Old an new ways

I´m an office worker in a insurance company. It´s a nine-to-five jobwith regular working hours. The work isn´t very interesting, but I like to be able to go home at a reasonable time.
We all have to clock in a clock hour every day. In this company, even the managers have to, is unusuall.



I´m in computer programming. There´s a system of flextime in my company, wich means we can work when we want, within certian limits. We can start at any time before eleven, and finish as early as three, as long as wedo enough hours each month. it´s ideal for me as I have two young children.

Appying for a Job

Fred is a van driver, but he was fed up with long trips. He looked on the situations vacant pages on his local newspaper, where a local supermarket was advertising for van drivers for a new delivery service. He applied for the job by completing an application form and sending it in-

Harry is a building enginieer. He saw a job in the appointments pages of one of the nationals papers. He made an application, sending his CV (curriculum vitae) and a convering letter explaining why he wanted the job and why he was the right person for it.

Recruiment

the proces of finding people for particular jobs is recruiment or, especially in American English, hiring. someone who has been recruited is a recruit or, in American English, a hire. The company employs or hies them; they join the company. A company may recruit employees directly or use outside recruiters, recruitment agencies or employment agencies. Outside specialist called headhunters may be called on to headhunt people of very important jobs, persuading them to leave the rganizations they already work for. This process is called headhumting

Skill and Unskilled

a skill is the ability to do something well, especially because you have learned how to do it and practised it.
Jobs, and the people who do them, can be described as:

highly skilled skilled semi-skilled unskilled
(e.g car designer) (e.g. car production (e.g. taxi driver) (e.g. car cleaner)
manager)




+ noun
customer care
electronics
computer software
skillied at, ---------------------
or skilled in... +ing
communicating
using PCs
working with large groups

In tis section I learnen about:

Recruitment: is look for people(may be one or more) who fulfill the requirement for doing an especific job.

Applaying for a job: Is asking for a job maybe sendig a curriculum or an application.

selection procedures: is not only choose the personal, but is all the process behind that.

In this section I learned:

Nature of work

+ noun

human contact

long hours

team work

My work involves...

+ing

solving problems

traveling a lot

dealing with customers

work and jobs

In this secton I learned the difference betwen Work & Job.
Work usually is used to refer the place, and job is what do we do!
Word combination with ¨work¨ such as:
*go to work
*at work
*work in

Types of work and job, such as:
*Full-time
*Part-time
*fixed period
*temporary