- •Introduction
- •1. How do you choose a career?
- •1.1. “Working” vocabulary
- •1.2. Choosing a career
- •Choosing a career
- •1.3. Career and personality
- •What is Your Career Personality?
- •Does My Personality Match this Career?
- •1.4. The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •The 10 top steps for choosing a career
- •1. Begin with your values.
- •2. Identify your skills and talents.
- •3. Identify your preferences.
- •4. Experiment.
- •5. Become broadly literate.
- •6. In your first job, opt for experience first, money second.
- •7. Aim for a job in which you can become 110% committed.
- •8. Build your lifestyle around your income, not your expectations.
- •9. Invest five percent of your time, energy, and money into furthering your career.
- •10. Be willing to change and adapt.
- •1.5. Revision
- •2. Looking for a job
- •2.1. Work
- •2.3. Job search methods
- •Job search methods
- •2.4. Experience first, money second
- •My life as an intern
- •2.5. Revision
- •3. Applying for a job
- •3.1. Looking for and applying for a job
- •3.2. Want ads
- •3.3. How does a selection process go?
- •The Selection Process
- •Interview...
- •3.4. Getting ready for a job interview
- •Curriculum vitae
- •Interests
- •Personal statement
- •Covering letter
- •Mega Video Store requires trainee manager
- •16, London road,
- •23, High Road,
- •Planning
- •Writing
- •Checking
- •3.5. A job interview
- •3.6. Getting and keeping a job
- •3.7. Revision
- •4. At work
- •4.1. Career and promotion
- •One man's career
- •Being busy
- •Other idioms connected with work
- •During your working life
- •4.2. Colleagues and routines
- •Colleagues
- •Daily work routines
- •During the day (different work-patterns)
- •Types of work
- •4.3. Revision
- •5. The everchanging workplace
- •5.1. Revolution in the workplace
- •Recent changes in the world of work
- •Help wanted
- •5.2. The changing workplace
- •What makes a good workplace?
- •The Changing Workplace
- •5.3. Revision
- •6. Gender issues in the workplace
- •6.1. Men vs women
- •6.2. Gender stereotypes at work
- •6.3. Inequality at work
- •Inequality at work
- •6 .4. Gender discrimination in the workplace and at home
- •6.5. Balancing home and work
- •Balancing home and work
- •Value of housework
- •A Cinderella story
- •6.6. Revision
- •7. Check yourself
- •2. Write some collocations or brainstorm some related topics 1. Write a definition
- •Vocabulary Word
- •3. Use the word in a sentence or question 4. Recall a sentence with the word from the text.
- •Useful phrases
- •Writing a Summary Conflicting interests
- •Understanding the task
- •Deciding what is important
- •Answering questions to write a summary
- •Summarising a paragraph
- •Cutting out unnecessary information
- •6. Understanding the task
- •7. Planning
- •8. Writing
- •9. Checking
- •Presentation Signpost Expressions
- •Introducing the topic
- •Presentations. Structure and Useful Phrases
- •Introduction
- •Interpreting information
- •Discourse markers in speech and in writing
1.4. The 10 top steps for choosing a career
Task 1. Without looking at the text, write down what top 10 steps, in your opinion, a person should take when choosing a career. You can work individually or consult your groupmates.
When you are done, look at the headings in the text and compare your steps for choosing a career with the ones presented by the author. Is it worth interchanging any ideas presented in the text with your own ones?
Task 2. Read the text and translate it in the written form.
The 10 top steps for choosing a career
Career choices may well be more difficult today than at any time in history, for three reasons: there is infinitely more to choose from; career definitions are more fluid and changing; and the levels of expectation are rising. Most men and women entering the workforce today can expect to change careers three or more times during their working lives. Here are ten steps that will help ensure that your choices are good ones.
1. Begin with your values.
What's really important to you? What turns you on? What do you like to do so much that you would almost feel guilty getting paid to do it? These questions are designed to help you get at one of the key elements in career choice: values. Your values are the emotional anchor of all that you do. Satisfying careers are built upon the notion of a high correspondence between one's personal values and the work they will be doing. Begin your career search by sorting out your values and writing them down as clearly and succinctly as you can.
2. Identify your skills and talents.
A skill is something you've learned to do. A talent is something you've been born with, or at least that you seem naturally qualified to do. It's important to recognize the difference between the two. You may be skilled at something and still not find it interesting. Chances are, however, if you are naturally talented at something, there will be a correspondence between that particular talent and your values. Put another way: you are more apt to enjoy doing what you do well naturally than what you have simply been taught to do.
3. Identify your preferences.
From early on, we approach the world with certain personal preferences – how we perceive others, how we think and make decisions, whether we prefer concepts over people or vice versa, and the extent to which we are comfortable with uncertainty in our lives. For many, these preferences operate at a subconscious level, but they strongly influence the way we function with others. Some questions may help: Do you regard yourself as highly intuitive? Are you outgoing or reserved? When faced with a decision, do you rely primarily on facts or feelings? Your answers to these questions can tell you much about the kinds of work you will find interesting and challenging. One way of sorting this all out is by taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator a self-assessing instrument that helps clarify these issues. If you haven't taken it in the past year, or at all, I strongly recommend that you take it and include your results in your career deliberations.