Ex.1. Read the text and do the assignments that follow

Зарубина В.К., Махрова О.Ф.

ЗАДАНИЯ ПО ПРАКТИКУМУ

ПО КУЛЬТУРЕ РЕЧЕВОГО ОБЩЕНИЯ

«ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТРУДОУСТРОЙСТВА МОЛОДЕЖИ»

(для студентов III курса)

Москва 2006

Unit I

NEGOTIATING THE JOB MARKET

Ex.1. Read the text and do the assignments that follow.

As a major industrial country Britain has a labour force with high levels of technical and commercial skill. However, in common with other industrial countries, it has suffered in recent years from high levels of unemployment.

The Government's employment strategy is to maintain an economic, financial and industrial climate in which businesses can operate successfully and create jobs. It is taking action to improve the labour market by encouraging better training, removing regulatory barriers which hinder recruitment by firms, and providing an extensive range of employment and training measures for those most affected by unemployment (particularly the long-term unemployed and the young) to help them into productive work.

Advice on manpower policy issues is provided by the Manpower Service Commission. It is a body in which employers, trade unions, local authorities and educational interests are represented. Most of its activities are financed from public funds. The main public employment services arе provided in Great Britain by the MSC which offers a comprehensive service for employers needing staff and for people seeking jobs.

Local education authorities provide a careers service, i.e. vocational guidance for people attending all educational institutions, except universities, which have their own careers service, and an employment service for those leaving them. Authorities may also provide an employment service for other people in their early post-school years.

A large number of 16 and 17 year-olds enter Youth Training programmes established by the Government as a means of helping young people to gain vocational experience through training. The Government guarantees a place on the scheme to everybody under 18 who is not in full-time education or in work. Youth Training programmes cover a wide range of vocational skills from hairdressing to engineering, and a large percentage of trainees are able to find work once they have completed a Youth Training course.

Professional and Executive Recruitment is a specialist branch of the MSC which helps employers looking for professional, managerial, scientific or technical staff and assists people seeking employment at this level. It operates nationally, through a network of offices. It offers a comprehensive recruitment service based on a weekly jobs newspaper.

Another option is to become self-employed. This requires a product or service which has a clear market, as well as good advice and motivation. It is not easy, as is testified by the high proportion of business start-ups which fail during their first year. However, a number of organisations offer grants as well as start-up advice. For example, The Prince's Youth Business Trust (a sister of The Prince's Trust organisation) helps unemployed and disadvantaged 18 to 29 year-olds set up viable businesses and provides grants and loans to both individuals and groups. Free advice is offered by the network of Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs), co-ordinate through the Department of Trade and Industry and run by professional advisers and business people. Also the Business Enterprise Programme provides training in skills needed to run small businesses.