Experiencing English 2

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Experiencing English 2
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Unit 2Jobs and Careers
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Unit 2Jobs and Careers
In this unit, you will
? first listen, and then learn to ask about job
opportunities and go for job interviews ? read
about online job applications and first job
experiences ? learn new words and expressions ?
write your own résumé ? visit Culture Salon for
some new terms in careers ? check goals.
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home
Teaching procedures I.
Listen and Talk
Lead in
Dialogue Samples
II. Read and Explore
Passage A
Think About It
Related Information
Notes to the Text
Summary of the Text
Words and Expressions
Understanding the Text
III. Culture Salon
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Unit 2Jobs and Careers
Part I
Listen
Talk
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Unit 2Jobs and Careers
Directions Listen to the following passage and
try to fill the missing words. Click here to
listen.
What kind of job are you looking
for? The classified ads are a good place to begin
a 1.___ for employment. They are a great resource
to learn about what companies look for in
employees and 2. ___ a little information about
the company as well.Applying and interviewing for
a job requires skills worth developing.Being able
to 3. ___   one's strengths, effectively
communicating with 4. ___ , having a desire to
learn more about the 5. ___ , and displaying
enthusiasm can sometimes make up for
inexperience. As you look at the pictures, think
about the different 6. ___   each profession or
vocation requires. A construction worker, a
waiter and a farmer may not need higher education
for their pursuits, but it 7. ___   helps.
Secretarial work requires less education than
being a teacher or a doctor, but each job is
important in society. While
becoming a teacher requires a 8. ___   of four
years study at a university, teaching entails
constant learning. Understanding deeply the
subject matter being taught and discovering the
9. ___   of students are just two areas of 10.
___   for teachers. Many studies continue to
research how to effectively teach and how to
teach students to effectively learn. In one way
or another, we are all teachers.
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• keys
• 1. search 2.offer
• 3. identify 4. confidence
• 5. employer 6. qualifications
• 7. certainly 8. minimum
• 9. learning style 10. importance

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• Dialogue Samples
• Dialogue 1
• Asking About a job Opening
• A applicant calls a
• company asking about
• a job for a clerk typist.

Applicant
personnel
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• Dialogue 1
• Asking About a job Opening
• Key words and patterns
• ? qualifications for the job. ?
  temporary or permanent job? ? The starting
  salary is 1200 per month, plus the basic
  benefits such as health insurance, sick leave,
  and paid vacation .

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• Dialogue 2
• Interviewing for a job
• the personnel manger
• interviews the applicant
• about his application
• for a nurse assistant.

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• Dialogue 2
• Interviewing for a job
• Key words and patterns
• Do you have any experience in this type of work?
• Why did you leave your last job?
• What are your future career plans?
• Do you want full-time or part-time work?
• What are your strengths?
• What salary do you expect?

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Unit 2Jobs and Careers

• Passage A
• Your Dream
• Job A Click Away

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Lead-in Pictures
Before reading Passage A, describe the following
pictures .
Free career sites like Careerbuilder that enable
job seekers to search for jobs on dozens of the
best careers
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• 
  Unit 2 Jobs
  and Careers
• These photos are all related to job and
  career. Describe them to your classmates with the
  help of the following question.
• 1. What are the most effective ways to find a
  job?
• 2. What are the major procedures you
• need to know in applying for a job?
• 1) Read the Want Ads in the
• newspapers for suitable vacancies.

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• 2) Phone or write to the contract person.
• 3) The contract person, either the employer
  himself or a representative , will advise the
  applicant about The job if it has not yet been
  taken, and grant the applicant an interview if he
  or she chooses to. Occasionally an interview may
  take place by phone, but most often contract
  person will want to see the applicant or vice
  versa.

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• 4) If an interview is granted, the applicant will
  be asked many questions, both personal and
  professional, so that the employer can decide
  whether or not the applicant is suitable for the
  job. The applicant may also ask questions as he
  or she , too, must make sure about the
  suitability of the job. But many personal
  questions are prohibited because of anti-
  discrimination.
• 3.How much money
• do you want to earn
• per month?

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• 4. What kind of job would you like to pursue
  as your career? Explain
• 5. What are necessities of finding a good
  job?
• A college degree is a career necessity in
  today's business world.
• Enough professional
• knowledge
• Enough work experience
• A resume

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• Words and expressions
• 1.access v. find information, especially on a
  computer ????
• eg She accessed three different files to find
  the correct information.
• access n. 1) A means of approaching, entering.
• eg There is no access to the street through
  that door.
• 2) the right to approach, enter,
  or make use of.
• eg The journalist has no access to the
  restricted area.
• 2. Annual a. (happening, appearing, etc.) every

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• year or once a year ?????
• eg What is your annual income?
• yearly annual ring(??)
• 3.calculator n. a small machine which can
• perform calculations ???
• eg a pocket calculation
• Calculate v. 1) find out or make a firm guess
  about , esp. by using numbers.
• eg They use a computer to calculate the cost of
  wages as a percentage of the companys income.
• 2) be calculated to do sth to
  be planned with the intention of ?? ?????
• eg The new regulations are calculated to make

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• cheating impossible.
• Calculus n.????
• 4.Classified adj. with information arranged in
  groups according to subjects.
• eg If you look in the classified part of the
  telephone book you will find plenty of
  companies.
• be classified as ???
• be classified by ???
• be classified into ???
• 5.Criterion n. a standard or principle by which
  something is judged ??

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• eg What criteria do you use to judge a good
  wine?
• criteria or criterions (pl.)
• 6.elevate v. raise, especially to a higher rank
  or position ??,??
• eg He was elevated to the rank of captain.(??)
• 7.entry n. 1) a piece of information that is
  written or included in a list, a book, etc. ??
• eg She made an entry in her diary to remind
  herself of the date.
• 2) (into) the act of coming or
  going
• eg He was charged with trying to gain illegal
  entry into the builing.

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• 8. Intrigue v. interest (someone) a lot,
  especially by being strange, unusual or
  mysterious ??????
• eg You intrigue me tell me more.
• intrigue n. the act of planning secretly
• eg She got to her present high position by
  intrigue.
• intriguing adj. very interesting fascinating
• eg an intriguing idea/ story/ woman
• 9. Procedure n. a set of actions necessary for
  doing something ??
• Eg Writing a cheque is quite a simple procedure.
  

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• 10.Profile n. 1) a short description, especially
  of a persons life and character ??????
• eg A complete profile of president
• 2) a side view, esp. of
  someones head.
• eg he drew her profile.
• 11.Refer v.1) (to) mention or speak out
• eg The scientist referred to the discovery as
  the most exciting new development in this field.
• 2) refer to sth to look at for
  information

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• eg Let me just refer to my notes to find the
  exact figures.
• 12.Scan v. look at quickly without careful
  reading, often looking for a particular thing
  ??,??
• eg I scanned the list of names to see if hers.
• 13.Spot v. 1) pick out with the eye ??,??
• eg He is a very tall man, easy to spot in a
  crowd.
• 2) (with) usu, in pass. mark with
  spots.
• eg I chose a white cloth spotted with green.

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Unit 2Jobs and Careers
Part II
Read
Explore
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Contents

• Related Information
• Notes to the Text
• Summary of the Text
• Words and Expressions
• Understanding the Text

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• WARM UP ACTIVITIES
• Questions
• 1. What do you usually do with the internet?
  And do you think the internet will be used more
  extensively in your lifetime?
• References
• Many students log on the internet frequently.
  They may use the internet to search for useful
• information they need,
• visit a chat room, email
• messages to their friends,
• or play video games.

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• 2. Have you ever thought about how you would find
  your job after graduation?
• Open

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• 3. What is job application online? Have you ever
  tried it?
• References
• Job application online means doing all the
  application on the internet. One can fill in the
  application form and send it in an email form to
  potential employers website, together with all
  necessary materials about oneself.

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Notes to the Text

• Click the following words to listen to the text.

Listen to the whole text.
Listen to paragraph 1.
Listen to paragraph 13.
Listen to paragraph 2.
Listen to paragraph 14.
Listen to paragraph 3.
Listen to paragraph 15.
Listen to paragraph 4.
Listen to paragraph 16.
Listen to paragraph 5.
Listen to paragraph 6.
Listen to paragraph 7.
Listen to paragraph 8.
Listen to paragraph 9.
Listen to paragraph 10.
Listen to paragraph 11.
Listen to paragraph 12.
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• Summary of the Text
• Since most students will choose to work
  after graduation, job-hunting is of great
  importance to them. They will write plenty of
  résumés about their education and send them to
  the companies they want to work for. It takes
  both time and energy to do so. Now, thanks to the
  development of the Internet, job-hunting becomes
  much easier. Job-hunters can find a job just by
  clicking a mouse on the computer.

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• Summary of the Text
• many of them make their dream come true through
  the Internet.
• This article describes the experiences of
  five people who used online sources to look for
  new jobs. Theresa Casebeer used the JOB-TRAK
  website to find an administrative assistant's job
  at a university. Steven Toole used the Career
  Builder website to find a marketing management
  position. Madeline Gragg used Yahoo! to find a
  job teaching English in Japan. Nedzad Dozlic
  used a

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• Summary of the Text
• newspaper website to find a driver's job with a
  car dealership. Wendy Mello used Career Builder
  to find a position in human resources for a
  media-information-services company. Mello also
  used another website to calculate the cost of
  living in her new location and decide what salary
  to request. All these are typical examples of
  online job searches, since many different types
  of jobs can now be found this way.

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• Understanding the Text
• 1. What is JOB-TRAK?
• It is an Internet website that lists as many as
  45,000 job opportunities.
• 2. How can you locate a potential job vacancy you
  are interested in online?
• You need to, first of all, punch in a few
  keywords and start the searching machine.
• 3. Does one need to have a lot of knowledge about
  the Internet before using it?
• Not necessarily so. According to Smith, the
  Internet was very easy to use. She found her job
  online with no training.

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• 4. How did Tools get the job as a marketing
  manager?
• He got the job because of his curiosity about
  the employment site named Career Builder.
• 5. Why did Gragg apply to teach English in Japan?
• Because she wanted a change in her life.
• 6.What is Dozlic's job now?
• He is now a driver at a local car dealership.
• 7. What preparations did Mello make before she
  went for her interview?
• She searched the Internet for information about
  the financial performance of the

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• company she was interested in, the salary she
  should ask for, and the possible living
  accommodations available to her there.

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• First Reading
• Go through the passage quickly and try to find
  answers to the following questions.
• 1. How many job hunters are mentioned in the
  passage? 2. What employment sites are mentioned
  in the passage?
• 3. Besides finding a job, what else can you do
  with the help of the internet?
• 4. What might be the topic sentence of the
  passage if you're required to find one?

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Reading for Detail
Reading for Detail
Name Former job Website New job Evaluation on internet job-hunting Purposely or accidentally
Therasa Simith
Steven Tools Not mentioned
Madeline Gragg
Nedzad Dozlic Not mentioned
Wendy Mello Not mentioned
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• Your Dream Job A Click Away
• Less than a month from graduation day,
  Theresa Smith of Northwestern University in
  Evanston, Illinois, had yet to find the right
  job. The career placement center referred the
  liberal-arts major to JOB-TRAK, an Internet site
  listing 45,000 entry-level positions. Smith
  selected four keywords Chicago, business,
  marketing and full-time. Immediately she found 45
  jobs meeting her criteria, including one as an
  assistant to an administrator at the University
  of Chicagos business school. Four weeks later she

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• was hired at a starting salary of
  32,000.
• I had no training, says Smith, but the
  Internet was extremely easy to use. Id never
  have known about this job without it. Smith
  is one American who clicked her way into a job.
  Steven Tools is another. In 1996, the
  Rockville, Md., resident came across an
  employment site named Career Builder. He had just
  been promoted to director of marketing for a
  company that produces tradeshow exhibits and
  wasnt looking for a job. But curious, he decided
  to give it a try.

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• Tools filled out a profile with the keywords
  marketing manager and entered his electronic-mail
  address. Within a week his computers mailbox was
  filling up with available positions. Two
  interviews later he jumped to a new job. The
  Internet is like hiring a personal assistant,
  says Tools. Effortlessly you can become aware of
  opportunities that may elevate your career.
  Even a couple of years ago, most job listings on
  the Internet were in high-tech fields. Today,
  non-technical jobs salesclerks, bank tellers,
  secretaries, for

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• example are the fastest growing
  segment of Internet employment opportunities.
  Most major newspapers and trade publications have
  online versions of their classified listings,
  enabling job-seekers to scan for work available
  across town, in another state, or around the
  world. Madeline Gragg and Nedzad Dozlic are
  still another two who clicked their luck online.
  In 1996, Madeline Gragg, a 28-year-old high
  school teacher from St. Louis, wanted a change.
  When a friend mentioned teaching English in
  Japan, Gragg was intrigued.

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• She visited the popular Yahoo! website and
  typed teaching English in Japan for a list of
  employment opportunities. She then followed the
  procedure for the online application. A week
  later she received a call and set up an interview
  with a recruiter in Chicago and got the job.
  ?Nedzad Dozlic, 27 years old, was scanning the
  Houston Chronicles Web site for the latest
  baseball trades. While online, he decided to
  check out the classifieds and spotted a job for a
  driver at a local car dealership. A refugee of
  the war in Bosnia, Dozlic had had a variety of
  jobs but was now ready for something new.

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• He read more about the position on the
• dealers Internet site and called the number
  listed. Two days later he was hired. Its really
  funny, he says, I was just checking sports, and
  I ended up with a better job. Another
  valuable use of the Internet is to research
  potential employers. When Wendy Mello started her
  job search in the summer of 1997, she logged on
  to Career Builder, where she learned of a human
  resources opening at Arbitrons, a
  media-information-services company in Columbia,
  Maryland. With a click of her mouse, Mello sent
  her résumé to the company via e-mail and soon

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• received an invitation for an interview.
  To find out more about the company, she clicked
  on to Artitrons home page and that of its parent
  company, Ceridian Corp., where she reviewed an
  annual report and the companys financial
  performance .
• Mello also wanted to know how much shed
  have to earn to maintain her present standard of
  living. Using an online salary calculator, she
  typed in her current salary, 34,000, and
  Baltimore (the nearest big city to Columbia).
  Within seconds her computer

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• flashed 44,000. Because of the salary
  calculator, I knew what to ask for, says Mello.
  By accessing an online real estate service,
  she saw color photos of rental properties,
  including detailed floor plans. When Mello
  arrived in Columbia, she felt completely
  prepared. The interview was a success, and the
  next day she was offered a job at a salary of
  47,800.
• The Internet is easy to use and it works,
  says one job seeker, What more could you want?
  

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Words and Expressions

• 1. career a job or profession for which one is
  trained and which one intends to follow
  for the whole of one's life

Examples

• There are many more careers open to
• women now than fifty years ago.
• Florence Nightingale made nursing her
• career.

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Words and Expressions

• 2. refer to send (someone or something) to (usu.
  someone else) for decision or action
• mention,speak about

Examples

• The Local Court has referred the whole
• case to the High Court.
• Don't refer to the matter again.

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Words and Expressions

• 3. resident a person who lives ( in a place)
  and is not just a visitor

Examples

• The local residents were angry at the lack
• of parking spaces.
• The residents of the town are proud of its
• new library.

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Words and Expressions

• 4. come across meet or discover, esp. by chance

Examples

• I have just come across a beautiful poem
• in this book.
• She came across some old letters in the
• course of her search.

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Words and Expressions

• 5. fill out/in put in (whatever is needed to
  complete something)

Examples

• After Tom passed his driving test he filled
• out an application for his driver's license.
• The policeman filled out a report of the
• accident.

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Words and Expressions

• 6. fill up make or become completely full

Examples

• The room soon filled up with people.
• The rain has filled up the ditches again.

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Words and Expressions

• 7. procedure an action or set of actions
  necessary for doing something

Examples

• Writing a check is quite a simple procedure.
• We have worked out a new set of
• procedures for using this machine.

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Words and Expressions

• 8. potential that can or may come into
  existence or action

Examples

• Although this area is very poor now, its
• potential wealth is great.
• We should always be on the lookout for
• potential dangers.

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Words and Expressions

• 9. financial connected with money

Examples

• In that case they would receive financial aid
• from the state.
• They are now confronted with a serious
• financial crisis.

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Words and Expressions

• 10. current of present time

Examples

• They suggested measures to overcome
• current difficulties.
• In some schools children study current
• affairs as a subject.

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Notes to the Text

• 1.The career placement center referred the
  liberal-arts major to JOB-TRAK, an Internet site
  listing 45,000 entry-level positions. (para. 1)

The career placement center advices the student
majoring in liberal arts to visit JOB-TRAK, a
website containing 45,000 jobs for new workers.
????????????????JOB-TRAK??,???????45,000?????????
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Notes to the Text

• 2. Smith is one American who clicked her way into
  a job. (para. 4)

Casebeer is one American who found a job online.
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Notes to the Text

• 3. "The Internet is like hiring a personal
  assistant," says Tools. "Effortlessly you can
  become aware of opportunities that may elevate
  your career." (para. 6)

The Internet is like a personal helper. It can
easily tell you about new chances to improve your
career.
?????,??????????, ????????????????????,????????
?????
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Notes to the Text

• 4. Most major newspapers and trade publications
  have on-line versions of their classified
  listings, enabling job-seekers to scan for work
  available across town, in another state, or
  around the world.(para. 7)

Most major newspapers and specialist journals
have their job advertisements online, to help
job-seekers quickly spot job vacancies anywhere
in the world.
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Notes to the Text

• 5. A refugee of the war in Bosnia, Dozlic had had
  a variety of jobs but was now ready for something
  new.(para. 11)

Dozlic, who escaped from the war in Bosnia, had
done several different jobs but was now ready to
find a new one.
??????????????,???????????,??????????
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Notes to the Text

• 6. To find out more about the company, she
  clicked on to Artitron's home page and that of
  its parent company, Ceridian Corp., where she
  reviewed an annual report and the company's
  financial performance. (para. 13)

To learn more about the company she entered its
website and the website of its headquarters, and
studied it's the company's yearly report and
financial situations.
????????????,?????Artitron???,???????Ceridian
Corp.???,?????????,???????????
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Related Information

• Northwestern University
• JobTrak.com
• CareerBuilder
• The State of Illinois
• Chicago
• The State of Maryland
• Japan
• Houston Chronicle.com
• Yahoo

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Northwestern University
http//www.nwu.edu
Northwestern University is a private,
coeducational institution with campuses in
Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. The school was
founded in 1851. It opened for instruction in
1855 with only ten students. Women were first
admitted in 1869. The university confers
bachelors, masters, doctoral, and professional
degrees in a wide range of fields.
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CareerBuilder
CareerBuilder is an online recruiting and
job awareness service. Job seekers are exposed to
more than 300,000 updated jobs, representing more
than 25,000 of the top employers in almost every
industry and field.
CareerBuilder makes it easy for employers to
reach the audiences they want and hire the talent
they need to get the most out of their return on
investment.
http//www.headhunter.net/
More than 6 million who visit CareerBuilder each
month. In addition, employers have access to more
than 4 million active resumes in CareerBuilder's
extensive resume database.
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JobTrak.com
JOBTRAK.COM is the largest and most popular
job listing service on the Web for college
students, MBAs and alumni. Through its
exclusive partnerships with career centers
nationwide, JOBTRAK.COM allows you to reach
job-seeking students and alumni from your choice
of more than 1,000 colleges and university career
centers, MBA programs, and alumni associations.
JOBTRAK.COM is utilized by more than 450,000
employers.
http//www.jobtrak.com/
http//static.jobtrak.com/job_search_tips2/
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Passage A
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the State of Illinois
the State of Illinois
Illinois is a state in the north central
United States, in the heart of the Midwest. It
was little more than a vast wilderness 200 years
ago. Since entering the Union on December 3,
1818, as the 21st state, the economy of Illinois
has expanded until today. Illinois is one of the
most productive agricultural and industrial
states in the Union, and its economic influence
now extends far beyond the Midwest.
http//www100.state.il.us/
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Chicago
Chicago
City skyline, Chicago
Chicago night view
http//www.ci.chi.il.us/
The city of Chicago is located in
northeastern Illinois, on the shore of Lake
Michigan and at the mouth of the Chicago River.
The presence of numerous waterways and one of the
nations busiest airports helps make Chicago a
major shipping and transportation center.
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the State of Maryland
the State of Maryland
http//www.mdarchives.state.md.us/
The Maryland colony was founded in 1634 and
was named for the wife of English King Charles I,
Queen Henrietta Maria. Colonial Maryland
attracted many settlers and, as its economy
prospered, so did its social, political, and
cultural life. Maryland entered the Union on
April 28, 1788, as the 7th of the original 13
states.
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Japan
http//www.japan-zone.com/

• Japan is an island nation in East Asia,
  located in the North Pacific Ocean off the coast
  of the Asian continent. It comprises the four
  main islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and
  Shikoku, in addition to numerous smaller islands.
  The Japanese call their country Nihon or Nippon,
  which means origin of the sun. The name arose
  from Japans position east of the great Chinese
  empires that held sway over Asia throughout most
  of its history. Japan is sometimes referred to in
  English as the land of the rising sun. Tokyo is
  the countrys capital and largest city.

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Houston Chronicle.com
http//www.chron.com/

• Houston Chronicle.com is an integrated
  website for daily information, including news,
  sports, entertainment, AD search, classified, etc.

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The Homepage of Yahoo
Drawing some 220 million visitors each month,
Yahoo! lays claim to the top spot among Internet
portals. Its Web site features a search engine
and directory that helps users navigate the Web.
It also aggregates content from a variety of
sources, including news, financial information,
and streaming media, and offers registered users
personalized Web pages, free e-mail, and
calendars. The company has localized Web sites in
25 countries.
http//www.yahoo.com/
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Thank You!