Topic 2

What You Offer the World-

Dream Job

Course Code: CII4D3

English for Career
 Hello! It’s Me!
I know myself and ready to explore the world

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Study guidance
LEARNING INTENTION SUCCESS CRITERIA
I will learn:
 I can know my personal preferences
 different preferences in job/
career  I decide what job I want for my career
 seven decision-making process
to choose appropriate job  I can use the simple present and
present continuous tense in describing
 the use of Simple Present and
myself and my dream job
Present Continuous Tense
 Useful expressions to describe  I can describe my dream job
job .

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 “Life is what happens to us while we
are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Employment outlook, 2015 - 2020
What’s your dream job..?
 MYERS-BRIGGS Explanation
• The original ideas of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
were created by Carl Gustav Jung in 1921.
• The actual test was officially published in 1962. The test was
created to help determine which careers would be best.
• It is a psychological analysis examination that determines
a person’s psychological character and how they perceive and
make decisions.
• The test is made of four different dichotomies or personality
descriptions.
One can either be:
1. Introverted or Extroverted
2. Sensing or Intuitive
3. Thinking or Feeling
4. Judging or Perceptive
16 Combination Types of MBTI
 refers to the specific position in which a person is
a employed. (e.g. Chief of Surgery, framing carpenter at
WeBuild.Co., IT construction company, lab assistant at
job DrugCo Pharma.)

is a wide category of jobs that have similar

an characteristics, such as types of skills or work
occupation responsibilities. A person can work at his or her
occupation for different employers. (e.g. doctor,
carpenter, biotechnologist)

is the body of work—all jobs and occupations—and

a
life experiences that a person experiences during his
career
or her lifetime.
 JOB VS. CAREER?

Job (noun)
• A job is a regular and official activity that you do, and receive
money (a salary) for your activity.
Career (noun)
• Your career is the total progression of your professional life.
It can include many different jobs over the years.
• You can have a career in (a field) – for example, a career in
politics / journalism / teaching / finance.
Using decision –making
process to choose an
appropriate job
Seven ways to discover what job you want
A Seven-Step Process
▪ A decision-making process is a
logical series of steps used to
identify and evaluate possibilities
and arrive at a good choice.

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 Using the Decision Making Process
to Choose a Career

Define your Analyze

Research
needs your
your career
personal Identify your choice
resource career choice

Plan how to
Evaluate you
career choice Make your reach your
decision goals
 Step 1: Define Your
Needs

Consider your hopes and dreams for the future.

Where do you want to live?

Do you want a job that allows you to travel?
Do you hope to grow old while your skills are still needed?
Do you want a job with multicultural settings?

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 Step 2: Analyze Your
Personal Resources
Your personal resources
are who you are and
what you have to offer. Your resources include your
values,
interests,
aptitudes and abilities, and
personality traits and styles of
learning.

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ep 3: Identify Your Career Choices
▪ Select several possible careers that match
your personal goals and resources.

▪ Keep your eyes and ears open to discover

“what’s out there.”

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Step 4: Research your career
choice

Find out all you can about the careers you identified in Step 3.

• Duties and responsibilities

• Your contribution to the career
• Good things you can gain from the career position
• etc

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Step 5: Evaluate
your career choice
Look at your career choices
in detail to see if they match
your personal goals and
resources.

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 Step 6: make your decision
If you discover that your career goal is
It is important to make a unrealistic or undesirable, you can
repeat the decision-making process to
decision and have a plan,
arrive at a new goal.
even if you later change
your career goal.

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Step 7: Plan How to
Reach
Your Goal

Once you’ve reached your career

decision, you can begin to plan
how to reach your goal.

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 2.1 Graphic Organizer

Using the Decision-Making Process

to Choose a Career
Step 1: Define your needs.
Step 2: Analyze your personal resources.
Step 3: Identify your career choices.
Step 4: Research your career choices.
Step 5: Evaluate your career choices.
Step 6: Make your decision.
Step 7: Plan how to reach your goals.
Chapter 2 • Getting to Know Yourself Succeeding in the World of Work
 PRACTICE
Let’s practice the seven decision-making process to choose an appropriate
job for you. You will be given 30 minutes to do it.

In your paper or note, write down and answer those seven steps:

1. Define your needs

2. Analyze your personal resources
3. Identify your career choice
4. Research your career choice
5. Evaluate your career choice
6. Make decision
7. Plan how to reach your goals
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 SIMPLE PRESENT &
PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
'I surf / I am surfing.'
What's the difference between the Present Simple / Present Continuous and how to use them.

We use the present simple tense We use the present continuous to talk

VS
when we want to talk about fixed about actions which are happening
habits or routines – things at the present moment, but will
that don’t change. soon finish.
Compare these two statements:
 (present simple) I play tennis.
 (present continuous/ progressive) I am playing tennis.

‘I play tennis’ tells us that playing tennis is something the speaker always does. It is part
of a routine or habit. We can call this a permanent situation.

‘I am playing tennis’ tells us that the speaker is playing tennis right now. Soon the game
will be over. We call this a temporary situation.
Useful Expression to Describe Job

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To describe a person’s job, you can say it is:
• a demanding job (requires a lot of effort)
Being an emergency surgeon is a demanding job – you have to
be on call 24 hours a day.

• a fulfilling / rewarding job (it makes you feel good)

Working with refugee children was one of the most rewarding
jobs I’ve had.

• an entry-level job (a job that can be done by someone

who is just beginning their career, which doesn’t require
much experience or many skills)
Daniel got an entry-level job as an administrative assistant.

http://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-job-work-and-career/
TO DESCRIBE A PERSON’S JOB, YOU
CAN SAY IT IS:
• a dead-end job (a job that has no opportunities
for advancement or promotions)
Being a truck driver is a dead-end job.

• a high-powered job (a dynamic and important job)

After she published her book, she got a high-powered job
as director of a national newspaper.

• a lucrative job (a job where you earn a lot of money)

My mother wants me to marry a guy with a lucrative job – like
a doctor or lawyer.

http://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-job-work-and-career/
Here are a few collocations with career:
• embark on a career = begin a career
• pursue a career = make an effort to have a career
• a promising career = a career with good future potential
• a varied career = a career with jobs in many different areas
• career prospects = career opportunities
• switch your career = change your career
• career takes off = when someone’s career starts to become very
successful
• at the height / peak of your career = at the most successful point in
your career
• ruin your career = when your career is destroyed
http://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-job-work-and-career/
 WORK (NOUN & VERB)
• The word work is more general than “job” –whereas “job” is a specific
occupation/profession;

• “Work” refers to general efforts and activities done to accomplish a goal.

• You can say you work at / for (a company):

“I work at General Motors.”
• You can say you’re working on (a project / task):
“I’m working on a market analysis” or
“I’m working on improving customer satisfaction.”
• You can say you work with (people / objects):
“I work with special needs children”
“I work with hazardous chemicals.”

http://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-job-work-and-career/
 WORK The word work also refers to the context of your place of
employment – so we can say:
(noun & verb) I start work at 7 AM. (not “I start my job at 7 AM”)
I finish / leave work at 4:30. (not “I finish my job at 4:30”)
– An informal way to say “leave work” is “get off work”

We go to work by car. (not “We go to our job by car”)

I went to the bar with some friends from work.”
I can’t access Instagram when I’m at work. (not “at my job”)

http://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-job-work-and-career/
Make a Draft to Describe Yourself and
Your Dream Job

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Task 1:

Make a video recording about yourself and your dream job.

Include the following points in your recording:

1. Your full name

2. Your education background
3. Your functional, personal traits, and knowledge-based skills
4. Your dream job and the reason you choose the job
5. And how do you see yourself in the next 5 years?

Remember! This is your first Task!

It covers 10% of your grade.
Do the recording as creative as you can and Do your Best!
Any questions?

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