IV. Answer these questions using the active vocabulary of the text

1. What careers does business offer?

2. What questions should you answer while choosing a business career?

3. What will help you in choosing a suitable and successful career in business?

4. What does it mean to have a career?

5. How does a career characterize people?

6. What are the steps of individual career planning?

7. What will help the organization remain competitive in our global economy?

8. Read Case 1 and explain how Jackson was moved to the international desk.

9. What other examples of successful career paths can you give?

V. Read the text again and decide whether these statements are true (T) or

False (F).

1. Nowadays the opportunities for a business career have declined in variety and number.

2. Kim Jackson became a political correspondent on Capitol Hill of her love politics, hard work, excellent research and writing skills.

3. The newspaper didn’t provide an opportunity for Kim Jackson to move to the international desk and she left the job.

4. Most people do not want to pursue a career; they want just to go to work.

5. The difference between a career and a job is about 20 hours a week.

6. To understand careers we must look only at people’s work histories or resumes.

7. Individual career planning normally entails four steps.