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Unit 10: Finding work
Answers Students’ own answers.
Extra practice Students create a top three of popular personality traits in their class. Which characteristics do most students think they possess?
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Set for individual work and pairwork checking. Feed back. Check the pronunciation of CV and résumé.
Answers A CV is a summary of a person’s working life. It’s called a résumé in the USA. Pronunciation: CV \si…vi…\ and résumé \rez´meI\
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Ask students to read Zhang Lianzhong’s CV. Tell students it’s not a very good one. Elicit ideas for improvement, but do not confirm or correct. You could write the suggestions on the board in note form.
Check that students understand the task. Play the
recording. Students complete individually, and then compare answers in pairs. Ask students if they predicted any information correctly. Then focus specifically on the correct answers as shown below, OR use a visual medium to show the CV and add the relevant ticks and notes.
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What is good or bad about the CV: Students’ own answers. Good points: • name at the top in bold • same font throughout •
sections
• doesn’t use colour • personal information
Bad points: •
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nationality and date of birth – not needed, not in the UK at least
Personal statement – doesn’t give details of personality or skills; the statement is not very useful
Education – should be in reverse, chronological order, i.e., most recent at the top
• Work experience – doesn’t talk about holiday jobs, etc. •
Skills – doesn’t give any detail, and history is a subject not a skill
• Personal interests – doesn’t give information about why • References – not appropriate people for references
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The first thing is … don’t write CV at the top. We know it’s a CV! Put your name in big bold writing so it makes an impression immediately. Next, use the same font throughout. Something simple and easy to read. Um, let me see. It’s important to divide the CV into sections – like Personal Statement, Education, um … Work Experience, and so on. You should put the section headings in bold, but don’t use colour. We often have to photocopy CVs and we only use black and white, of course. So colour is a waste of time.
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One important thing. The top of the CV is for personal details. But remember: you only need four things. Name, postal address, email address and phone number. That’s it. Don’t put nationality, passport number, or any other information. We don’t need to see that. Oh, and by the way – this is quite important – make sure you have a sensible email address! Some people have an address from years ago, when they were children, and they look very bad on a CV. After the personal details, you should put a short personal statement. Write three or four lines. Don’t talk about education or interests. Talk about your personality and skills. For example, ‘I’m very ambitious and highly qualified’. Or … I don’t know … er … ‘I’m reliable and hard-working’. Something like that. You can also say the things you like here, if they are relevant to the job application. For example, ‘I enjoy working with children’, if you are applying to work in the children’s ward of a hospital. After the Personal Statement, you should talk about your education. Really only one point here. Start with the last part of your education, not the first part. Your university course or your secondary course is much more important for an employer than your primary school. And remember to put your qualifications – the exams you passed and the grades you got. After the Education section comes Work Experience. Now, some people say, ‘But I don’t have any work experience. I’ve never had a job’. Well, what about holiday work, weekend work, or evening work? You can talk about any kind of job here. For example, ‘I worked as an assistant nurse in the Morton Old Age Care Home last summer’. Oh, and don’t forget the job title, such as assistant nurse, is important. But job duties are more interesting for an employer. For example, ‘I helped with patient enquiries’ or ‘I worked night shifts’ or ‘My duties included dealing with families’, or ‘I gave medications to patients’. The section on Skills is very important. Everybody has lots of skills. Always mention computing skills, so you can put ‘I have certificates in using Word and Excel’. Maybe you know a foreign language, so put it here. ‘I can speak Chinese quite well’, or ‘I know a little Arabic’. Right. What’s left? Well, the section of Personal Interests … This is a good place to talk about yourself. Give your hobbies and interests, but always give a reason. For instance, ‘I play football because I like being part of a team’. Or, ‘I enjoy playing computer games because you learn to make quick decisions in difficult situations’. Maybe you like reading because you find out about the world and different cultures. The final section should be References. Employers often want to check the information in a CV or to find out more about an applicant. Write the names and contact details of two people. Choose a tutor or a recent employer, not a friend or a relative.
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