| 單元內容 |
Career Preparation
Factors to consider in choosing a career:
1. Your interest, abilities, aptitude and personality
2. the career potential for future development
3. its values to you and to society.
Factors to consider in choosing a job:
1. your interest and current and future job market
2. the abilities and educational degree it needs, the vacancies it offers
3. payment, welfare system and benefits
4. potential for advancement (its upward mobility)
5. work hour (whether it is too stressful or not)
Factors to consider when applying for a job:
1. All of the above;
2. How it prepares you for developing your career;
3. Your abilities and marketability.
4. How to package and present yourself.
Factors to consider when applying for school here or abroad:
1. your interest
2. your family situation and financial background
3. your emotinal life and health.
Words and Expressions Related to Study and Work
Study:
1) Time Management and study habit:
What kind of learner are you?
Do you know how you feel at different stages of learning?
What's your direction/purpose in learning?
hectic life, distraction, concentrated, breathing space, spreading oneself too thin, workaholic, filing system, set/assign priorities
run out of time, schedule/budget one's time, plan ahead, allocate time for, fall behind, catch up on
study habit: glimpse/browse through, peruse (read closely), review and memorize, digest and absorb, internalize; intrinsic and external motivation, self-paced and automatic learner, incentive-driven, goal-oriented
2) Feeling
overwhelmed, panicky, disoriented, overloaded, exhausted, stressful, burned out, lose the momentum interested, intrigued, self-motivated, entertained, alleviate stress
3) Direction
career preparation, cultivation of the mind, sharpening critical abilities, areas of concentration, specialities, marketability, versatility
Work:
1) Criteria to choosing a career area:
personal interest, aptitude, high-salaried, lucrative, challenging, prestigious, sense of fulfillment, opportunities for advancement/promotion/continued education, paper pusher, stability, fringe benefits, flexibility, mobility
2) Job-Hunting
qualifications: interpersonal skills, academic qualifications, qualifying exams, job openings/vacancies, head-hunter, starting salary, stiff competition, current trends in the job market
|
|
