Why You Should Delegate Tasks To Team Members & Choosing The Right Format For Your Cv — IELTS Reading Answers

“It also means informing them of any expectations you have, such as delivering it as a spreadsheet rather than a Word document”

The verb 'informing them of any' needs a plural noun; the text names 'expectations you have', such as file format.

“If you have concerns that someone doesn't have the skills to do a good job”

'If you have concerns that someone doesn't have the skills' supplies the plural noun concerns.

“Tell them how you expect to be kept informed, like through a report once a week”

The update method may be 'a report once a week', so the noun report fits.

“Equally, don't delegate tasks such as dull administrative ones, just because you don't want to do them”

You should not delegate 'dull administrative ones', so the adjective dull describes such tasks.

“delegate things that are regular, like noting whether weekly targets have been met”

Delegate regular things such as 'noting whether weekly targets have been met', giving the plural noun targets.

“Don't become the problem on your project that prevents progress just because you're afraid to leave people alone to get on with their jobs”

The warning is against being 'afraid to leave people alone', which means micromanaging rather than trusting staff.

“It provides flexibility because it works in almost all circumstances, the exception being if you have blocks of unemployment that are difficult to account for”

The chronological format 'provides flexibility' because it suits almost all circumstances, so flexibility fits.

“the exception being if you have blocks of unemployment that are difficult to account for”

The exception is 'blocks of unemployment that are difficult to account for', the noun unemployment.

“The functional CV format is typically used by people who have extensive gaps in their employment history, or have often changed jobs. It also suits those who want to go in a different direction work-wise and change industry.”

The functional CV suits people who want to 'go in a different direction work-wise', so direction fits.

“Because this format is often used to cover a patchy employment history, some interviewers may view such CVs with suspicion, so be very careful should you choose it”

Because it hides a patchy history, 'some interviewers may view such CVs with suspicion', the noun suspicion.

“This can help show your suitability for a role if you lack direct experience of it”

A functional CV shows 'your suitability for a role if you lack direct experience of it', so experience fits.

“With the explosion of digital and creative industries over recent years, CV formats have become more and more imaginative. You can present information through graphics, which can be more visually engaging and turn out to be an unusual but winning option”

You can present information 'through graphics', which are visually engaging, so graphics is the noun.

“However, a highly creative CV format is only really appropriate for creative and artistic sectors, such as those involving promoting products, though it would also work for the media too”

A creative format suits creative sectors and 'would also work for the media too', giving the noun media.