Jobs and professions may require people to have specific skills.
Consider the explanations
below and the photos from the previous activity. What hard skills and what soft skills may be
required for the jobs you see there?
Hard skills are knowledge Soft skills can include social skills as well
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and technical abilities a as personality traits that are applied to
person needs to be able to interpersonal activities. A person can develop
do a job or perform a task. them through training and practice.
They can be learned through
education and experience, and Based on: HARD skills vs soft skills: definitions and differences. Jobstreet.
they can be measured. [S. l.], Apr. 8, 2024. Available at: [Link]
-advice/article/hard-skills-vs-soft-skills-definitions-and-differences.
Accessed on: Jul. 16, 2024.
Before Reading
1. What are your top strengths and interests? How do you think they might influence your
career choices?
2. What steps are necessary to explore your career options effectively?
While Reading
3. Read an extract from Guide for Choosing the Right Career Path, written by
the Nigerian lawyer Edeh Samuel Chukwuemeka, for the Bscholarly website.
Then, answer the questions about it in your notebook.
How To Choose A Career Path: […] Essential Tips
[…]
1. Write down your strengths: To succeed in choosing a career, it is imperative for you
to understand yourself. Take a long look into yourself and check for your values, interests,
skills and personality. These will all be needed in choosing a career path. For a more
detailed assessment, ask close friends, parents and anyone who is likely to tell you the
truth to help by telling you what they think you are good at.
Also there are tests, career tests online to help gather your traits and skills, through questions
which would be directed to you, to be answered truthfully. You could also go to a career counselor
to help guide your choices by using your interests and strengths as a blue print.
2. Make a list of careers to explore: You have interests in certain fields but are
confused on how to go from the list you have made, what to do and which to choose from.
This stage is very normal. […]
3. Narrow your list: You have made a list of the careers which you think you might do well in,
you have also researched based on the questions stated in number 2. It is fair to say now, based on
the research made so far, that you know which career you think you can do well in, which career
looks appealing to you and which career you know you will not be caught dead doing.
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[…]
4. Network: This is the most crucial point of choosing a career. The network you are
able to make goes a long way to determine how well you perform and how successful you
become in that profession. Make […] yourself visible on social media, follow people who
seem to be top professionals in that career, meet with people successful in the careers, ask
them questions, make yourself noticed.
[…]
5. Put on your thinking cap: The thinking cap is a metaphor for making an informed
decision with the information you have been able to gather. Leave nothing behind. […]
6. Identify your goals: A goal is something you intend to achieve within a given period. Once
you make your decision, write down your goals, short term goals, long term goals. They help to
set you on motion, to motivate you into doing better and achieving better within a short period.
[…]
CHUKWUEMEKA, Edeh Samuel. How To Choose A Career Path: 11 Essential Tips. Bscholarly. [Enugu], Jun. 14, 2023. Available at:
[Link]
Accessed on: Jul. 31, 2024.
a. What role do external opinions play in succeeding in choosing a career, according to the
author of the text?
b. Explain the significance of networking, according to the author, and describe the specific
actions recommended to build a professional network effectively.
c. Why does the author emphasize the importance of writing down your goals?
4. Choose the best alternative to complete each sentence about the text.
a. According to the text, career tests and career counselors ...
... help you decide your career quickly. ... offer job placements directly.
... provide detailed assessments of your traits ... help you write your resume.
and guide your choices.
After Reading
5. How have your strengths and interests influenced your decisions? How might understanding these factors
impact your future career choice? If money and location were not issues, what career would you choose and why?
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While Reading
1. Read extracts from a report produced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), entitled Women in
the Workforce: an unmet potential in Asia and the Pacific. Then, answer the questions about it.
WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE
Extract 1
[…] Trends in Female Labor Force Participation [...]
The female labor force participation (FLFP) rate varies considerably across the globe, despite some clustering
within regions […].
Extract 2
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[…] Women allocate their time differently from men
How women allocate their time is different from men, and this can be a key source of inequality between
women’s and men’s participation in the labor force. At all levels of household income, women do the majority
of housework and care, so they correspondingly spend less time in labor market work. In other words, they
contribute to economic welfare through activities such as child -rearing and housework, tasks that are not
accounted for in gross domestic product (GDP). […]
Extract 3 Extract 4
[…] Causes of the Perpetuation of Women’s […] The performance of selected Asian
Low Productivity countries in women’s economic empowerment
The World Development Report in 2012 suggested that [...]
without intervention, there is a danger that some of Policy considerations for any given country will depend
these persistent trends that lead to low female market on the nature and severity of its gender gap problem.
productivity will be perpetuated across time and However, it is important that appropriate policies
generations. If women are perceived as less productive should address many interrelated issues that cut across
today, there is less investment and desire to increase cultures and income groups. For example, increasing
their productivity tomorrow, this creating a “low- childcare options for working parents, raising access to
productivity trap”. [...] technical and vocational education, reducing barriers to
In some countries, the low-productivity cycle can get international trade and making job information more
perpetuated because women acquire less old-age income available are examples of initiatives that benefit both
than men. If women are outside of the labor market women and men. To be effective, every policy response
for more years on average, and their average wages are should take into account the specifics of the country’s
lower, pension benefits will also tend to be low, this thus history, culture, social norms, progress of socioeconomic
increasing their dependence on younger family members. development, and other relevant factors or conditions.
[…] […]
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Women in the Workforce: an unmet potential in Asia and the Pacific. Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2015. Available at: https://
[Link]/sites/default/files/publication/158480/[Link]. Accessed on: Jul. 31, 2024.
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a. Read Extract 2. Why do women allocate time differently in the labor force than men?
b. Read Extract 3. What is the connection between lower pension benefits and women’s
productivity in jobs?
c. Read Extract 4. What are some initiatives that can help improve women’s
economic empowerment?
After Reading
4.
Read the following extract from Text 2 and answer: What should the Brazilian policy response to
women’s economic empowerment consider? Make connections with the knowledge you have built in
other subjects and courses at school to help organize your answer.
To be effective, every policy response should take into account the specifics of the country’s
history, culture, social norms, progress of socioeconomic development, and other relevant
factors or conditions.
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B. What are the most common problems women face in the workplace in your city or region? In
groups, discuss the problems and rank them from the most serious to the least serious in our
city/region.
List of Problems
1. Wage inequality (pay gap)
2. Harassment (sexual and moral)
3. Double shift (work + housework)
4. Lack of opportunities
5. Promotion barriers (glass ceiling)
6. Lack of respect for maternity rights
7. Prejudice against women in leadership positions
8. Underestimation of women’s skills
9. Few role models or mentors
10. Pressure to “look professional” according to beauty standards
