Jobs and professions vocabulary

JOBS AND PROFESSIONS

1.1 Job / professions words – VOCABULARY PRACTICE

Match the following words with their definitions.

applicant – be in charge of – boss – CV – day off – deadline – fire (v) – get a pay rise –

maternity leave – occupation – pensioner – retire – sick leave – staff – teamwork –

temporary job – unemployed – work overtime

a) a day when you do not work

b) time before and after the birth of a baby when a woman is allowed to be away from her job

c) to get an increase in your salary

d) to work (much) longer than usually

e) someone who is officially old enough to stop working

f) work that you do together with other people

g) the person who is in charge of you at work

h) a job that you do for only a limited period of time

i) to stop working, especially when you reach the age when you are officially too old to work

j) a document giving details of your qualifications and the jobs you have had in the past

that you send to someone when you are applying for a job

k) another word for ‘a job’ (used especially on forms and in formal writing)

l) someone who applies for a job

m) without a job

n) a specific time or date by which you have to do something

o) the people who work for a particular company, organization, or institution

p) a period of time during which you do not work because you are ill

q) to have control over someone or something and be responssible for them

r) an informal way of ‘make (sb) redundant’