How important is job security to people today?
A strong Part 3 answer takes a position in the first clause, supports it with one reason and one concrete case, and then names where it stops being true. Around a minute.
The question, as the examiner gives it
How important is job security to people today?
no preparation, about 1 minute to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 134 words at a natural pace — roughly what 60 seconds holds.
Answer it yourself first
Record your own answer first. A model you have read three times comes out with a flattened rhythm, and examiners are trained to hear exactly that. Read it afterwards for the vocabulary and the shape, not to memorise the sentences.Extremely, though people describe it differently depending on how much of it they have. Somebody with a secure job will tell you that flexibility matters more, and I think they believe it, because the value of security is invisible until it is absent. The people I know without it organise their whole lives around uncertainty. They do not take holidays, they do not commit to anything with a monthly cost, and that is a real reduction in quality of life that no pay rise compensates for. What has changed is that security used to come from the employer and now, where it exists at all, it comes from your own savings and how easily you could get another job. That is a considerable transfer of risk, and it happened without anybody agreeing to it.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- flexibility
five syllables with the stress on the third
- invisible
four syllables with the stress on the second
- uncertainty
four syllables with the stress on the second
- compensates
three syllables with the stress on the first
- savings
concrete noun naming the modern source of security
- transfer
the noun, stressed on the first syllable
- reduction
three syllables with the stress on the second
How a strong answer is built
- 1Answer and note that reports of it differ.
- 2Explain why people who have it undervalue it.
- 3Describe what its absence actually does.
- 4Name the structural change and who bears it.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “How important is job security to people today?” be?
About 60 seconds. Long enough for the answer plus a reason or an example, short enough that the examiner can get through the rest of the set.
Should I memorise the model answer?
No. Record your own version first, then read the model for the shape and the vocabulary. A memorised answer changes rhythm and pace noticeably, and examiners are trained to hear it — it usually costs more than the better wording gains.
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