Work and Employment
Vocabulary file
Basic vocabulary
a job an occupation a profession a trade post, position be in work/ employed be out of work/ unemployed/ jobless vacancy, situation vacant employer, entrepreneur worker, employee workman, working man, labourer workmate, colleague be offered a job to employ/ take on/ hire a person to headhunt a person for a job to give smb a job to accept/ take on a job to turn down a job offer to find, get a job/ work (with a company) to work as a…(manager) to work for ( a company), in (factory, trade, an industry) to be in (an industry) to do a job/ work to take the post job satisfaction to gain experience to stay in a job to reach retirement to retire from to take early retirement be retired to resign from to hand in/ give in one’s resignation/ notice to lay off/ make redundant to downsize to make cutbaks to offer early retirement to dismiss/ fire/ sack/ give the sack/ terminate/ give the notice to outplace, redeploy to relieve smb. of one’s duties, position |
What do you do? What do you do for a living? What’s your occupation now? What line of work are you in? What does your job involve? high unemployment to look for a job to apply for a job to a company to make an application applicant a job/ vacancy advertised to fill in/ complete an application form to send in one’s CV/ resume a letter of application/ cover(ing) letter to short list applicants to attend an interview to go for an interview to have a reference from (a referee) to supply, furnish a reference to have (relevant) experience in the job to have the right qualifications for to leave/ quit a job to lose a job to join a union to belong to a union to be , go on strike redundancy dismissal, termination outplacement transfer (n,v) reinstatement in/ of employment to take over a company, department to work one’s way up/ move up / climb (the career ladder) recruitment, hiring (Am) a recruit, a hire(Am) recruitment / employment agency to seek a career in/ look to work in job title job description job/labor market to make a good (doctor, designer) vocation, calling |
Describing a job
full-time # part-time manual# clerical white#blue collar worker highly skilled – skilled – semi-skilled- unskilled well-paid # badly paid temporary #permanrnt seasonal rewarding 9 to 5 vocational monotonous mechanical repetitive, routine glamorous/ exciting challenging stressful demanding concentration, determination fulfilling hazardous demanding |
be stuck behind a desk low/ high stress levels dead-end job be stuck in a rut heavy # light workload great variety routine task paperwork be overworked be underpaid odd jobs indoors # outdoors steady job (in)security, stability to offer an opportunity for personal development satisfying stimulating dull, uninteresting, unstimulating, mind-numbing tiring, hard, strenuous, arduous |