Section C
Compound Dictation
Corporations as a group offer a variety of jobs. Most large companies send people to colleges to (36) ______ graduating students with the (37) ______ academic training. A large university may have more than 500 companies a year knocking on its doors. Big firms are your best (38) ______ for a job because their normal growth, employee (39) ______ , and turnover create thousands of job (40) ______ nationwide each year.
Corporations, however, (41) ______ the rule that the biggest isn't always the best. Many small firms with a few hundred employees have positions that may (42) ______ with your professional goals, too. Such firms may not have the time, money, or need to send people around to your college; you will probably have to (43) ______ them yourself either directly or through an employment agency. Don't ignore these little companies. (44) _____________________________________________________________ . You could become a big fish in a pond, reaching a high-level position more quickly than you would (45) _____________________________________________________ .
For example, a small company may need a bright engineering, accounting or management graduate who report directly to the senior vice-president of engineering, the company controller, or the general manager. (46) ___________________________________________________________________ . In addition, responsibilities may come faster in a small firm with less specialization and fewer lower-level employees to receive delegated authority.
