SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE

 

BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE 4. SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

 

A Education and training Margareta: The rouble with graduates, people who’ve just left university, is that their paper qualifications are good, but they have no work experience. They just don’t know how business works. Nils: I disagree. Education should teach people how to think, not prepare them for a particular job. one of last year’s recruits had graduated from Oxford in philosophy and she’s doing very well! B Skilled and unskilled A skill is the ability to 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: C The right person These words are often used in job advertisements. Companies look for people who are: • self-starter, proactive, self-motivated, or self-driven: good at working on their own. • methodical, systematic and organized: can work in a planned, orderly way. • computer-literate: good with computers. • numerate: good with numbers EXERCISES 4.1 Correct the sentences about Ravi, using words from A opposite. One word is wrong in each item. 1. At 18, Ravi decided to stay in full-time training and went to Mumbai University. 2. Ravi qualified three years later with a degree in philosophy and politics. 4.2 Are these jobs generally considered to be highly skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled? Each expression is used twice. 1. teacher 2. brain surgeon 3. car worker on a production line 4. airplane pilot 4.3 Complete these extracts from job advertisements using words from C opposite. 1. You’ll need to be __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __, as you’ll be working on financial budgets. 2. As part of our sales team, you’ll be working independently, so you have to be self-__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and self-__ __ __ __ __ __.

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