Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica

hours a week, while people working __________ -time do around thirty-eight hours. PATR /
LULF
8. Officially, she works thirty-five hours a week but sometimes with _____________ she does as
many as fifty. VEOTIMRE
9. Now she works from home, she doesn't have to ____________ by train to and from London
every day. CMMOTUE
10. Nowadays many designers or information technology workers are ______________; that is,
they sell their work or services to different organizations. ERLENAEFC
Study the list of things which are important in a job
• opportunities for promotion
• comfortable working conditions
• status and respect
• interesting and satisfying work
• fringe benefits (e.g. company car, private health insurance)
• a good salary and holidays
• colleagues I like
• a fair and reasonable boss
• training opportunities
• job security
1) Choose the three which are most important and least important to you.
2) Compare your answers with a partner and agree on the same list.
3) As a class, decide the three most and least important.
Look at the adjectives below. Divide them into those that describe people and those that describe
the job. Which adjectives can describe both?
enthusiastic secure confident challenging
dynamic flexible stressful patient
boring reliable creative conscientious
trustworthy worthwhile ambitious
What do employers want?
Skills
Many employers think that skills (what you can do) and personal qualities (what you’re like as a
person) are as important, if not more important, than paper qualifications.
Generic
(General, transferable skills needed in nearly all jobs)
• Communication
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