3. Praca dorywcza
Ćwiczenie 3.
Przeczytaj teksty. Wykorzystując zawarte w nich słownictwo, odpowiedz na pytania.
*rep - an official representative of a holiday company in a tourist spot, who takes care of holidaymakers (rezydent)
Pytania
1. Give examples of summer jobs which are most suitable for young people. Justify your choice.
2. Have you ever had a summer job? If yes, what did you do? If not, would you like to work in the summer? Why (not)?
Teenagers feel the squeeze
in fight to find a summer job
Teenagers hoping to earn a few author oiHow To Get a Job You 11 Lave.
pounds from a summer job - sorting "There were far fewer students and
mail, picking fruit, or working in the paths to work were very different,
a shop - are facing stiff competition Even in the 1980s, when there was
this year from impoverished students relatively high unemployment, there
and cheap foreign labour. was still high student casual
Last year there were more than two employment. I think a lot of
million students in higher education summer jobs have been absorbed over
and with tuition fees to pay - and the last 25 years by the increasing use
without the maintenance grant of temporary and short-term
enjoyed by previous generations - 90 contracts."
per cent took on paid work, Alexandra Jones, policy specialist at
according to the National Union of The Work Foundation, emphasised
Students. that "the changing world of work is as
In this market there are more job- much a factor as competition in the
seekers than jobs. There has been an market. Our research shows
increase in non-British citizens in the organisations are much better at
labour market. Ten years ago there implementing flexible work patterns
were 150,000 Australians working in they are better at spreading staff
Britain. Five years ago that figure - holidays and managing workloads
including South Africans - had risen around Christmas and during the
to 500,000. Other immigrant summer."
workers are showing a greater desire There may be fewer summer
than young people to take up jobs in vacancies for librarians,
cleaning or agriculture - and under chambermaids and ferry stewards,
worse conditions. but new jobs have taken their place -
The changing nature of recruitment agencies report that in
employment has helped put an end 2003 boom areas for casual
to 16 and 17-year-olds being able to employment were call centres and
walk into casual work. "Back in the retail, with manual "picking and
Seventies it was an awful lot easier to packing" jobs readily available.get holiday work," said John Lees,
1. What could be the advantages and drawbacks of the fact that young people seek temporary employment in the summer? Apart from earning their living, what do they gain or lose? Justify your opinion.
2. From the point of view of a young person seeking a summer job, what are the advantages and disadvantages of working abroad rather than in Poland? Justify your opinion.
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