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Job and Work Vocabulary Guide

This document provides vocabulary related to work including terms for looking for a job, working, stopping work, salary/wage, unionizing, and different types of jobs. Key terms include applying for a job, getting work experience, being qualified or unqualified for a position, taking a new job, being promoted, working part-time or full-time, retiring from work, getting fired or laid off, joining a union, and having a well-paid or poorly-paid, temporary or permanent, indoor or outdoor job.

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Job and Work Vocabulary Guide

This document provides vocabulary related to work including terms for looking for a job, working, stopping work, salary/wage, unionizing, and different types of jobs. Key terms include applying for a job, getting work experience, being qualified or unqualified for a position, taking a new job, being promoted, working part-time or full-time, retiring from work, getting fired or laid off, joining a union, and having a well-paid or poorly-paid, temporary or permanent, indoor or outdoor job.

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VOCABULARY: WORK

LOOKING FOR A JOB

Apply for a job/position

Look for a job

Get a reference

Work experience

Vacant, vacancy

Command of a language/Be fluent in a language

Be qualified/underqualified/overqualified, qualifications

Be out of work

Unemployment/unemployed

Employee/employer

WORKING

Take up (a new job)

Make a living as…

Do something for a living

Work as (a teacher)

Work for (a company)

Be promoted/Move up the ladder

Be workaholic

Work hard, hard-working, heavy workload

Work part time, full time

Work 9 to 5

Work under pressure

Be on flexi-time

Be overpaid – underpaid

Colleague /coworker /teammate /workmate

Internship

Intern/trainee
Paperwork

STOP WORKING

Retire from work, retirement

Be fired/Be laid off

Be made redundant

Give up work/Hand in one's resignation

Be on/take sick leave

Take time off work

SALARY/WAGE

Make a lot of money out of something

Earn a good wage

Minimum wage

Live on (1000 euros)

UNIONIZING

Join a union

Go/Be on strike

JOB

Well paid job vs Badly paid job

Temporary job vs Permanent job

Part time job vs Full time job

WORK

Skilled work vs Unskilled work

Indoor work vs Outdoor work

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