When you apply for a job, most employers want to have 2 important documents from you: a CV and a covering letter. Your CV and covering letter are usually the first impression that an employer’s has of you. Your CV is your visiting card. It represents you and it has a a specific purpose to get you an interview. Before even looking at your CV, reads your covering letter. If it is well-written, attractive, easy to read, the employer will turn to your CV. You should design your letter to be easy to read. It should be short and relevant. It should not be too formal. Your CV is a summary of your academic life until now, and it usually concentrates on your personal details, education and work experience. Ideally CV should not longer than one page. An excellent CV may help you get the job of your dream.

Belarusians like and keep up national traditions and holidays. People celebrate many holidays which mostly date back to ancient time and have a long history. People used to celebrate the Midsummer day holiday. On the night of July, 7 in accordance with the Orthodox calendar and is called «Kupalle». We must admit that it is one of the most mysterious holidays in Belarus. There are a lot of legends and customs connected with this magic holiday. People try to help the forces of light and themselves to defeat the evil witches and wizards. They light bonfires, dance and sing songs around them. The holiday has been widely featured in the Belarusian literature and works of art. It’s great that young people are eager to revive the national customs and traditions. If you want to experience real joy you should come to Belarus when «Kalyady» is being celebrate. People say that «Kalyady» is God's holiday. is a jolly time when people are enjoying themselves. During «Kalyady» groups of merry young boys and girls in smart clothes go from house to house in Belarusian villages and towns. Each person in the procession of kalydouschiki has a role of them bears the star, other sing carols. Hosts and hostesses usually treat diem to delicious things and thank them for well-wishing and carol-singing. On «Kalyady» Belarusians like to visit each other, celebrate weddings and arrange fairs. The pagan holiday of "Kalyady" coincided later with Christmas. The main purpose of "Kalyady" is to get rid of everything bad in one's life and to begin a new cycle with joy and optimism.

There are many national holidays in GB. British People like and keep up national holidays, many of them are dated to ancient times. Holidays are: Boxing day, New Year’s day, St. Valentine day, Good frifay, Easter Monday and Christmas Day. I would like to talk about Christmas. It’s one of the most popular holiday in GB. Every year people of Norway give the city os London a present. It’s a big Christmas tree. It’s placed at Trafalgar squire. The main street s of London are beautifully decorated. Before Christmas some groups of singers go from house to house. They collect money for charity and sing Christmas songs. Traditionally on the 24^th of December people decorate their trees, children hung stokings at the end of their beds hoping that they will be given a toy or sweet. Christmas if also a family holiday. Relatives often go to vesit each jther for the dinner. This time is good for meeting with relatives and friends to watch a films or football match.

Within the broad system of higher education the universities also have special teaching functions. Their basic purpose is to give a first-class education in theories and principles to enable their students to reach a high standard of crea-tiveness, criticism and flexibility. Certainly, they do have to teach how to acquire, increase and employ knowledge. The essential emphasis in university education is on the cultivation of the minds of those with whom lies the heaviest responsibility for creating die future. Universities do train for the professions and teach special skills. They turn ' out doctors, engineers and lawyers, chemists, physicists and economists. But the majority of their graduates are not trained for specific jobs. Even in cases such as those cited, the education is not narrowly vocational. Degree students are educated in principles as well as practice so that, as knowledge grows and techniques change, they can adapt themselves and keep up-to-date and efficient. It might possibly be argued, then, that it does not matter what universities teach - physics or geography, sociology or English - so long as they provide intellectual training.

There is no one typical career path for mechanical engineers. Most engineering graduates start with jobs of low responsibility and they are given more and more responsible tasks. Engineers are at a high demand at banks, management consultancies because of their analytical skills responsible for. Being employed as an engineer, you are responsible for the creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, manufacturing process, or works using them singly or in combination. Having learnt how to apply theories and principals of science and mathematies. I wiil be able to solve practical technical problems. Having been educated in this sphere, you may be imployed in business and industry. I like to work as part of a team and think that I’m creative, analytical and detail-oriented. I actively take part in students conferences and carry out engineering projects. Knowing extra information in the field of engineering. I can apply my knowledge.

Belarus is my home country. I will try to tell you how I, the Belarusian, feel about it. Belarus is situated in the centre of Europe. The population of Belarus is about 10 million. Towns are the most tensely inhabited. The most important centers are Minsk, the capital, Grodno, Gomel, Brest, Mogilev and Vitebsk. The mineral resources of the country are: peat, oil, underground fresh and mineral waters, building materials. Agriculture, manufacturing, industry and commerce are the most developed branches of the economy. The most developed branched of manufacturing, instrument-making, radio-electronic, wood-working, oil-refining and food industries. Belarus has to import oil, gas, coal, metal, chemicals and cotton. Our country exports heavy lorries, tractors, motorcycles, biesycle. The active national economic policy alloved for stabilization and some growth in the economy in 1995. Currently, large-sized industrial interprises serve as a pillar of the Belarusian economy. The government provides a sizable support to them. Free economic zones are created in Belarus to attract domestic and foreign investments, increase export develop advanced technologies. Belarus has good trade relations with Russia, the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany and Poland. The country is connected with its neighbors by its wide network of rail-, high- and waterways. Belarus is presidential republic. The highest executive power is vested in a President. The Parliament is a representative and legislative body of the consist of to chambers. The executive power is performed by a Council of appointed by the President. It contributes to the world peace, friendship and cooperation among nations. That is how I see my Motherland country that is situated in the heart of Europe where all roads meet.

The rules for succeeding in business are changing daily. Yet people are still asking for the magic formula that contributes to a successful organization. Self-development is the key. Actually, there are two types of development: hard skill and soft skill. The hard skills contain anything that might includes such areas as science, financial reporting, procedures in a company, ect. It is essential that people have the hard skills to do their job. But what keeps people from getting where thev want to go at work? Its rarely the lack in theoretical knowledge, but rather bad self-management abilities. More and more corporations around the world recognize that they also need to make sure their people know how to handle themselves at work and how to relate with their customers and managers. Most schools don’t teach you how to cultivate your soft skills. In a number of profession soft skills are more important than hard skills. The legal professions is one example where the ability to deal with people can determine more than his order technical skills.

All trends that define the job search change overtime. To give yourself the best possible chance, you need to use the most up-to-date approaches. In a competitive job market, a standard CV won’t grab a hiring manager’s attention. That means you have to detailing how you skills are more important, employers want to get a sense at your personality. So use your CV and covering letter show the hiring who you are. Hiring managers don’t have much time to devote to your CV, so you need to make a positive impression right away. Focus on the skills that match the employer’s requirements and contributions you’ve made in previous. Don’t be afraid to ask if you can prove yourself on a temporary basis. You’ll demonstrate you enthusiasm and desire to hit the ground running. The fundamentals of the job search – haven’t changed. Make sure you understand the current trends to the job hunt.

It's common knowledge that at age of 18 young people take on most of the rights and responsibilities of adulthood. But until adolescent years come, the teenage lives through a very important character-building period of adolescence. They want to be more independent, they try to keep to their ow values. Teenagers are definitely influenced by the values and moral requirements witch they learn at home, at school as well as from their social surroundings, including mass media. If teenage can't cope on their own with the difficulties, some of the week-willed take to drinking or committing crimes. Talented children are encouraged to realize their creative and intellectual potential. The most popular with young people in Belarusian Republican youth union (BRSM).

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University students study all day long and rarely have spare time to rest and to do something they like, put there are a lot of possibilities to do it perfect. Useful activity is much better then doing nothing. The most active way is go in for sport. You can do sports all the year round. Our friends also help us to spend spare time. Music occupies the most part of peoples mind. Young people communicate according to their music taste. Reading books, papers and magazines is also a way of spending leisure time. From magazines and paper you know the latest new in the world of politics, fashion, cooking, technology. With developing of Internet information is available in each part of the world, it's a way of communicating with people. People all over the world sit at the computers chatting or exploring the Internet all day long. Students spend a lot of free time playing computer games, but some people prefer to go to a country to breathe fresh air or travel somewhere with friends. For example every holiday I go somewhere with my best friend from Gomel. We always have a good time.

I'm student of the Belarusian State University of Transport. After finish school I entered the University and became a first-year student. I took examinations in several subjects. I passed them successfully. I wanted to become a railway engineer so I entered the Belarusian State University of Transport. There are many faculties at our University, but I choose Mechanical Faculty and I am a student of the Mechanical Faculty.

The ideal modern car would seem the electric car. There have in fact been a lot of electric cars, but none has yet solved the basic problems. Scientists are working on a new “high energy” battery. Another important development is the “hybrid car”. Perhaps the electric car is not a dream after all. Maybe one day we will spend more time charging batteries than filling up with petrol.

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