These perks will ____ you to work with Google. The family live off his ____. Students are encouraged to seek help from ____. The hunters spent hours ____ their prey. She took ____ redundancy. Who knows what kind of ____ they’re going to run into. This rubber ball is very ____ and immediately springs back into shape. Do you get more money if you take voluntary ____? Typically, you'll receive more money if you take voluntary redundancy instead of compulsory redundancy. A company car and a mobile phone are some of the ____ that come with the job. I keep to a ____ schedule. We'll be interviewing four more ____ for the jobs this afternoon. WHY DON’T YOU GET A PROPER JOB? She wants to be a singer; you think she should go for a ____ career with job ____ and eventually retire with a good pension. But a new report suggests that in fact she’s the practical one. Why do parents make terrible careers advisers? Today’s 14 and 15-year-olds are ____. They are optimistic about their ____, but their career ideas are rather ____. Although 80% of them have no intention of following in their parents’ ____, 69% still ____ their parents for advice. They look at their working future in a different way to their parents. A job for life is not in their vocabulary; neither is a ____ but secure job that is boring but pays the bills. Almost half the boys ____ expected that their hobbies would lead them into the right sort of job, while most girls seemed ____ to avoid traditionally female careers such as nursing. In the past, this might have ____ as bad news. Certainly when I was 15, my guidance counsellors were horrified at my plans to become a writer. I’m glad I didn’t change my plans to ____ them. Even so, their ____ in rigid career paths was ____. In those days, that was the way to ____. But the world has changed. The global economy is not kind to yesterday’s ____ and dependable worker. The future belongs to quick-thinking people who are ____, ambitious and can take the ____. This means that a 14-year-old who sees her working future as a kind of adventure, to be ____ as she goes along is not necessarily being unrealistic. However, she has to have the training and ____ to help her develop the right skills for today’s market; not the ____ preparation for a workplace that disappeared twenty years ago. Many young people are very aware of the ____ of the flexible workplace; they understand that redundancy, ____ and freelancing are all part of modern working life, but no one is telling them how they might be able to turn the new rules of the employment game to their ____. This is what they need to know if they are to make a life for themselves. So what is to be done? A good first step would be to change the way in which schools prepare young people for adult life. The education system is becoming less flexible and more ____ with traditional skills at just the time that the ____ market is going in the opposite direction. Accurate, ____ information on new jobs and qualifications can help guidance counsellors to help their students. Young people need solid information on the sort of training they need to ____ of their dreams. Also, a little bit of ____ can go a long way. If nothing else, a bit of optimism from an adult can serve as an ____ to the constant criticism of teenagers in the press. What, then, can we as parents do to help them? The best thing is to forget all the advice that your parents gave you, and ____ into your teenager’s shoes. Once you’ve done that, it’s easier to see how important it is that they learn how to be independent, resourceful and ____. Give them the ____ to follow their dreams -however odd they might sound right now. In a world that offers economic security to almost no one, ____ is a terrible thing to waste.

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