【Group A】Listening Practice_The best career path isn’t always a straight line

1. What do the two speakers had in common 20 years ago at college?

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2. What mattered most to the speakers in their first few years of work?

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3. Speaker A was previously working on foldable credit cards and is currently working for another company
that specializes in

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4. Speaker B moved from making magazines to working on food waste because

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5. The interview question, “Where do you see yourself in five years’ time?”, reward and motivate people who

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6. In the early 1900s, career ladders were created as ________________________________________

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7. ______________ that we have right now won’t be relevant by year _____________.

8. The speaker suggest that in order to lose the ladder, we should start with

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9. In squiggly careers, everybody is a ______________ and a ______________.

10. The MVF is a ____________________________________________ company that introduced a program
called ________________________________________.

11. Exploring our career possibilities gives us more options to see how we can
____________________ in new ways and ______________________ that might be useful for our future.

12. List TWO examples of what employees of Cook can explore at the “Dream Academy”

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13. The Speakers ask the audience to advocate for squiggly careers by

1) helping others to explore their _____________________________ if you are a

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2) giving others the confidence to see how they can use their ________________ in new ways if you are a
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