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

Recession-proofing Your Career;Recession-proof Your Career;Discussion;; [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 change---and make careful career management even more crucial.;;1.Ensure Your Employability;Ensure Your Employability;Ensure Your Employability;Create a Fallback Position;Create a Fallback Position;Know Your Key Skills;Know Your Key Skills;Prepare for Areas of Competence;Prepare for Areas of Competence;Market! Market! Market!;Market! Market! Market!;Market! Market! Market!;Act Type A, Think Type B ;Act Type A, Think Type B;Build Emotional Resilience;Stay Culturally Current;Stay Culturally Current;Is your career recession-proof?Is your career planned well enough so that you are insured against recession?;combines with nouns and verbs to form adjectives e.g. In a large microwave-proof dish, melt butter for 20 seconds. ;A future downturn in the business cycle will only accelerate the pace of change — and make careful career managementmore crucial. ;;attach v.;;To survive this scenario you must be able to evaluate the currency of your skills--- not just by the standards set by your current employer, but by wider industry and professional standards.;;Don’t let yourself be held back by a lack of skill portability, or fear of change. ;hold back ;hold back;;Because they have become so closely identified with a particular company or industry, their skills are not perceived as being readily transferable to other settings.;identify with;;;;;not so much…as: not one thing but rather sth. else;embark on: (embarks, embarking, embarked );Actually, most people will not be embarking on entirely new careers so much as reconfiguring existing ski