- Newspaper ads? Internet/websites? personal contacts?
- An ad = an advert = an advertisement
- What kind of work experience can you get before you
start your career?
• An apprenticeship
• Work placement/ a stage
• Graduate trainee scheme
Early work experience
• An apprenticeship = you learn a skill and have
a contract for a fixed period.
• Work placement: a temporary job with little or
no pay to get experience.
• A graduate trainee scheme: newly qualified
people/students work for a year in a company.
(similar to a stage)
Job seeking and jobs
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To seek/ Job hunting /Look for a job
Work experience/a temporary job/permanent job
To be unemployed – unemployment
To be redundant/to be made redundant
An employer/ an employee
A graduate/ an undergraduate / a degree /to graduate
An apprenticeship/ work placement=stage /Graduate trainee
scheme
To be newly qualified – qualifications/skills/
To have skills/ to have experience in (marketing)
To have backgroud experience
To hire/take on/ recruit
A salary/ pay/ a bonus/ a wage/
Applying for a job
• To apply for a job/ for a post/ a position
• An application form (to fill in)
• An applicant (to be one of 100 applicants for
only 10 places/vacancies)
• A job advert (on a website/in the newspaper)
• A candidate/an applicant
Recruitment
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HR = Human Resources (recruitment training of staff)
Send in a CV (Curriculum Vitae) or a resumé
Write a letter of intent/a cover letter
Interviews and tests
Interviewer/ interviewee
A recruiter can reject or accept candidates
Candidates are screened for experience
(=examined/tested)
Resumés are scanned
To be shortlisted
to be selected
To reject/accept the offer
Talking about your jobmatch the adjectives to their meanings
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Fun
Challenging
Stressful
Worthwhile
Varied
Routine
Depressing
Rewarding
Dull
Glamorous
Demanding
Needing a lot of effort, skill, hard
work
2. Boring:not interesting or exciting.
3. Amusing or enjoyable
4. Predictable, the same everyday
5. A good thing to do
6. Different, not always the same
7. Makes us feel good
8. Difficult in a way that is interesting
or satisfying.
9. Makes us feel unhappy.
10. Makes us feel worried or anxious
11. Looks attractive and exciting from
the outside and different.
KEY - Talking about your jobmatch the adjectives to their meanings
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Fun
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Stressful
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Amusing or enjoyable
Needing a lot of effort, skill, hard
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3. Makes us feel worried or anxious
4. A good thing to do
5. Different, not always the same
6. Predictable, the same everyday
7. Makes us feel unhappy.
8. Makes us feel good - satisfying
9. Boring: not interesting or exciting
10. Looks attractive and exciting from
the outside and different
11. Difficult in a way that is interesting
Job applications vocab
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A deadline
An application letter
To be shortlisted
To be turned down
To attend an interview
To be appointed for a
job
• To apply for another job
• To schedule interviews
• Check references in the
CV
• To scan CVs/resumés
Complete sentences with the following
prepositions:
to, for, from, on or in
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I am thinking of applying……the position of team leader
We are looking for people with a degree …….Political Science
Peter is responsible ….over 100 members of staff.
The latest recruit graduated ……. University last year.
Sergio has been assigned……this branch since Paula left.
Who will be accountable …. the quality of all our work
Our company took …… 5 new members of staff.
Complete sentences with the following
prepositions:
to, for, from, on or in
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I am thinking of applying for the position of team leader
We are looking for people with a degree in Political Science
Peter is responsible for over 100 members of staff.
The latest recruit graduated from university last year.
Sergio has been assigned to this branch since Paula left.
Who will be accountable for the quality of all our work
Our company took on 5 new members of staff.
Talking about your qualities
Are these all qualities? YES or NO?
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I’m good at persuading other people
In a group situation you take control
I’m a confident speaker
I always meet deadlines
I’m good at finding solutions to problems
I’m attentive to small details
For me there are no barriers to quality
To be motivated/enthusiastic/loyal
To be productive
Talking about your skills
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I have excellent keyboard skills
I have very good language skills
I have good speaking and writing skills in English.
I have good communication skills
I have relevant work experience
I have good academic qualifications
I have a fare amount of computer skills
I have aquired a certain amount of skills in the
advertising field
Interviews
Preparing for a job interview:
• Make sure that you find out as much as possible about
the company, about it’s history, about what it does,
how many people it employs and so on.
• During the interview keep to the point.
• Give complete answers, but do not talk for longer than
necessary.
• Remember that you ask the interviewer a question
which will show that you are interested in the
job/position.
To hire or to sack!
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Hand in your notice
Hire
Sack
• A) Resign
• B) Make redundant
• C) Dismiss
• D) Recruit
To hire, to sack or resign?
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Take on: D
Quit: A
Lay off: B
fire: C
Hand in your notice: A
Hire: D
Sack: B
• A) Resign
• B) Make redundant
• C) Dismiss
• D) Recruit
Letter of application: NOT appropriate
Hello,
I saw your ad in our local paper last week, so I want to
apply for the job of Communications Assistant. I know I
am the person you’re looking for. I just got a degree in
Economics at University and I am a very sociable
person.
So write soon and tell me if you want to know more
sbout me.
Regards,
Letter of application appropriate
Dear Sir or Madam,
With reference to your advertisement posted in the paper on the 10 July I would like
to apply for the position of Communications Assistant. I feel I am well qualified for the
position, have a degree in Communication studies and have already acquired
experience in that filed when doing a stage at the Town Hall in my home town.
Additionally I also have very good language skills in both speaking and written. I would
be very happy to give you more details regarding my experience and can be contacted
at any time.
Please let me know if there are any other details you need.
I enclose a copy of my CV.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
Clara Adams,
Clara Adams
Useful pharses
• Dear Mr Jacksn,
• I am writing to apply for the job of Press Officer advertised on
October the 20
• In the march edition of the magazine “jobs for graduates”
• I have a degree in Economics
• For the last two years I have worked as an Assistant Accountant for
Nikoni clothing.
• Last year I took special responsibility for…
• I am very interested in this job because I feel ready for a challenge
and confident in my ability to take on more responsibility.
• Please find enclosed
• Yours sincerely
Work absenteeism
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Take a day off sick/stay away from the office
Days absent from work
Absentees
To be genuinely ill
To take time off work
To have high rates of absenteeism
Sick leave
How to improve absenteeism? Work
motivation?
• Rewarding employees who have good attendance.
• Better staff management enabling better respect between
employees
• Promoting staff
• Offering prizes or vouchers
• Improve job satisfaction
• Provide personnel support
What do you think about these
suggestions for reducing absenteeism?
• Stop paying employees for the first few days that they take off
sick. (one day sicknesses cost the company)
• Give an extra day’s holiday to all employees who take no days
off sick.
• Reduce sick pay to 50% of employee’s normal pay.
• Employ an onsite doctor who the staff have to report to
when ill.
• Offer a prize/reward (vouchers, gimmicks) to those with best
attendance rate.
Rewarding good staff performance- job motivation
What is the most crucial for a happy work
environment?
• To be rewarded by a pay rise? Or better conditions?
• More job recognition? To have efforts recognized and
somehow rewarded.
• Dealing with non- performing colleagues: the sack?
• Giving employees more responsibility?
• Better conditions: parking space, better offices, better
sense of belonging,
• Professional development? (staff training)
• Treat employees like company’s greatest assets.