English listening practice - Improve your listening skills with this exercise based on a British news report about looking for a job. This video will help you practice your listening skills in preparation for your IELTS or TOEFL tests. 0:26 Lesson plan 1:54 English Vocabulary needed for the lesson (survey, CV, jobseekers, employer, employee, to apply) 8:14 Listening questions: 1) What was the second example of problems reported by employers? 2) What is the main reason for these mistakes, according to Joe Billington? 3) How much time do career advisers believe jobseekers should spend working on their CV? 4) What was the third piece of advice given by the National Careers Service? 10:21 Listen to the report. 12:51 Answers to the questions 16:34 Listen to the report with subtitles (transcript) 18:36 Discussion about common mistakes made by job applicants. Private English lessons & speaking practice: http://goo.gl/j7w5N6 Other videos: Grammar lessons:    • learn English grammar   Countable and uncountable nouns:    • Countable and uncountable nouns   Listening exercises:    • English listening practice   Vocabulary videos:    • learn English vocabulary   Andrew, Crown Academy of English http://www.crownacademyenglish.com/ http://twitter.com/Crown_English null Photo credits: All photographs are royalty-free: "Smiling Pretty Woman Eavesdropping" - Image courtesy of stockimages / FreeDigitalPhotos.net "Woman Hearing Something" - Image courtesy of Ohmega1982 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net "Manager Smilingly Looking At Business Reports" - Image courtesy of stockimages / FreeDigitalPhotos.net "Communication" - Image courtesy of jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net