A) Answer the following questions.

1) Do all graduates in Britain enjoy high rates of employment?

2) Who has a better chance of finding a job – graduates who have done vocational or academic courses?

3) Is the competition on the graduate labour market high?

4) Do all graduates who find employment get a job worthy of a degree?

5) How can you account for the growth in graduate employment?

B) Sum up the text.

Ex.5. Translate into Russian the following word combinations.

Graduate unemployment, a language graduate, a vocational course, to apply for a vacancy, to make an application, a highly skilled worker, a stepping stone, to take on a graduate, an entrepreneurial company, to recruit, the jobs market.

Ex.6. Fill in the words.

Apply (v)— fill (v) — fire (v) — hire (v)

1. To get a job you have to _______ to the company where you want to work.

2. Likewise, students _______ to colleges where they want to study.

3. Companies sometimes _______ job openings from within, but most the time they bring in someone new.

4. When a company _______ you they tell you the hours you have to work and your benefits like health insurance and a pension.

5. When you are _____ your boss calls you in and tells you why.

6. At the interview they may _______ questions at you.

7. Some housewives _______ maids.

8. In America you can be _______ just because the boss doesn't like you.

9. If you talked back to the boss you'd be _______.

10. No matter what, you must _______ yourself in modern world, in other words you must work very hard.

Ex.7. Fill in the words.

Career (n) — career (a) — make / have a career

1. Going to college is a good start to _____.

2. Just holding a job is not a _____.

3. If you have a profession and climb the ladder you have a_____.

4. Most people start their _____ in some unimportant position and then climb the ladder until they are president of a company or noted in some field.

5. A woman who has a _____ is called a _____ woman.

6. A soldier who stays in the army is a _____ soldier.

7. Women sometimes take low-paid jobs if they feel that they have good _____ opportunities.

8. There is usually a special '_____' office in schools and universities to help young people choose their professions and find their first jobs.

Ex.8. Fill in the words.

Qualify (v) — qualification (n) — qualified(a)

Overqualified (a)-- underqualified (a) — unqualified (a)

1) If you don't have the right _____ there's no use applying for the job.

2) _____ people have a better chance to get a job than someone _____.

3) If you have a college degree you're _____ for a blue-collar job in a factory.

4) Someone with a B.A. is _____ to be a college professor.

5) In order to _____ for unemployment benefit, you've got to have had a full-time job.

6) In order to _____ to be a secretary you've got to be able to use computers and take dictation.

7) Apart from being _____, she has plenty of experience in doing this kind of work.

8) They promised me that they would give me the job unless my _____ were insufficient.

Ex.9. Fill in the words.

employer — employee; interviewer — interviewee;

Examiner — examinee; trainer — trainee

1. The person you work for is your _____.

2. The people working in a company are its _____.

3. The person who is being tested is an _____ and the person giving the test is an _____.

4. The journalist asking the questions is the ______, and the person answering them is the _____.

5. The people giving the instructions are the _____, and the

people following the instructions are the _____.

6. I was given a pay rise of £1,000 by my _____.

7. A football team normally has a _____ to keep the players fit.

8. A television _____ should always give the _____ a proper chance to express his or her opinions.

9. That company has 200 people working in its factory. My brother works there and I, too, am an_____.

10. At the moment he's a management _____. If he's successful, he'll be given his first responsible position in January.

Ex.10.Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.

At in for to as off of

1) I'm interested _____ this job.

2) What did you study _____ university?

3) He has applied_____ British Airways _____a job _____an office manager.

4) This job advertisement looks interesting. I'll send _____an application form.

5) Have you filled _____ the form yet?

6) You must send _____ the form by 20 May.

7) He's been _____ that job for two years.

8) She retired _____ the age of 60.

9) A commission means you get a percentage _____of what you sell.

10) The use _____ a company car is a nice perk to have.

11) The sixty applicants were reduced _____ a short-list of four.

Ex.11. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.

1) The selection of new staff is the responsibility of the ______ department.

A) human b) personnel c) personal

2) They are also responsible for the ______ and training of employees.

a) application b) redundancy c) promotion

3) Sales representatives are paid a monthly ______ but they also

receive travelling expenses and may earn a ______ on the sales they make.

a)salary b) wage c) commission

4) When the company went bankrupt all the workers in the plant were made ______.

a) fired b) redundant c) free

5) To enter a skilled ______ a new recruit may have to serve an apprenticeship.

a) profession b) occupation c) trade

6) The weak economy is clearly making itself felt on the German ______.

a) labour market b) labour exchange c) labour force

7) _____ people are found in transportation, food services, health care, hotel, technical, and other similar positions.

a) white collar b) blue collar c) pink collar

Ex.12. Match up the words in A) and B) to get the combinations explained below.

A) personnel, employment, hot, job, career, unemployment, drug, full-time, part-time, future

B) agency, benefit, opening, office, benefits, job, test, reference, opportunities, rate

§ part of a company that deals with employing people;

§ a place where people get information on available jobs;

§ a good vacancy;

§ money you get when you're out of work;

§ a vacancy;

§ a test to make sure the person does not take drugs;

§ the good things that come with the job, like medical insurance;

§ work which keeps you busy eight hours a day;

§ prospects;

§ work which keeps you busy less than eight hours a day;

§ something you use some time in the future;

§ the number of people out of work against the working population as a whole.

Ex.13. Here is a list of words and expressions connected with work. Divide them into the following categories:

Losing a job

Hours of work

Money

Departments in a company

Applying for a job

adjectives describing different jobs.

sales

a 9 to 5 job

personnel

accounts

references

a salary

advertising

out of work

challenging

planning

skilled

a wage

to get a bonus

manual

to do overtime

to give notice

a 7% pay rise

an hourly rate

mundane

to work in shifts

to earn $10,000 p.a.

to go for an interview

to sack an employee

to work flexitime

on the dole (colloquial)

rate of unemployment

to get a commission

to fill in an application form

to make someone redundant

to contact a company

Ex.14. Fill in the gaps with the words from 1) and 2) to learn about unemployment benefit.

Qualify, get by, report, fire, look for

Besides, that’s why, secondly, so

First of all, it's hardly any money at all, just enough to 1_____ on. 2 ______, not everybody1 _____. You are to have had a full-time job and not have been 1_____. 2 ______, if you only had a part-time job, you can't get any money. 2 ______, you'll only get an unemployment benefit for half a year and you must 1______ every week and tell them where you have been to 1 _____ a job and the results of your interviews. It's not just unpleasant, but a lot of work. Some people don't even bother collecting their checks. 2 ______ you have to save for a rainy day.

Ex.15. Fill in the words.

Commute, salary, prospects, promotion, retire, pension, ambitious, perks, increments, commission

CHOOSING THE RIGHT JOB

Job satisfaction is important but I have a wife and baby so I have to think about money too. If a job interests me, I need to know what ______ it offers and also whether there are regular annual increases, called _______. I want to know if I will receive a _______ when I _______ at the age of 60 or 65. If the job is selling a product, I ask if I'll receive a percentage of the value of what I sell, called ______. It is also important to know if there are extra advantages, like free meals or transport, or the free use of a car. These are called _______ or fringe benefits. Are the future _______ good? For example, is there a good chance of _______ to a better job, with more money and responsibility? Is the job near my home? If it isn't, I'll have to _______ every day and this can be expensive. I am very keen to be successful. I am very _______. I don't want to stay in the same job all my life.

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