Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site’s “personal search agent.” It’s an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. “I struck gold,” says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company.(这一段主要以redmon这个人找工作进入CareerBuilder, a job database没找到,但是发现到了personal search agent.从而获取了工作信息找到了工作,注意是他自己投简历,
personal search agent只负责提供信息)
With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility,” says one expert.(personal search agent的优势与劣势)
For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept -- what you think you want to do -- then broaden it. “None of these programs do that,” says another expert. “There’s no career counseling implicit in all of this.” Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again. “I would not rely on agents for finding everything that is added to a database that might interest me,” says the author of a job-searching guide.(怎么高效利用,规避缺点)
Some sites design their agents to tempt job hunters to return. When CareerSite’s agent sends out messages to those who have signed up for its service, for example, it includes only three potential jobs -- those it considers the best matches. There may be more matches in the database; job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them -- and they do. “On the day after we send our messages, we see a sharp increase in our traffic,” says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for CareerSite.(职业网站怎么运作,让客户重新回到网站查找)
Even those who aren’t hunting for jobs may find search agents worthwhile. Some use them to keep a close watch on the demand for their line of work or gather information on compensation to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise. Although happily employed, Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder. “You always keep your eyes open,” he says. Working with a personal search agent means having another set of eyes looking out for you.
(职业网站代理人除了找工作以外其他的作用)
41.
How did Redmon find his job?
[A] By searching openings in a job database.
[B] By posting a matching position in a database.
[C] By using a special service of a database.(C)
[D] By E-mailing his resume to a database.
(这个不应该错,这个就是文章第一段说的,他是利用的数据库里面的职业信息代理人这个服务找到工作的。一般阅读里面有两到三个重要的相关词,咱们要把这几个词之间的关系理清楚,比如这篇文章就是DATABASE和personal search agent.理解清楚了就不会张冠李戴)
42.
Which of the following can be a disadvantage of search agents?
[A] Lack of counseling.(在drawback的下面一段里面说到了
[B] Limited number of visits.(这个是用网站访问量来误导,其实不关咱的事)
[C] Lower efficiency.(没有提到效率,主要是说这个每说一个词,咱们就减少了职业的可能性)
[D] Fewer successful matches.(这个和C一样,没有提到)
(a选项就是按照下面的专家的评价说的,这一题是这几个题里面需要多想一下的题目,但是结合上下文或者是用排除法都不会错,所以这个题的陷阱也不大)
43.
The expression “tip service” (Line 4, Paragraph 3) most probably means ________.
[A] advisory
[B] compensation
[C] interaction
[D] reminder
(根据这个在句子中的意思~~咱们不能依赖AGENT找工作,而是把它作为一个提醒的服务)
这个也不能错,没有什么歧义)
44.
Why does CareerSite’s agent offer each job hunter only three job options?
[A] To focus on better job matches.
[B] To attract more returning visits.
[C] To reserve space for more messages.
[D] To increase the rate of success.
(倒数第二段讲这种网站的运作,就是通过只发几个合适的职位给求职人,然后让他们回访网站,增加网站的访问量,这个读明白了也不应该错,其他选项都不是这个意思,没有干扰选项)
45.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
[A] Personal search agents are indispensable to job-hunters.
[B] Some sites keep E-mailing job seekers to trace their demands.
[C] Personal search agents are also helpful to those already employed.(C)
[D] Some agents stop sending information to people once they are employed.
(这个最后一段是意思,c是原意)
饭饭总结:这一篇咱们完全不应该有错的地方,主要要理解文章的主题的意思,就是对于职业信息网站的AGENT的优势和劣势的理解,以及对它的运用~
有问题的咱们可以在下面讨论哈哈~
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