Unit 2 Jobs and Careers Objectives: ★ first listen, and then learn to ask about job opportunities and go for job interviews ★ read about online job applications and dream jobs ★ write about how to find a potential job ★ practice the use of unreal conditions ★ write your own résumé ★ visit Culture Salon to learn to tell the difference between job and career I Passage A Your Dream Job: A Click Away 1. Summary Since most students will choose to work after graduation, job-hunting is of great importance to them. They will write plenty of résumés about their education and send them to the companies they want to work for. It takes both time and energy to do so. Now, thanks to the development of the Internet, job-hunting has become much easier. Job-hunters can find a job just by clicking a mouse on the computer. Many of them make their dream come true through the Internet. This article describes the experiences of five people who used online sources to look for new jobs. Theresa Smith used the JOB-TRAK website to find an administrative assistant’s job at a university. Steven Tools used the CareerBuilder website to find a marketing management position. Madeline Gragg used Yahoo! to find a job teaching English in Japan. Nedzad Dozlic used a newspaper website to find a driver’s job with a car dealership. Wendy Mello used CareerBuilder to find a position in human resources for a media-information-services company. Mello also used another website to calculate the cost of living in her new location and to decide what salary to request. All these are typical examples of online job searches, since many different types of jobs can now be found this way. 2.Language Points 1. career:...
