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5.- Write about 100 to 150 words on the following topic. Explain the factors that might influence your career choice. (Puntuación máxima: 3 puntos). PRUEBA SELECTIVIDAD MADRID CONVOCATORIA JUN 2013-2014 INGLES. The Key to Choosing the Right Career When I graduated from college, I liked lots of things. But love? Passion? That would have been an exaggeration. Choosing a career path is usually a confusing and stressing experience. Many will tell you to “follow your passion” or “do what you love”, but this doesn’t seem very useful advice. We all want to choose a career that will make us happy, but how can we know what that will be? In fairness, how are you supposed to know if you will be happy as an investment banker or an artist or a professor, if you haven’t actually done any of these things yet? Who has ever, in the history of mankind, taken a job and had it turn out exactly as they imagined it would? So if passion and expected happiness can’t be your guides, what can be? Well, you can begin by choosing a career that fits well with your skills and values. Since you actually have some sense of what those are (hopefully), this is a good starting place. But a bit less obviously, you also want to choose an occupation that provides good motivation for you as well. There are two ways you can be motivated to reach your goals. Some of us tend to see our goals as opportunities for advancement, success and rewards. The rest of us see our goals as being about security - about not losing everything we’ve worked so hard for. So, if you are starting a new venture, make sure that you've got a healthy balance of promotion and prevention.

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5.- Write about 100 to 150 words on the following topic. Explain the factors that might influence your career choice. 

When the big decision of choosing the career I want to follow, things like the job market, university features and extracurricular skills I might learn can influence my choice. I want to be able to work in a creative, liberal and innovative environment, so I hope my options lean towards those kinds of workplaces. I want to be able to enjoy learning and attending the classes of whatever career I choose, as much as I want to be able to go to work every day and feel like I’m making a difference while enjoying my job, learning new skills and becoming a more valuable professional with the passing of time.  

PRUEBA SELECTIVIDAD MADRID CONVOCATORIA JUN 2013-2014 INGLÉS