Future career

1) What does work give us? Possibilities present x past – hat it changed?
2) Women x men, employers x employees
3) Workers union (odbory)
4) Unemployment
5) Applying for a job – what is important
6) Part-time, full-time job – advantage, disadvantage
7) My experience, working abroad – why attractive, pros and cons
8) My future career
   
At first I’m going to speak about the importance of work generally, about possibilities in the past and today, then about some problems with discrimination, about unemployment, applying for a job, types of jobs, working abroad and in conclusion about my own future career.
It is really important to have a job for many reasons. It is a part of socializing and making close friends, because you probably meet there people who have similar interests and attitudes /oistoj/ like you when they have been doing the same job as you. It is also important for your personality, because you’ve got feeling that you’re good in something, that they need you there and that you can handle /ovládat/ it and that you can do this. But the most important reason why to have a job is money of course. There is no other way how to survive /přežít/ in our society without job that ensures /zajistí/ us money, if your parents are not multimillionaires or if you’re not a robber and a thief /zloděj/ or something like that.
    I think there are a lot of job possibilities but sometimes it is still difficult to find a job, because to have a good job you need education. And to have a good education you need money in most cases. And anyway you can’t be sure that you will get the perfect job you have dreamed about. But still I think that there are many more possibilities than in the past, for example working abroad which wasn’t that easy in the past and some other things. 
There can appear /objevit se/ some problems with getting a job, especially when you’re a woman. In most cases when you’re married with children. The employer is scared of your absence because of you children and their possible illnesses or things like that. You can even have a problem with finding a job if you don’t have children, because in that case the employer can be scared of your possible longing /touha/ for getting pregnant /těhotná/. So it is more difficult to get a job if you’re a woman than if you’re a man in my opinion. There are also sometimes prejudices that men are better in some functions and for example technical issues so maybe when there is a woman and a man applying for a job, they can give a priority to a man because of these stereotypes.
    Unemployment is another problem in our society. It occurs /nastane/ when a person is available and willing /ochotný/ to work but currently /aktuálně/ without work. There are a lot of things that can cause unemployment, for example relief /podpora/ in unemployment, it increases voluntary unemployment. The next causes of unemployment can be imperfect employment market - imperfect information about job possibilities, non-effective salary (does nor motivate people), today’s financial crisis etc. Recently /nedávno/ the highest unemployment rate is in many African countries and in Mongolia, Ukraine and Norway.
    When you are applying for a job you have to do some specific things. You have to send your curriculum vitae (c. v.) and an accompanying letter (also called motivational letter). Later, you will probably need to go on interviews to meet with employers face to face. The form of c. v. you can find on the internet where everything important is written, like for example that it has to involve /obsahovat/ your contact information, education, experiences, special skills /schopnosti/ , references /doporučení/ and reasons that motivate you to do this job and things like this.
    You can apply for a part-time or for a full-time job. A part-time job is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job. Workers are considered to be part-time if they commonly work fewer than 30 or 35 hours per week. Full-time employment is employment in which the employee works the full number of hours defined by the employer. Full-time employment often comes with benefits that are not typically offered to part-time workers, such as annual leave, sick leave, and health insurance. Part-time jobs are beneficial mainly for students at universities. They don’t have to work a lot of hours and they don’t need to have really large income. Typical jobs are for example working at a fast-food restaurant, working as a clerk in a store, working as a bag boy at a supermarket etc.
    Recently working abroad has become very attractive. Working abroad is a fantastic way to discover /objevit/ a new culture, become independent and learns a lot of things like for example improve your language skills and these kinds of things. There are a lot of opportunities to travel and work overseas. There are many reasons why students and graduates choose to find a job in another country, for example for reasons I have already mentioned /zmíněný/. A well-known abroad job is for example a job of au-pair – a foreign national assistant who has responsibility for childcare and some housework as well. The negative of such a job is maybe that you are far away from your parents, friends and you are totally independent, you really have to take care of yourself. When you don’t have money, it’s YOU who has to figure it out /vyřešit/.