If you were an employer, which kind of worker would you prefer to
hire: an inexperienced worker at a lower salary or an experienced worker at a higher
salary? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
☆Let’s think
1.
Paying less for an employee is
more preferable for an employer because he can cut costs. Is an experienced
worker worth the extra money?
2.
Is lack of experience just a
disadvantage?
☆Hints for Points
Reasons for hiring an inexperienced worker at a lower salary
1. Paying a lower salary will save you money.
2. It would be easier to train an inexperienced worker than an
experienced worker because he is more ready to accept the company culture while
an experienced worker often has difficulty in unlearning what he has already
acquired in his previous work places.
3. He would work harder because he wants to learn anything related to
his job.
4. Everyone is inexperienced at the beginning. Chances should be given
to the young.
Reasons for hiring an experienced worker at a higher salary
1. It lowers the risk of wasting the recruiting expenses.
2. An experienced employee is valuable as an asset. His skills,
knowledge, and the network of personal connections would be useful for your
company.
3. A worker with experience can help inexperienced workers lean their
job.
4. A well-seasoned worker can make fewer serious mistakes than an
inexperienced worker.
☆Essay for Ideas and Expressions
(Barron’s,
Writing for the TOEFL iBT, pp.
282-283)
☆Sample Body
Structures
Sample Body Structure A
1) about experienced workers
2) about inexperienced workers
3) my choice
Sample Body Structure B
1) good point of my choice 1
2) good point of my choice 2
3) why the bad point does not matter
Your
Sample Body Structure
【Point
1】
【Point
2】
【Point
3】
☆Speech Time
Make a one-minute speech on this topic.
☆Sample Paragraph Development
A 【Main Idea】A company cannot afford to pay a high
salary to a newly employed.
【Supporting Detail (general)】It has to pay a lot to employees who have been working for the
company.
【Supporting Detail (specific)】The employees a company already has are those that have contributed
to the company and thus the company has to reward them well.
【Follow-up】Damage by new workers can
be avoided through training and communication.
【Conclusion】It is
practical to hire the inexperienced at a lower salary and to invest in grooming
them to make them highly-paid workforce.
B 【Main Idea】An experienced
worker can start work on the day he is hired.
【Supporting Detail (general)】An experienced worker knows what to do.
【Supporting Detail (specific)】The person can do his job without asking
other workers many questions. He has business manners and general knowledge of
the industry. He can support his coworkers. On the other hand, it takes time for an inexperienced worker to be able to do the job.
He needs to be trained and will still need to learn on the job for a while be
full-fledged.
【Follow-up】Of course, each company has some culture that an
experienced worker has to learn, but it will
not take long to learn.
【Conclusion】Therefore, I would rather choose a
person who is ready to work.
C 【Main Idea】It lowers the
risk of wasting the recruiting expenses.
【Supporting Detail (general)】You would not know exactly how competent an inexperienced worker
will be no matter how careful you may be.
【Supporting Detail (specific)】He might be tardy or quit during the probation.
【Follow-up】It is true
that not all experienced workers are perfect, but most of them are survivors. The fact that they have been in the industry for a
long time shows that they have good work ethics, have no personality problems,
and can do the job well enough.
【Conclusion】It would be
safe to employ a person with work-experience.
Your Sample
Paragraph Development:
【Main Idea】
【Supporting Detail (general)】
【Supporting Detail (specific)】
【Follow-up】
【Conclusion】
Comments or
Suggestion from your partner or group members
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