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Answer the questions. Language training. Strategic, take, conduct, vital, update, newly minted, keep, prospective, pursue, two-page.
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Answer the questions
- Are you the one who chose his/ her research with a job in mind?
- What is the ideal job you want? Have you got the skills necessary for it?
- What skills have you developed while in your graduate program? Make up a track of your skills.
- Do you know how to turn your research project into a career?
- What will you do if you cannot find a job that matches your research skills?
LANGUAGE TRAINING
Ex. 1. Fill in the correct word from the list:
strategic, take, conduct, vital, update, newly minted, keep, prospective, pursue, two-page.
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Ex. 2. Fill in the correct preposition, then choose any item and make up a sentence.
To be concerned ……. smth; to be savvy …………. doing smth; to keep in touch …… smb; to be strategic ……… smth; feel confident …………... smth; to have a passion ………… smth; to be ………. a master’s program; to be thrilled …… smth; to focus ….. smth; to be immersed …..
Ex. 3. Match the expressions to their synonyms.
1.  to face an issue
2. to keep in touch with someone
3. to broach the quandary
4. to climb on the academic ladder
5. to be groomed for smth
6. to re-package yourself for a new job
7. to jump over a hurdle
8. to keep a foot in
9. to display attributes
| a. to remain b. to demonstrate qualities or features c. to maintain communications with someone d. to find new ways of selling your skills on the job market e. to overcome an obstacle or difficulty f. to confront a problem g. to pursue academic career h. to be prepared for a specific position or purpose i. to get uncertain about what to do |
Ex. 4. Read the definition[67].
| qualified, adj being skilled or educated for a certain job |
Think about its related forms well-qualified, quasi-qualified, under-qualified, overqualified. Explain what they mean. How can you characterize yourself? Is a person with a college degree qualified for every position available? Have you ever been told you were under-qualified for a job? What job are you overqualified for? Discuss these questions with your partner. Then complete the sentences[68].
1. Job candidates that significantly exceed their job requirements…
2. An experienced high level manager who seeks a low level management position…
3. Employers when they do not want to reveal their true reasons for not hiring an applicant…
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4. When an employer concerns that an applicant wants a job on a temporary basis, while he or she seeks another more desirable position, or an applicant is too old...
5. In the corporate world, some Ph. D. graduates have been criticized as being…
Ex. 5. Fill in the ovals with the words that contain the same root. Then complete the sentences below.
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1. The secretary was busily ……….. in typing letters.
2. Knowledge and skills are basic factors that make people …………………….. .
3. His ………. dismissed him without providing a justified reason for firing.
4. A person’s ………….. depends on the knowledge, skills and abilities he or she possesses.
5. She is of those ………… whose knowledge and skills are not easily replaceable.
6. Each year the U. S. private sector ………. over one hundred million people.
7. The conference participants discussed the problems and prospects for youth ………… in Russia.
Ex. 6. Arrange a dialogue with your partner discussing your plans after graduation. Don’t forget to ask him/ her
- if he/ she is going to pursue the graduate studies or start a job search
- what the criteria of a good job for him/ her are
- what salary would satisfy him/ her
- what benefits he/she would like to have
- if he/ she would prefer to work as a university teacher. Why?
- what actions he/she is going to take in the process of job search
- what the best way to find a suitable vacancy is
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