1 . Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and phrases below.
| prospect remain relevant earn a decent salary innovator specialist occupation multiple times pace be qualified essential |
Things have changed so much since our parents’ and grandparents’ time, especially when it comes to jobs and careers. When our parents were starting to find work, the 1 of staying in the same 2 for your entire life was very common. Nowadays, that idea would be considered really unusual!
There will be new 3 21st century skills that we will have to have. For example, a university degree is still useful, but technology developments mean that many skills we have now are unlikely 4 in the future. 5 is one thing, but if we really want to succeed in our careers we have to be 6 thinking of new and exciting ways to do things. It won’t be enough to have only a general understanding of our area of work but we should keep learning until we become 7 . And given that people will not stay in the same career for long, we can expect that we will have to go back to education and training at some stage 8 to work in another field. In fact, we might have to do that 9 !
Jobs change at an amazing 10 these days, and if we can keep up, we can have really exciting and rewarding future careers.
