PART ONE·Look at the statements below and the job description on the opposite page.·Which job (A, B, C, D or E) does each statement 1-8 refer to·For each statement 1-8, mark one letter (A, B, C, D or E) on your Answer Sheet.·You will need to use some of these letters more than once.A Senior Finance AnalystThis permanent role is within the Group Finance team and will be responsible for providing a high level of analysis of group operations and competitor activity and support on technical issues. The main areas of responsibility include analysis of business unit performance and projections, competitor analysis, cash flow forecasting, and review of presentations prepared for Group management. The role also includes group accounting and assistance with the preparation of key consolidated group reports for senior management.B General Counsel and DirectorThe International Monetary Fund, an international organization with a diverse staff from over 140 countries, has an opening for the position of General Counsel and Director of its Legal Department. The General Counsel provides advice 9n all legal matters relating to the Fund’s activities. The Director serves under the overall supervision of the Managing Director and in close collaboration with other members of the Fund’s top management team, and is responsible for providing strong intellectual leadership and strategic vision in planning, managing, and supervising the work and staff of the Department. In addition, the Director manages the distribution and delegation of assignments and the assessing, developing, and mining of the staff of the Department.C Senior Product Accountant for Leading Investment FirmThe D.E. Shaw Group is seeking a senior product accountant to support a sophisticated, and rapidly growing, suite of Wading strategies and assist in managing staff within its Finance and Operations Department. The role requires regular interaction with senior management and proprietary trading staff and involves a wide array of responsibilities primarily cantered on daily (e.g., wade settlement, swap resets, corporate actions) and monthly (e.g., preparation of portfolio balance sheets and income statements, profit-and- loss reconciliation and analysis, security price testing) accounting and operational duties in support of the firm’s investment activities in developed and emerging markets mound the world.D Business Analyst/Operation AnalystCompany’s Finance Organization is seeking an experienced multidisciplinary business professional in its Operations group. The Business Analyst/Operational Analyst will be responsible for analyzing cross-functional processes and issues, supporting process re-engineering initiatives and carrying out operational responsibilities to enable the Finance organization to scale with the growth of the business. The position reports directly to the Sr. Mgr. of R&D Finance Operations.E Senior Internal AuditorsWe are seeking three experienced Senior Internal Auditors who will conduct our audit programs and also will help at various levels in designing, implementing and managing the necessary policies and procedures for these functions. The Internal Audit department is responsible for interacting with the operating units, executive officers and external auditors. Other primary functions will include ensuring that adequate internal controls of policies and procedures are maintained for all Internal Audit aspects and related systems, and ensuring the integrity and timeliness of all reporting to the executive officers and external auditors. This position involves cooperation with senior executives and management of the staff.
American Karoshi (过劳死) Workaholics(工作狂)in America A thin, 40-something man with scattered white hair and wan(苍白的)complexion looked up from his notebook in a church basement on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. "Hi, I’m Emerson," he said, "and I’m addicted to work." "Hi, Emerson," answered his companions. Emerson is a lecturer at a major university in the New York area. In addition to his course load, he developed two new classes last semester, submitted a book-length manuscript for publication and served as executive director of a small not-for-profit corporation. "In my own eyes I’m a lazy sloth(懒惰的人)," he declared. He even agonized over coming to this evening’s Workaholics Anonymous meeting. He couldn’t shake the thought of running home to update his telephone list. "I just feel compelled to do this," he said. "It’s insanity." What makes workaholics of America Emerson is not alone. His condition is a product of the society that surrounds him. Joan Feldman of an investment firm in Tower 2 of the World Trade Center barely got out of the building after the first airliner crashed into Tower 1 on 11 September. While hurrying down the stairs from the 88th floor, she heard an announcement over the Center’s public-address system ordering employees back to work. "I would be dead," said Ms Feldman when asked what would have happened if she had obeyed. America’s obsession with work has reached epidemic proportions, according to Dr Bryan E. Robinson, family therapist and author of the 1998 book, Chained to the Desk (New York University Press). He believes that workaholism is a disease that kills people and ruins families. In New York, time is money, and since one’s worth is measured by ability to earn, overwork isn’t just a good idea, it’s the law of supply and demand. According to psychiatrist Dr Jay B. Rohrlich, in Hollywood where one’s appearance is paramount(至高无上的), the same problems might manifest themselves in anorexia(厌食症). But in New York, where working excessively to achieve success is the norm, people go overboard. "When your drive controls you, instead of you controlling it, it can be the sign of underlying problems," he points out. That equation is reinforced by new technologies which make workaholics of all of us. When Marilyn Machlowitz wrote Workaholics in 1980, things were very different. "We didn’t have faxes, cell phones, cell phones with e-mail, beepers, Palm Pilots. Workaholics used to be the people who would work anytime, anywhere. What has changed is that it has become the norm to be on call 24/7. Now that’s something that doesn’t cause anyone to blink. Globalization has really changed a lot of our work habits." People in the financial industry check in with London when they arrive for work in the morning and don’t stop until the Nikkei(日经指数)starts up at eight or nine in the evening. "The demand has increased to a point where it may be faster than people are hardwired(日经指数) to handle. And we haven’t seen all that high-tech has to offer yet, either." Twenty years ago we had enforced downtime, noted Ms Machlowitz: "If we had to send a draft of a document to someone, we had time before they received it in the mail, read it and mailed it back demanding changes. That time has collapsed to nothing. ’Right away’ has a new definition." A study on workaholics A study recently conducted by the health insurer Oxford Health Plans found that one in five Americans show up for work whether they’re ill, injured or have a medical appointment. This same obsession keeps one in five Americans from taking their vacation — a failure which has been found to put individuals at risk of early death. "Vacationitis (假日病)" may come from fear of returning to find someone else at your desk, or the idea that everything will collapse in your absence. Workaholics Anonymous(无名氏工作儿) meeting publishes a list of telltale signs including: working more than 40 hours a week; taking work with you to bed, on weekends and on vacation; talking about work more than any other subject; believing its’ okay to work long hours if you love what you do; thinking about working while driving, falling asleep or when others are talking. To New Yorkers, of course, these are simply the habits of successful people. The International Labor Office released findings that after passing the Japanese as the world’s most overworked population in the mid-1990s, Americans have pulled way ahead of the pack. Americans now work an average of 1, 979 hours a year, about three-and-a-half weeks more than the Japanese, six-and-a-half weeks more than the British and about twelve-and-a-half weeks more than their German counterparts. Patrick Cleary of the National Association of Manufacturers told the New York Times, "We don’t see this necessarily as bad news at all," pointing out that the increase in hours coincided with a strong economic performance. Companies often compensate for America’s chronic shortage of skilled laborers with demands of forced overtime. But while an inflated salary can dull the pains of overwork, excessive job stress can cause permanent degenerative(不断恶化的)damage to the heart. Workaholics deserve more attention In Japan, if a ,salary man" is found slumped over his keyboard in the morning, it triggers survivors to call for a Karoshi investigation to determine whether the death was caused by overwork. In New York the coroner(验尸官)would call the same condition heart failure. Cardiac disease (心脏病)is a complex malady affected by diet, activity, smoking, drinking and stress —and it occurs in epidemic proportions in the US. But coroners and judges refuse to entertain the notion that inordinate work stress can cause death. "If someone is working 14 hours a day, that person is not going to be eating right," said one physician at New York’s Beth Israel Medical Center, who asked that his name not be revealed. "They’re not going to have time for a nice home-cooked meal. That means fast food and increased cholesterol (胆固醇). Secondly, the time constraints will not permit them to exercise. And if the person is a workaholic, often they’re going to be a smoker or, if they’re really stressed out, a drinker." An explosion in karoshi cases accompanied Japan’s economic boom in the early 1980s. Since karoshi was legally recognized in the 1980s, 30,000 Japanese have been diagnosed as victims. The large number of work-related deaths spurred Tokyo to legislate a national pension system for surviving members of karoshi victims’ families. But Washington continues to fail to react to such stimuli. US courts give no money to damage claims by overworked Americans. The law seems to suggest that if everyone is overworked to the point of debilitation(虚弱), none therefore warrants compensation. This makes America’s Protestant work ethic a Puritan plague and affirms anthropologist Marshall Sahlins’s comment that the market system has handed down to human beings a sentence of "life at hard labor". From his appearance, we know that Emerson was exhausted by his work.