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MODULE 2 I. CURRICULUM VITAE Task 1. Answer the questions before reading the text. What do you know about CVs? Have you ever written a CV? When do you need a resume? Choose the correct answer: when you leave school when you enter the university when you want to find a job What should a resume tell about?
Task 2. Read and memorize the following words and word combination:
1. opening вакансия 2. employer наниматель, работодатель 3. tool орудие, инструмент 4. employee работающий по найму 5. sale продажа 6. responsibilities обязанности 7. accomplishments достоинства 8. contribution вклад 9. neat ясный, точный, лаконичный 10. performance действие, деятельность 11. capabilities (неиспользованные ещё) возможности
Task 3. 1) Study the following information about ways of writing Curriculum Vitae: an outline of a person's educational and professional history, usually prepared for job applications.
Text: Resume or Curriculum Vitae (CV) A resume (US) or curriculum vitae (GB) is a summary of your previous experience, education and qualifications. In Europe, when people say ‘CV’, they are commonly referring to what is known in the U.S. as a ‘resume.’ But is there any difference between a curriculum vitae (CV) and a resume? The primary differences are the length, the content and the purpose. A resume is usually brief – no more than a page or two. A curriculum vitae may be longer (at least two pages) and more detailed including your academic background, research experience, publications, awards, honors, and other details. That is why a CV is used mainly when applying for academic, education or research positions and fellowships. However, very often, CV and resume are used interchangeably. When writing a resume, try to determine your main ‘selling points’ and include enough information for the employer to feel that you are worth interviewing. Some important tips for your resume:
Personal details: Normally these would be your name, address, date of birth (although with age discrimination laws now in force this isn't essential), telephone number and email. Job objective: State exactly what you want. It may be useful to give not the position you would like (e.g. a sales manager), but the area and the general level of responsibility (e.g. a management position in marketing) Profile: A personal profile at the beginning of your CV is your chance to attract the reader’s attention directly to your most important attributes for the job, for example, ‘an energetic and skilled communicator with a record of leadership and initiative’. Education and qualifications: For students whose job experience is little or nonexistent, this section usually comes first. Begin with your most recent or your most advanced degree or diploma, give the date and the name of the institution that granted it. It’s not necessary to include secondary school, unless you have a particular reason. Make sure to list any additional courses, including specific company training programs or language courses. Mention grades unless poor! Work experience: Use action words such as developed, planned and organized (e.g. organized employee training seminars, prepared budgets, supervised, administrated, analyzed, coordinated, etc.). Even work in a shop, bar or restaurant will involve working in a team, providing a quality service to customers, and dealing tactfully with complaints. Don't mention the routine, non-people tasks (cleaning the tables) unless you are applying for a casual summer job in a restaurant or similar. Try to relate the skills to the job. A finance job will involve numeracy, analytical and problem solving skills so focus on these whereas for a marketing role you would place a bit more emphasis on persuading and negotiating skills. Give dates of your employment (in reverse chronological order), name of the enterprise you worked for, position title, description of the duties you performed, including all volunteer and part-time jobs for students.. If you are still employed in this position, write: ‘2005 to present’. Interests and achievements: Most personal information is unnecessary. However, being single might be an advantage for a job requiring a lot of travelling. Keep this section short and to the point. As you grow older, your employment record will take precedence and interests will typically diminish greatly in length and importance. Bullets can be used to separate interests into different types: sporting, creative etc. Don't use the old boring clichés here: "socializing with friends". Don't put many passive, solitary hobbies (reading, watching TV, stamp collecting) or you may be perceived as lacking people skills. If you do put these, than say what you read or watch: "I particularly enjoy Dickens, for the vivid insights you get into life in Victorian times". Show a range of interests to avoid coming across as narrow: if everything centers around sport they may wonder if you could hold a conversation with a client who wasn't interested in sport. Hobbies that are a little out of the ordinary can help you to stand out from the crowd: skydiving or mountaineering can show a sense of wanting to stretch yourself and an ability to rely on yourself in demanding situations. Any interests relevant to the job are worth mentioning: current affairs if you wish to be a journalist; a fantasy share portfolio such as Bullbearings if you want to work in finance. Any evidence of leadership is important to mention: captain or coach of a sports team, course representative, chair of a student society, scout leader. Anything showing evidence of employability skills such as team working, organizing, planning, persuading, negotiating etc. Skills: Include categories if they demonstrate qualities relevant to the job.The usual ones to mention are languages (good conversational French, basic Spanish), computing (e.g. "good working knowledge of MS Access and Excel, plus basic web page design skills" and driving ("full current clean driving license"). Referees: Normally two referees are sufficient: one academic (perhaps your tutor or project supervisor) and one of an employer. You don’t need to include references until the employer is really interested. So just write: ‘Supplied upon request’.
Types of resume There are two basic types of resumes used to apply for job openings: a chronological resume and a functional resume. The chronological resume works well for job seekers with a strong, solid work history which shows career growth from one position to the next. It is the most traditional type of resume with the focus on time, job continuity, growth and advancement. Your work experience is given the priority, and jobs are listed in reverse chronological order with your current, or most recent job, first, along with a brief description of duties. Employers like this type of resume because it’s easy to see what jobs you have held and how they qualify you for the advertised position. A functional resume focuses on your skills and experience. The focus on what you did, not when and where you did it. It is used most often by people who are changing careers, have gaps in their employment history or very little work experience. This type of resume describes the achievements and abilities gained through work experience, vocational training, hobbies, volunteer work, community activities or just life experience. The employer can see immediately how you fit the job without having to read through the job descriptions to find out. There are also variations of these two types. A combination resume combines the traditional chronological listings and job descriptions with a quick synopsis of your market value (your skills, qualifications, accomplishments). It has become the accepted standard nowadays, and is perhaps most effective for today’s professionals. A targeted resume may be any of the three types above, but it is written for a specific company or a specific position. Hence, the focus is on your experience and skills relevant to the job you are applying for.
Task 4. II. WRITING A CV Task5. Additional vocabulary Ask yourself which personal skills on the next page match yours and how they may be applied to the workplace. Use these terms in your written applications, job interviews and anytime you are discussing your skills with a potential employer.
ARE YOU? PERSONAL SKILL
Task 6. A job application letter, also known as a cover letter, should be sent or uploaded with your resume when applying for jobs. The job application letters you send explain to the employer why you are qualified for the position and why you should be selected for an interview. Use the letter to highlight relevant information from your resume, without duplicating it. A letter of application. XYZ Company
Task 7. Read the text. What to Write Whom to Send It to. Normal thank-you letters are addressed to everyone who interviewed you. The big-boy/girl letter, however, only goes to the decision maker and/or the HR representative you dealt with. If the [rejection] letter you received is signed by the HR person … thank both of them. If it is signed by the hiring manager, you need to send a thank-you note only to that person. What to Say. Thank them for considering you for the opportunity. Tell them what impressed you about the company or the department you were being considered for. Let them know you would like to keep in touch and would like to be considered for future openings. Keep the letter brief and very positive. State that you were disappointed, but congratulate the hiring person(s) on having made a selection, and then wish them well. In a final, short paragraph reiterate a positive point from their interview that reflected well on the interviewer and, again, state that they’d like to be considered for future openings. Sample Letter The Fruits of Graciousness Frequently Employers are influenced by graciousness of a letter following a rejection and they might offer an applicant another job or just keep him/her in mind for further when another suitable position opens up. Calling can be a good alternative to sending a letter. Write a gracious letter. Tips Task 8. Task 8. A story of success On the surface, it might look like John Ord got lucky. After a relatively short job search, he was offered an opportunity to be the cloud manager for an IT services company in New York with a prestigious list of clients. Now he’s at the forefront of a hot technology discipline and working with some of the world’s leading financial companies. “This is the trend to be in, in this business,” Ord said. "This is the right place at the right time.” What’s more, Ord never really applied for the cloud manager job. Instead, he succeeded on the strength of his wider networking efforts. Ord treated his job search like it was a full-time job. He woke at 6 a.m. Monday to Friday, went to the gym, showered, ate breakfast and hit the job boards at full speed at 8 a.m. Breaking only for lunch, he’d work his network, research the job market and talk to recruiters all day long. By 5 p.m., Ord would have applied to 20 to 30 jobs. “I spent the whole day looking for jobs,” Ord said. “By doing that, I got my resume to lots and lots of recruiters.” The manual effort was helpful, but the resume, he said, was his secret weapon. Without writing a new one from scratch, Ord tailored his resume to each job application by working from a “master resume” that detailed all his skills and experience. When he found targeted jobs that met his requirements, he cut extraneous information from this master document and submitted the relevant details. This system allowed him to send targeted resumes to multiple job postings quickly. “The more kinds of resumes you can get out there … the more opportunities will come your way,” he said. “And be aware of the broad range of skills that you offer. … You get out what you put in. It is a numbers game.” That’s why he was able to land this cloud job in June, Ord said. The recruiter who brought the opportunity to his attention had Ord’s resume on file from a previous job application and thought he’d be a good candidate for the cloud manager position. “I didn’t apply specifically for this job,” he said. “Once I saw what the opportunity was, I was definitely interested.” The strategy paid off. It worked so well, in fact, that Ord is still being approached by recruiters months later.
Additional text GAIN A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE Degrees are no longer enough — employers are looking for skills in the workplace. Today, one in three young people enters higher education, and a degree is fast becoming the minimum qualification for any white-collar job. This is not to suggest that the value of a degree has diminished. We now live in a far more complex world and most jobs today require a much higher level of intellectual skills than ever before. Graduates enjoy higher pay and lower unemployment than non-graduates, but most employers will tell you that there is still a shortage of good graduates. So what do employers look for in graduate recruits? Certainly, they want intellectual skills acquired in taking a degree. These include the ability to collect and analyze information, to acquire special knowledge, to solve problems, and to communicate. In the past this was enough. When graduates were a small elite, employers could afford to invest in extended training programmes lasting between one and two years. Most graduate recruits today are expected to make an immediate contribution to the organization. This means that they need more than their academic qualifications. Employers look for a range of generic vocational skills which are useful in almost all types of work; they are usually known as ‘key skills’. Six key skills are approved by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) for incorporation into many vocational education and training programmes. These key skills are communication, using and presenting numerical data, information technology, team-working, improving your own learning and performance, and problem solving. Graduate employers certainly hope to find all of these, but they also look for some additional qualities such as adaptability and commercial awareness. Above all, they want recruits to have already had some practical experience of applying them. Certainly, all students should have some ‘quality work experience’ before they complete their full-time education. However, not enough employers offer suitable vacancies to provide this. Ideally, you would get vacation or part-time work relevant to your area of study so that you could start to apply theory to the world of work. But many students end up serving in retail shops, bars and fast-food outlets, or waiting in restaurants. The money is certainly useful, but does menial work (чорна робота) provide opportunities for useful learning and help your career prospects? It does. Even in the most menial jobs you can analyze everything you see and do and what your colleagues at all levels are doing. You can try and work out why things are organized in the way they are and why people act in the way they do. What do you find motivates the customers of your business – and annoys them? The job can be used as a learning opportunity so you can tell future recruiters what skills and understanding you have gained. Few people will find a lifetime employer. They will move between employers to gain greater expertise and experience. Many will be offered short-term contracts, others will be offered work as consultants on a self-employed basis. Graduates face more flexible though less certain futures. In going to university it is important to recognize that the future will be very different from the past, that you must learn to adapt and that you can and should learn from every experience of student life.
MODULE 2 I. CURRICULUM VITAE Task 1. Answer the questions before reading the text. What do you know about CVs? Have you ever written a CV? When do you need a resume? Choose the correct answer: when you leave school when you enter the university when you want to find a job What should a resume tell about?
Task 2. Read and memorize the following words and word combination:
1. opening вакансия 2. employer наниматель, работодатель 3. tool орудие, инструмент 4. employee работающий по найму 5. sale продажа 6. responsibilities обязанности 7. accomplishments достоинства 8. contribution вклад 9. neat ясный, точный, лаконичный 10. performance действие, деятельность 11. capabilities (неиспользованные ещё) возможности
Task 3. 1) Study the following information about ways of writing Curriculum Vitae: an outline of a person's educational and professional history, usually prepared for job applications.
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