JOBS, CAREER

• What is the right job for you? What would you like to do and why?

I think that the right job for me is that job which I like and which I enjoy. I would like to word somewhere, where I can talk with people. I have to be interested in my job.

I would like to be a teacher at basic school because I like teaching somebody. I have already taught my friends. For example, I was teaching mathematics the one of them. He said me that he did school leaving exam because of me! It was wonderful feel. Exactly this feel is the main reason why I want to teach. And teachers also have long holidays!

• What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?

In my opinion, I am quite talkative and it is good for a fob where I have to talk with people.

My strengths absolutely are fast learning, respect to authority, doing things on time, ability to improvise and I am ambitious.

On the other hand, I am sometimes quite lazy and I am a little bit untidy.

 

• How would you describe yourself in three words?

Smart, ambitious, original.

I think that I am smart because I had distinction almost whole basic school. I don´t have to learn a vocabulary to English for a long time, I learn them quite fast.

I am very ambitious because I never give something up. When I start doing something, I finish it. Why start doing something if I give it up five minutes after start? It doesn´t have a sense.

And in the end, I am original because I am not wondering if clothes, which I wear, are in or out. I don´t control myself according to fashion. I do what I want and I don´t do what others do.

 

• If you were an animal, which one would you want to be?

It is hard to say. Monkey is clever. Cat is independent and it likes freedom. Lion is proud and strong.

But I would prefer to be a dog. Dog is very clever too. It is the best friend of a human. It is faithful to his friend. It can learn some gimmick very quickly. It respects the authority.

 

• Things that motivate people at work.

There are a lot of things which motivate people at whatever. It depends on their own values, interests and hobbies.

Money can motivate people very well. Everybody needs money to pay a lot of things, for example food.

Another way how to motivate people is friendly atmosphere at work. Some people need to word among other people. Maybe they don´t like to be whole day in the office with computer, they need society.

People like doing something what make a sense. Nobody wants to do something whole day to listen in the end of that day that you did it needlessly.

Somebody enjoy doing something for other people. Just for a pleasure. These people usually don´t care how much they earn.

Everybody wants to do something what they are good in or what they like to do. And of course, this motivation depends on their abilities and hobbies.

If somebody like piano and he can play the piano and he wants to improve in this ability, he would be a great musician. If somebody is good at languages, he can translate books or he can be a guide.

 

• How do people find a job?

People can find a job on the internet or in newspapers. They also can ask their friend if he knows about some vacancy.

Then people send an application letter and curriculum vitae to employer. They also can send him a covering letter. IF the employer is interested, he will invite you to a job interview.

 

• How to write your CV?

You have to write there your name, surname, date and place of your birth, your address, sex, citizen ship, schools which you have studied (high schools and universities), experiences, previous jobs, special training courses, your hobbies, abilities, qualities, summer jobs, voluntary works and other curiosities. And you shouldn´t lie!

 

• What is an application letter and the covering letter?

Application letter is an application for a job. People send it to employer when they are looking for a job.

Covering letter is a letter which people send to employer if he wants to know more about them.

In application letter is written where you found vacancy (newspapers, internet and e.c.) and why you want that job.

In covering letter is written why you are the right one for that job. You should write there your abilities, strengths and experiences.

 

• How to prepare for a job interview?

You should find out something about the company where you go to job interview or about the employer. Prepare some questions about things which interest you: If you have to travel to foreign countries. If you have to commute to work. If you have to work at weekends or work overtime.

You should be calm, kind, polite, confident. Not to be nervous. And you shouldn´t lie.

 

• What are the standard working conditions in the Czech Republic?

In the Czech Republic, people can work when they are eighteen years old or more. But they can have a summer job when they are fifteen years old.

Usual work time spends from eight to sixteen hours per day; it depends on kind of work. F.e. my mum works sixteen hours.

Employer should stick to safety standards.