Чтение и письмо: требования к роли и обращение (глагольные сочетания карьеры)
Слова урока · 4
- person specification /ˌpɜːsn ˌspesɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/требования к кандидату
- essential /ɪˈsenʃl/обязательный (критерий)
- demonstrate /ˈdemənstreɪt/показать на примере, продемонстрировать
- covering letter /ˌkʌvərɪŋ ˈletə/сопроводительное письмо
Фразы урока · 2
- Read the person specification carefully: three criteria are essential, two desirable.Внимательно прочитайте требования к кандидату: три критерия обязательны, два желательны.
- Demonstrate each criterion with an example, and keep the covering letter to one page.Покажите каждый критерий примером и уложите сопроводительное письмо в одну страницу.
Текст: «Вакансия: руководитель программы наставничества»
Salary £38,000–£42,000 · Full time, 2 days remote · Closing date 14 March
The role
The Trust runs a mentoring scheme that matches 200 young people a year with volunteer mentors from local businesses. Over the past two years the scheme has grown faster than its systems: matching still takes up to eight weeks, a quarter of matches end within three months, and the two coordinators are stretched. The Programme Manager will take on the scheme as a whole, with a brief to halve the matching time and the early drop-out rate within eighteen months, and to hand over a documented process that does not depend on any one person.
Person specification
Essential
1. A track record of managing a service or project with measurable outcomes — we will ask you to quantify them.
2. Experience of taking on a process that was not working and following through on changes to it.
3. Line management of at least two staff, including delegating and holding people accountable.
Desirable
4. Experience of working with volunteers.
5. Knowledge of safeguarding practice in youth services.
How to apply
Send a CV and a covering letter of no more than 500 words. In the letter, demonstrate each essential criterion with a specific example: what the situation was, what you did, and what changed as a result. Candidates who describe responsibilities without results will not be shortlisted. We are less interested in why you want the job than in what you have already done that resembles it.
A note on honesty
We would rather read about a change that partly worked, and what you learned, than a success with no numbers. If you were not the only person responsible for a result, say so.
Задание
Напишите сопроводительное письмо (covering letter, 230–270 слов) на эту вакансию от лица кандидата с подходящим опытом (можно вымышленным): обращение и предмет письма; по одному доказательному примеру на каждый из трёх обязательных критериев (STAR: when I joined / my brief was to / I … / as a result, which led to, the upshot; цифры — quantify); честная доля в результате (I can't take credit for …; it partly worked; the lesson learned); план из прошлого или ожидание и результат, где уместно (was supposed to; only to find; in the event); ответственность (took on, followed through on, delegated, held accountable); официальный регистр, без объяснений «почему я хочу эту работу».
Образец ответа
Dear Ms Okafor,
Re: Programme Manager, Mentoring Scheme
I am writing to apply for the post advertised on 20 February. I set out below one example for each essential criterion.
1. Measurable outcomes. When I joined Riverside Youth Service in 2022, our homework club was reaching 40 young people a term and losing a third of them by half-term. My brief was to double attendance without extra staff. I moved sessions from Friday to Tuesday after surveying the families, and introduced a text reminder the evening before. As a result, attendance rose to 95 a term and the half-term loss fell to 12 %; the upshot was a second year of funding. I can't take credit for the reminder system itself, which our administrator built, but I followed through on the change when the first month showed no effect.
2. A process that was not working. In 2023 I took on the volunteer induction, which was supposed to take two weeks and in practice took six, because checks were done twice. I mapped the steps, merged the two checks with the safeguarding lead's agreement and wrote a one-page guide. Induction now takes 15 days. It only partly worked: volunteers still drop out before their first session, and the lesson learned is that induction is not the same as commitment.
3. Line management. I have managed two coordinators since 2023. I delegated the family contact entirely to them, set monthly targets we agreed together, and held them accountable through a fortnightly review — which, in the event, they asked to keep when I offered to drop it.
I would welcome the chance to discuss how this experience transfers to your scheme.
Yours sincerely,
Daniel Hughes
lightbulbСопроводительное письмо по критериям: Re: → по примеру на критерий (STAR, цифры) → честная доля (can't take credit for, partly worked, lesson learned) → was supposed to … in practice → took on, followed through, delegated, held accountable.
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