unit 2 Recession-proofing Your Career 综合英语上册课件 研究生英语读写译教程.ppt

Recession-proof Your Career Pre-reading Activities While-reading Activities Post-reading Activities Discussion What is an ideal job in your mind? What can guarantee your employability? Discuss the positives and negatives of earning a master/doctorate degree for your career’s development. Reading Comprehension Vocabulary Phrases Error detection and correction Cloze  [1] Is your career recession-proof? [2] Let’s be clear. I am not talking about the security of your current job, because these days no job is secure. Even through the boom years, organizations continued to restructure and downsize to become evermore effective and competitive. A future downturn in the business cycle will only accelerate the pace of changeand make careful career management even more crucial. [3] These days, no matter what our official employment status, we are all temporary workers. Whether we have conventional full-time jobs or are contingent, contract, or freelance workers, we are all living and working in TempWorld. In TempWorld everything shifts rapidly. Nothing is forever, everything is temporary: where you work, what you do there, the skills you use, the people you work with. [4] In this fast-shifting world, there can be no guarantee attached to any particular job. But there is much that you can do to protect yourself from change and economic upheaval, by equipping yourself with the skills to manage your career more effectively. You need to become a career activist. [5] Being a career activist means stepping back from the frenzy of daily business to reflect on what you are doing, why you are doing it, and whether it meets your short- and long-term needs. It means taking the long view of your career. [6] To recession-proof your career in the uncertain environment of TempWorld, you need to respond specifically to new work trends. Here are some strategies that career activists can take to improve their economic prospects for the future