4. Fill in the gaps using the word-combinations from the text.

(career path, current job, career planning, long-term, mapping, picturing, accomplishments, wrapped, short-term, outcome, job seekers)

1. To start your (….) always takes time.

2. When you take on career planning you do the (….) of your job and career path.

3. You may try to examine your (…) to find what you like or dislike in it.

4. When people keep a very good record of work (….) they don`t struggle with creating a powerful resume when it's time to search for a new job.

5. If our workers didn`t get so (…..) up in their jobs our company wouldn`t give them an extra holiday.

6. A (….) that is expanding today could easily break tomorrow.

7. A major component of career planning is setting (….) (in the coming year) and (…) (beyond a year) career and job goals.

8. (…) yourself in the future may be fun and also useful.

9. There are a lot of people who recently became (….) in Spain and Greece.

10. The (….) of this research is not published yet.

5. Choose the best alternative to complete the sentences.

1. Career planning is not an activity that (may/should/can) be done at once.

2. Something we (have loved, loved/were loving) two years ago may now give us displeasure.

3. If you (won`t look, don`t look, look) to make a difference in the world, I (join, don`t join, will join) you.

4. The great painter Paul Gauguin (has been/was/will be) a successful business person who (paint/painted/was painting) on the side.

5. You (will have to/have to/may) possess the information about career trends in case you want to have a long-term career planning success in the future.

6. If you (spend/will spend/are spending) some time mapping your job and career path , you (are/will be/won`t be) prepared to the new job.

7. A job-seeker (may/can/might not) make a record of his work accomplishments.

8. If you (has worked/will work/worked) really hard on your position, you (would be/ will be/ could be) promoted already.

9. Jack just (showed/ has shown/was showing) an outcome of his work to our team.

10. I (am contemplating/have been contemplating/contemplate) about this for the whole week.