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Describe Your Dream Job: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

You should say

  • What job would it be?
  • What would you do in this job?
  • Explain why you think this would be the perfect job for you.
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Cue 1:What job would it be?

  • Clearly state the job you dream of having, mentioning the title and field.
  • Provide a brief background on why this job appeals to you.

Example

My dream job is to be a wildlife photographer. I have always been fascinated by nature and animals, and capturing their beauty through photography seems like the perfect way to combine my passion for wildlife with my love for art.

Cue 2:What would you do in this job?

  • Describe the main responsibilities and tasks you would undertake in this role.
  • Mention any specific skills or techniques you would use to excel in this job.

Example

In this job, I would travel to various national parks and wildlife reserves to photograph animals in their natural habitats. I would spend hours observing their behavior, waiting for the perfect moment to capture stunning images. Additionally, I would use my skills in photo editing to enhance the images and share them on social media and in exhibitions.

Cue 3:Explain why you think this would be the perfect job for you.

  • Discuss your personal qualities or experiences that make you suited for this job.
  • Explain how this job aligns with your values and long-term goals.

Example

I believe this would be the perfect job for me because I am patient, observant, and passionate about conservation. I want to raise awareness about endangered species through my photography. This job would allow me to contribute to wildlife preservation while doing something I love, which is incredibly fulfilling.

Conclusion

    Example

    In conclusion, being a wildlife photographer is my dream job because it combines my love for nature with my artistic skills. I am excited about the possibility of making a positive impact on wildlife conservation while pursuing my passion.

    Following this structure will ensure you cover all the essential points while providing a clear and engaging response to the cue card topic.

    Tips to answer this Cue Card

    1: Vague Job Descriptions

    Avoid being too general when describing your dream job. Specific details help the examiner understand your vision and passion for the role.

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    Tip

    Clearly outline the job title and key responsibilities to create a vivid picture of your dream job.

    2: Lack of Personal Connection

    Failing to explain why the job is perfect for you can make your answer less engaging. Personal connections make your response memorable.

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    Share personal experiences or values that align with the job to demonstrate why it matters to you.

    Ignoring Future Aspirations

    Not discussing future goals related to the job can make your answer seem incomplete. It’s important to show ambition and growth.

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    Mention how you plan to develop in this job or what you hope to achieve in the future to add depth to your response.

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    The toy which I liked in my childhood was a panda doll, which makes me pleasant and makes me more blush. The pandas are the most beautiful creatures of the world, which looks gigantic and has pooshy cheeks and they are like stars in the clouds and they dream in me. Furthermore, these have been given by my father. My father is a very very beautiful artistic person, who makes me think of that. Every day you will face every difficulties and make you suffer and move forward. Pandas are always seen in Japanese countries. It is my lifelong dream to visit a Japanese country and click a photo with the original pandas, which makes sounds better.
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    When I was a kid, I had a little pencil box which had these four buttons which gave the pencil box an operative use. When you press the button, the box would open up. When you press the second button, a little part of it would slide out. Basically it was just a little electronical and a fun thing to have and I owned it when I was in 6th. One day after break, I was standing and talking there with one of my friends and another friend of mine was running through the hallway and accidentally she pushed my shoulder and my pencil box hit the ground and it broke into multiple pieces to the point that it was not functional anymore.
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    It Ends With Us is a book I read recently. It's by the author Colleen Hoare. It's mainly a story about two teenagers, Atlas and Lily, and how they just handle their life going through high school, adolescence, and just domestic violence at home. Both of them come from very, very different families. However, they have one common determining factor between them, which is domestic violence. The abuse that they've seen their moms go through is just insane, and they connect through that on a different level. They're actually in the same high school, but they never speak to each other until Atlas actually crashes into an empty house next to Lily's villa. When Atlas is homeless and he doesn't have anywhere to go, he just comes and breaks into the house next to Lily's, and Lily helps him with all the daily necessities like clothes and food, medicines and stuff. Furthermore, their friendship blossoms into love, but it doesn't really fructify as Atlas has to leave. This book really gave me a lot of knowledge about domestic abuse and how to deal with it.

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    Band 6

    My dream job is to be an investment banker managing the portfolios of venture capital investors and the people who are billionaires and millionaires. I would like to do the job which is best suited for me as I'm very good with the numbers, I'm good with the analysis and research, and I take calculative risks, so I have required efforts to put in and work for long hours, which is the basic criteria to work as an investment banker. In investment banking, you probably have to operate the portfolios of rich people, you have to invest in the stock markets, forex markets, the gold bonds and everything, from which you could get a higher amount of returns. That's basically like funding which is provided to a firm which gives out profits to the people who have invested after a certain period of time.

    Band 6

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    Band 6

    My dream job is a teaching. Teaching is not a paying profession but if this is my passion, when your passion and profession are same, you can grow continuously, growth of mind is there and I am sure if I became a teacher in a future, I will change all old methodology of classroom environment. I know how to engage students in different types of the activities. I know how to complete the project. I know how to complete syllabus and how to get a good grade for different types of the students and furthermore, it's perfect for me according to my personality, according to my choice, according to my all the information with the need to be a good teacher that is inside my personality and I know how to take a load and I know how to roaming around in a classroom and the more detail, I know how to make lesson plan, how to engage the students, how to take a team work, how to divide the distribution of work and how to get a perfect result. That's why I decide to became a business teacher in a future and I will give the students practical example.

    Band 6

    To begin with, I would like to say I don't want to do one specific job, if still I have to choose, I would choose research analyst and you know consultant for a company. I love to develop insights from the data, I love to present the data in such a way that I can tell in which area the company is lacking and which area is growing, areas of improvement. I want to be that person who helps company in realizing the loopholes of their projects or whatever the plan they might be having for future sales or current sales. I chose this job because I always had an interest when it comes to solving puzzles and creating insights from data is kind of like solving puzzles, it makes you feel good and I am pretty enthusiastic about this field because I have worked as a data analyst before and I could not be happier and my experience with this field was pretty much good I would say and it has enhanced problem solving and critical thinking ability of mine to such extent that I believe if I even not do a job and start a business, this skill of mine would be very beneficial to any firm or my firm I would say.

    Band 6

    My dream job is the job which I am currently doing since my 2013. It's a very fascinating job and I love it. The job which I am currently doing is nursing and I am very happy to do this. It's a great opportunity. To make our career and to proceed well in our future planning and there is a lot of patient care and like this and we feel a great wellness and happiness while we are doing well with our patients. And the timing, the timing, I mean duty timings are like this. It's very difficult to arrange but I am currently satisfying in my job just despite of these difficulties or like that. In spite of this, I just love to do this in my own or with my colleagues and with my head nurses and with my doctors also. I love to enjoying all these because it's a very noble profession and we love to help the people who are in stress and who are in the difficulties and who have some of our health issues. Health issues and like other issues which are unable to manage at home and but we are unable to do on their home also but we can also provide them home care because we also have the home care nurses.

    Band 6

    I always knew that I was interested in learning about medical diseases and how to treat them. So unfortunately, when I passed my high school, I wasn't able to clear the exam for becoming a doctor. But I tried my way to nursing and then got admission in university for studying nursing. After completing my nursing course, I started working as a cardiac nurse. But back in my mind, I always had this thought that I want to be a cardiac surgeon, the one who performs open heart surgeries and all these things. And what's also odd that luckily when I joined Fortis Mohali, I got into the cardiac care unit. And so during that time period, I upgraded my skills a lot. But still I think that after some period of time, I'll give my try again for the exam just to get a seat in medical college. Because gaining that degree would be a bit economically hefty amount will be required for that. So I'll try to save my money and then go for it. Meanwhile, I'll just pave my way and try to upgrade my skills to be a better surgeon. But I have this thought that I'll give it a try again.

    Band 6

    To be honest, the best job or the dream job I want to do in the future is the job of the makeup artist. As I have studied one year course and took a diploma of that, I am certified makeup nail and hair artist and that is I think is a skilled work, if you are having that skill you can do great things in that job and I love creating pretty faces that enhances the beauty of the women or the men as well because I think I am into fashion and I love making people stand out through makeup and make them feel secured in their own skin tone and own skin type and I think whenever I do makeup of the women or like in the parties or in the weddings as well, they feel the most prettiest out there like they never feel that pretty in their whole life but I make sure that I don't change their skin tone or don't do any thing that is like not suitable to carry out there, so I think makeup artist job is my dream job and I would love, I will be becoming a makeup artist very soon, I have high own like professional makeup artist I want to be, so I think that is my dream job and I will be fulfilling that, that is my confidence and I think that is the best and perfect job which reflects me, so yeah, I think that will be the perfect job for me, so yeah.

    Band 5-6

    So, the cue card that I got for this speaking is to describe about my dream job and I would like to say that as a medical professional or as a future medical professional I would like to be a gardener or florist and I eagerly prefer this as to my dream job because I am very fond of plants and flowers and I do gardening a lot during my teenage period of time till now. So, as a florist or gardener I would like to arrange flowers, I would like to sell flowers and I would like to start a flower shop in my home town or wherever I reside. So I would like to start a flower shop or like a garden that sells flowers a lot and I would like to say that as a florist I would like to arrange flowers.

    Band 5-6

    This is starting with describing my dream job which I meant to and want to be in future that is a social responsibility worker. Why I find it quite pleasure doing it because I always like to help others. Whenever I born and I see someone in the streets I like to help them. I always think that why the God gives others a different life. But it's the life all about. Whenever I used to do the social responsibility that helps others and always make their future quite realistic. I want to help them and make their future bright in which they are facing problems. My dream job is a social responsibility worker in which currently I want to work with the NGO. Well, everybody is aware about the non-government organization in which the small children leave there with a poor amount of money and they are not that type of rich. Some do not have the helpers, some do not have the guardians and some are without the parents. So, I love them. I want to spend time with them. I want to help them. I want to pay the prices. I also want to help them and also know about them more. I want friends with them. After another social responsibility came of cleaning the place which I adore the most. That like we are cleaning the roads and everything means cleanliness is next to godliness as we are moving towards the court. So, it's all about.

    Band 5-6

    I used to be, became a app developer. Why? Because I used to develop the app and I used to create the app to use to the people and to easily access the process easily and they can use very easily and they might be not getting tough like app developing and they can easily gather the information that AI like artificial intelligence and to develop very lot of things and to get easily and manner and the public who are using my app it's too easy to maintain the very nice and keeping and going on and with the gathering the information never then easily they can get and related to the app and becoming very nice to use it and a lot of conversations between the public and the person who are using that app they should be like the app and why because job it should be perfect why because I have the what I'm like to be with is my dream job so I'm from the childhood I'm preparing to to get this job I should be I should be get this job why because I am suitable for this job I can know about the job role and job work from the childhood I was concentrating on constant using on the methods to know how to crack it the job and how to use it the job and how to do the work in the job I know that that's why I'm perfect to the job and secondary is what the work I have to work in the job I know the work of the process and that's why I can be say that I'm the perfect to the job I can be do the flexible night shifts and I can do the morning shifts also as soon as possible I can crack the job in the future and I will be there in the job with the present you know I will be to work as as soon as possible
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