company or companies you wish to work for like your life depended on it.

• If it's a retail company, visit a few of their stores, observe the customers, and even strike up a few conversations. Talk to existing employees - ask them what it's like working there, how long the position has been open, and what you can do to increase your chances of getting it. Become familiar with the history of the company. Who started it? Where? Who runs it now?

Be creative! [9]

2.Translate the marked paragrath.

3.Make up your resume.

LETTER OF EMPLOYMENT

1. Read. Write down and make sentences with the marked words.

When you apply for a job, you may needto fill in a company application form which asks for personal details, your qualifications, and your work history. Alternatively, you may be asked to supply a curriculum vitae, which gives similar information, but which you write yourself.

In either case, you will need to write a covering letter to go with the application form or CV. Most jobs will have been advertised in the papers or specialist publications, and before you write your covering letter you should study the wording of the advertisement carefully.

Find out exactly what the employer is looking for (for example, a certain amount of experience, familiarity with particular languages, etc.). Then, in your covering letter, try to show that you have all the qualities, qualifications, and experience that the employer is looking for. You should not simply repeat all the information in the CV, you should highlight the most important parts.

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Systems Programmers to Ј20,000 - London

Our client is a major UK clearing bank whose range of activities is as impressive as the growth of its profits. A bank that is dedicated to a long-term programmer of systems development.

With IBM RS/6000, System 38, and VAX hardware driving user-interface PC networks using C, UNIX, FOXPRO, and SYBASE, there's no doubting our client's commitment to systems innovation and investment.

We are looking for SYSTEMS PROGRAMMERS with С and UNIX skills, who can show us 2 years' experience of delivering advanced banking and on line information systems. Above all, we need flexible thinkers who appreciate the commercial realities and priorities of the banking industry.

Show us these qualities, and our client can offer you a competitive salary plus many banking benefits. If your talents and ambitions are ready for such a move, please send your CV, quoting Ref.349.to:

Harriet Bradman at Comp Recruitment Services, 318 Leadhill Street, London EC1 1DR.

2. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту:

1.Who placed the advertisement?

2.What software does the current system use?

3.What specific characteristics or qualities are required?

4.What benefits come with the job?

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3. Прочитайте письмо, обратите внимание на его структуру.

22 Carlyle Crescent

London WC1H9BH 18 June 19_

Yr Ref:349

Ms H Bradman

Compro Recruitment Services 318 Leadhill Street

London EC 1 1DR

Dear Miss Bradman,

I wish to apply for the post of Systems Programmer, which was advertised in this month's edition of IT World.

I am currently a Systems Programmer at GCG Merchant Bank where I have two years' experience of specialized programming for the financial sector. I am familiar with С / UNIX,

LAN / WAN technology, and relational databases.

Prior to taking over my current post, I worked for Data International as a Trainee Systems Programmer, where I was involved in the development of a new online information system for a financial services company.

My experience in the fields of both banking and online information services has given the necessary commercial and technical awareness to be able to make a valuable contribution to the systems development programmer of your client.

Please let me know if there is any further information you require.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yourssincerely,

DavidManning

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4.Напишите письмо, учитывая особенности

•Begin with a reference to where you saw the job advertised.

•List briefly all previous jobs.

•Indicate your current level of responsibility.

•Explain why the company would benefit if they employed you.

•Say when you will be available for interview.

•Request that they reply as soon as is reasonably possible.

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БИБЛИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ СПИСОК

1.http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/careersintechnology

2.http://service.ezinemark.com/how-cloud-computing-and- mobile-tech-is-changing-our-daily-lives-32273fa6057.html

3.http://etc.usf.edu/techease/win/hardware/what-is-usb/

4.http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/software.htm

5.http://www.techterms.com/definition/peripheral

6.http://searchcio-idmarket.techtarget.com/definition/CD-

ROM

7.http://java.about.com/od/gettingstarted/a/whatisjava.htm

8.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_processing_system

9.http://www.wikihow.com

10.Santiago RemachaEsteras. Infotech: English for

Computer Users. -Cambridge University Press, 2008.

11.Computer User High-Tech Dictionary[Electronic re- source].–http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/.

12.Michael R. MacmmillanStudydictionary.:Macmillan Publishers, 2010.

13.TechDictionary[Electronic resource].– http://www.techdictionary.com/.

14.Федеральный государственный образовательный стандарт среднего профессионального образования по специальности 09.02.01 Компьютерные системы и комплексы. Утвержден приказом Министерства образования и науки РФ от

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ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ

ВВЕДЕНИЕ………………………………………………………3

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – A DEFINITION….…...…...4 WHAT IS HARDWARE?................…………………………….11

SOFTWARE……………………………………………….…….21 PERIPHERAL (AUXILIARY) DEVIСES…………………...….24 BRIEF HISTORY OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES...….....32 DATA PROCESSING………………………………….………..39 INTRODUCTION TO THE WWW AND THE INTERNET……43 РHOW TO GET A JOB………………...………………………..47

БИБЛИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ СПИСОК……………………….....55

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