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Unit 1 Careers (the career ladder)

Read this article from the Financial Times and answer the questions.

The unspoken rules of career success

By Teri Fisher

I had been to business school, but nothing I had learnt there provided an answer to what I saw in

my first working year: I discovered that the person being promoted above others in my organization

was not always the most knowledgeable or hardest working. New rules – „unspoken to rules‟ -

seemed to explain the differences between, say, an employee‟s performance review and the way his

or her career actually developed. I realized that is I needed to learn these rules fast or risk being left

behind.

Here are five of the most important:

1 Understand how you are seen.

2 Ask for and give honest and direct feedback.

3 Play by the rules until you are in a position to change them.

4 Work with, not against, the style of the people you deal with.

5 Don‟t be a victim of your career -take charge and make your own choices.

From the Financial Times

the alternative that means the same as the word(s) in italics.

a) ... but nothing I had learnt there provided an answer to____

i) gave ii) decided iii) removed

b) ... the Person being promoted above others _____

i) given a job with the same importance as before

ii) given a job with less importance than before

iii) given a job with more importance than before

c) ... unspoken rules _____

i) rules that employees did not know about

ii) rules that employees knew about but that they never talked about

iii) rules that employees knew about and talked about

d) ... the way his or her career actually developed.

i) in fact ii) right now iii) presently

e) I realized that I needed to learn these rules fast _____

i) succeeded ii) achieved iii) understood

f) ... or risk being left behind.

i) perhaps not succeed as well as others

ii) perhaps not work as hard as others

iii) perhaps not leave work when others left work

2. A company employee does these things, a)-e). Match each thing to one of the five unspoken

rules in paragraph 2.

a) I realized that a client had a good sense of humour, so I put some jokes in a proposal that I was

writing for him.

b) I thought I had good dress sense, but one day a colleague told me that my clothes were not

suitable for the office.

c) In a performance review, my manager told me I was not ambitious enough to succeed. And I told

her that she was too aggressive.

d) One day I realized that the company was not growing very fast, so I started looking for a job

somewhere else.

e) When I joined the company, I followed the rules even if thought they were stupid. Then, when I

got promoted, I started to change them.

Read this article from the Financial Times and answer the questions.(

the midlife crisis)

Making the most of the midlife crisis

Astrid Wendlandt

Feeling deeply bored and burnt out? If you are over 30, you may be showing the first signs of a

midlife crisis. You could completely change your career, as did Gauguin, the French painter who gave

up his job as a stockbroker to travel the world and paint.

But there are many ways of doing a Gauguin‟. For some it means going back to university, for

others it may be opening a beach bar in the Caribbean or finding a new partner. Those who are having

the money may take a year off to sail around the world and think about the meaning of life. Whatever

the exit, it usually takes courage to find it.

Midlife crises can happen at 31, at 56 or several times during one‟s life. As well as having a huge

personal impact, they can have a significant impact on organizations. At midlife, executives are

normally at the peak of, their careers and charged with making critical decisions.

Manfred Kets de Vries, professor of management and leadership at Instead business school,

Fontainebleau, France, interviewed 200 senior executives from around the world (average age 46) and

published a study of what they went through in midlife.

One interviewee, the chief executive of a Swedish newspaper, explained his feelings: „To my horror,

I would begin to disappear emotionally in the middle of presentations ... People would see it. They

would become nervous ...their attention would wander ...To this strange state of mind was also added

my inability to listen to and function with other people.‟

From the Financial Times

1. Imagine that each paragraph in the article has a heading. Choose the best heading for each

paragraph from the list below and number them in the correct order.

a) A business school professor interviewed 200 senior

managers around the world about the midlife crisis

( )

b) An example of someone in a midlife crisis

( )

c) Different people have different ideas about what

they would do if they had a midlife crisis

( )

d) Feeling bored may be the first sign of a midlife crisis

( )

e) Midlife crises can happen at almost any age from

early 30s onwards

( )

2. Choose the correct alternative. Then comment on the verb tenses in italics.

a) Feeling deeply bored and burnt out? If you are over 30, you may be showing the first signs of a

midlife crisis. This means that it is

i) certainly a midlife crisis. ii) possibly a midlife crisis. iii) certainly not a midlife crisis.

b) Those who have the money may take a year off to sail around the world ... This means that they