Looking for a job: Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Look for a job, seek (for) employment

Apply for a job, applicant (candidate), a letter of application

Job centre

Look through newspaper job ads (advertisements)

Job interview, to interview, interviewer, interviewee

To select, selection, selective

To train, training, trainer, trainee

To recruit, recruitment committee

To suit, suitable, suitability for the particular job

Working conditions: pay, hours of work, pension scheme, travel expenses, benefits, insurance, bonus

To be promoted, to get promotion, promotion opportunities/prospects, climb a career ladder

To employ: (un)employment, employer, employee, (un)employed, equal opportunities employer

Sign a contract

Job requirements, to require, satisfy requirements

Skills: a) communication, computer, negotiating, language, analytical, basic, survival;

b) to possess, acquire, require, lack, develop, improve, master, demonstrate, apply;

c) skills shortage, with great skill, skill in /at

d) skillful, skilled, skillfully

Experience: to have, gain, get, broaden, lack; (in)experienced; a lack of experience, work experience, in smb’s experience

To qualify for the job/position, qualifications, (un)qualified

Pay: salary, wages, bonus, tips