Unit 2 Jobs and Careers课文翻译大学体验英语二

Unit 2 Jobs and Careers

Passage A 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

Chicago's

business

school.

Four

weeks

later

she

was

hired at a starting salary of $$32,000.

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

CareerBuilder. He had just been promoted to director of marketing for a company that

produces tradeshow exhibits and wasn't looking for a job. But curious, he decided to

it a try.

Tools

filled

out

a

profile

with

the

keywords

marketing

manager

and

entered

his

electronic-mail

address.

Within

a

week

his

computer's

mailbox

was

filling

up

with

available

positions.

Two

interviews

later

he

jumped

to

a

new

job.

Internet

is

like

hiring

a

personal

assistant,

says

Tools.

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

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.

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 Chronicle's 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. He read more about the position on

the dealer's Internet site and called the number listed. Two days later he was hired.

really funny,

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

CareerBuilder,

where

she

learned

of

a

human

resources

opening

at

Arbitron's,

a

media-information-services company in Columbia, Maryland. With a click of her mouse,

Mello sent her ré

sumé

to the company via e-mail and soon received an invitation for an

interview.

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.

Mello

also

wanted

to

know

how

much

she'd

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

flashed $$44,000.

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.

want?

PA

鼠标轻点，美梦成真

还有不到一个月就要毕业了，特里萨

·

史密斯还没找到合适的工作，她就读于位于伊利

诺州埃文斯顿 的西北大学。就业指导中心建议这位文科生去查查

JOB-TRAK

网站，该网站

上列出了

45,000

个初级水平的职位。