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IV. Match Russian and English equivalents.
| 1) work conditions 2) work experience 3) employment book 4) employment office 5) family income 6) income tax 7) application form 8) request application 9) retire 10) resume/ curriculum vitae(CV) 11) be sacked/ dismissed | a) доход семьи b) заявление о приёме на работу c) уйти на пенсию d) быть уволенным e) трудовая книжка f) письменная просьба g) трудовой стаж h) служебная и личная характеристика i) отдел кадров j) условия труда k) подоходный налог |
V. Answer the questions using the active vocabulary.
1. What are normal working hours for most office jobs in our country?
2. Can you name three jobs that get very high salaries in our country?
3. When you start paying income tax in our country, what is the minimum amount you have to pay?
4. What jobs often involve shiftwork? (Give at least two examples.)
5. Is flexitime common in our country?
VI. Job hunting is not easy nowadays. Read the text and say what problems Arthur had while looking for a job.
Looking for a Job
As Arthur was coming to the end of his course at the Earl Court Polytechnic, he began to wonder what he would be doing after it was all over. During the weekends of the summer term he would sit in his flat going through the job columns of the Observer and the Sunday Times looking at the possible openings in industry or commerce that might start him on the road to becoming a tycoon. First he might start modestly as a trainee in management, then go on to become a junior executive and then end up as a man with a plum job with a company car, an expense account and all the perks of a high-powered job. He would imagine himself sitting in the back of a long chauffeur-driven car either issuing instructions to his subordinates over the car telephone or dictating letters and memoranda into a dictating machine. Or he would be sitting at an impressive leather-topped mahogany desk with three telephones, an expensive carpet on the floor, and a pretty secretary sitting opposite him, pencil poised waiting to take down that important directive that would affect the lives of millions. Or again he would be flying to New York on his way to an important international trade conference. His fantasies were endless.
The realities of the situation were, however, somewhat different. He was at that moment an averagely impoverished student living partly on his young wife’s earnings with just about enough to pay the rent, rates and fuel bills and to eat modestly – at least until his course finished at the end of the following month when his student days would come to an end.
He had already filled in at least fifteen application forms, written as many letters of application and had received back six postcards informing him politely that the post he had applied for had already been filled. Another seven had been written saying that his communication was acknowledged and would be receiving attention in due course. The rest of his efforts had met with no response whatsoever. He was beginning to feel that if he were a little younger he might stand a better chance.
So despite Arthur’s fantasies he was not feeling especially confident when he started to write a letter to a firm called Robinson’s Electronics who were advertising for a management trainee to start in September at their headquarters in North London.