3.1 Answer the questions:

1. What is the best way of looking for a job?

2. What is the first step in dealing with possible employers?

3. What kind of information can one get from want ads?

4. What points does a job description contain?

3.2 Match the words with their definitions:

applicant things produced by a firm

qualified publicity designed to sell a product or service

benefit ask for something, officially and in writing

advertisement something given to an employee in addition to his salary or wages

wage ability that is necessary to do a job well

goods give work to someone

skill person trying to get a job

apply having the right education and experience for the job

employ payment for doing a job, usually paid weekly to manual workers

3.3 The following is a sample job descRlPtion, but it is arranged in the wrong way. Arrange the text properly.

1. THE COMPANY: a. High School diploma preferred. Experience in operation of conveyor belt machinery preferred.

2. JOB TITLE: b. Forty hours per week, all shifts available.

3. DUTIES: c. Eleven paid holidays; fifteen days paid vacation after one year. One paid sick

day per month. Medical and dental insurance available at reduced rates. Employer paid pension plan; profit sharing.

4. EDUCATION AND

SKILLS REQUIRED: d. $7.00 per hour to start with. Review in three months.

5. HOURS: e. Production Worker

6. OPPORTUNITY: f. Applicants should submit a handwritten application available from the Personnel Department. Pick up applications between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

7. WAGES: g. XYZ Corporation is a leading producer of consumer and industrial

cleaning products. XYZ has been supplying these products to the city market since l970. XYZ is expanding its production facilities to meet growing customer demand and to enable it to produce for a nationwide market. The philosophy of the company is to encourage employees to make suggestions for the improvement of products and production methods and to reward employees for their contributions. If you would like to be part of this progressive company, please read about the job opportunities listed here.

8. BENEFITS: h. Works on line at various tasks involved in production XYZ products.

Reports to line foreman.

9. METHOD OF i. Successful performance in this position may lead to promotion to Line APPLICATION Foreman.

4. Read the text.

A PLANNED CAREER

I have got a son who is 10 years old. As I want Ted to be a successful businessman I have carefully planned his career. He will certainly get a good education, and at the age of 21 he is to send his resume to the Sales Majestic Co., whose head-office is just opposite our apartment house. The company will accept him as a clerk. Ted will be responsible for dealing with correspondence and other papers; of course, this is not a very nice job for a smart young man, but one has to start somehow.

In less than two years he is to be promoted and get a higher payment. I do not know yet what position this will be, but Ted will do well and in a short time he will be appointed the head of the company delivery service. A great fleet of lorries delivers goods sold by the Sales Majestic all over the country and Ted will be in command of the fleet. I am really proud of my son whenever I think of all these lorries and drivers, whose supervisor he will be.

His activities and fresh ideas inevitably will make the company highly profitable. The management will see that Ted is very capable and hard-working, so he will be made the personnel manager; perhaps he will get even higher...

I can visualize this very clearly - when I close my eyes and do not see Ted drawing horrible monsters with repulsive horns and claws. He is drawing them day and night, dreaming of Boris Vallejo's fame. How stupid! I try to make him understand that he has before him a brilliant career, but Ted never listens to my words, absorbed in drawing.