English: End-of-module assessment
Unit 3 : recruitment and selection
Recruitment: the process of finding people for particular jobs American English : Hiring
Someone who had been recruited is a recruit American English : a hire
The company employs or hires them and they join the company
A company may recruit employees directly or use outside recruiters, recruitment agencies or
employment agencies.
HeadHUNTERS = outside specialists may be used to find people for very important jobs and to
persuade them to leave the organization they already work for.
HeadHUNTED = Key people who are recruited like this in a process of headhunting.
Situation vacant = pages in a local newspaper where company’s advertise for a new position.
You can apply for a job by completing an application form and sending it in.
‘Harry is a building engineer. He looked at jobs with different engineering companies on a jobs
website. He made an application, sending in his CV(curriculum vitae, a document describing
your education, qualifications and precious jobs) and a covering letter explaining why he wanted
the job.
CV American English = Résumé or resume
Covering letter American English = Cover letter
Selection process = the methods that the company uses to recruit people
They look at the backgrounds of applicants, their experience or different jobs and they
educational qualifications.
They invite the most interesting candidates to a group discussion. Then they have individual
interviews with the candidates. The candidates are also given a psychometric test to assess
their intelligence and personality.
After this, they shortlist 3 or 4 candidates and they check their references by writing to their
referees – previous employers, teachers, and so on that the candidates have named in their
applications.
Finally they offer the job to someone, and if they turn it down they have to think again.
(some applicants may get other job offers at the same time as theirs).
If they accept it, thet hire them. They appoint someone only if they find the right person
Appoint = iemand aanstellen
Voorbeeld : the selection procedure has lasted 3 months, but we’re going to appoint someone next
week.
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,Unit 4 : skills and qualifications
Graduates : people who’ve just left university. their paper qualifications are good.
they have qualifications in interesting subjects, but they have no work experience.
Education should teach people how to thinks, not train them for a particular job.
You can graduate from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and do very well.
For some companies, its more useful to do training in a practical subject: it’s better for them
if you train as a scientist, and qualify as a biologist or a doctor, for example.
In-house-training = courses within the company.
Management development = where managers regularly go on specializes courses in
leadership, finance,..
You need to acquire experience = get knowledge through doing things.
Master’s degree = a qualification you can get after 1 or 2 years of graduate study
Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) = a master’s degree in advanced business
studies.
A Skill = a particular ability to do something well, especially because you have learned and
practiced it.
Jobs and people who do them, can be described as;
o Highly skilled (car designer)
o Skilled (car production manager)
o Semi- skilled (taxi driver)
o Unskilled (car cleaner)
you can say that someone is skilled at or skilled in/ or good with (computers, figures,
people,..)
Words who are often used in job advertisements. Companies look for people who are:
Methodical, systematic & organized – working in a planned, orderly way
Computer-literate – good with computers
Numerate – good with numbers
Motivated – very keen to do well in their job because they find it interesting.
Talented – very good at what they do
Self-starters – they must be proactive, self-motivated or self-driven – good at working on
their own.
Team players – people wo work well with other people
Voorbeelden
You graduate from a University with a degree in politics.
He decided to train as an accountant at evening classes.
He went on a number of management courses to get training in team-building and other
skills.
Proactive : able to work on your own initiative.
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, Unit 5 : pay and benefits
As an employee, you get paid a salary every month
When it’s very busy, you sometimes do overtime (work a lot of extra hours).
Perks : voordelen
Sometimes you don’t earn very much. you get paid in wages every week by a restaurant.
Minimum wage = the lowest amount allowed by law.
Tips = money that customers leave in addition to the bill.
Working conditions can be good: you can have a nice office and don’t have to travel much.
Basic salary plus commission = a percentage on everything you sell
Bonus = if you sell more than a particular amount in a year.
Fringe benefits = company car
There is a health plan to pay the costs of medical treatment if you get ill.
Pension = money that you get regularly after you stop working.
** Benefits package
Pay and conditions remuneration and compensation are formal words used to talk about
pay and conditions, especially those of senior managers.
Remuneration package and compensation package are used especially in the US to talk
about all the pay and benefits that employees receive.
Share options = Stock options benefits for a senior executive the right to buy the
company’s shares at low prices.
Performance (-related) bonuses = if the manager reaches particular objectives for the
company.
Compensation #2 = also used to talk about money and other benefits that someone receives
if they are forced to leave the organization, perhaps after a disagreement with other
managers in what newspapers call a boardroom row. This money is in the form of a
compensation payment or severance payment.
Compensation package or severance package = if someone also receives benefits with the
compensation/severance payment.
Fat cats = executives with very high pay and benefits, implying they do not deserve this level
of remuneration. (in Britain)
Unit 6 : People and workplaces
Management
White-collar workers
Labour
Manual/Blue-collar workers
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Unit 3 : recruitment and selection
Recruitment: the process of finding people for particular jobs American English : Hiring
Someone who had been recruited is a recruit American English : a hire
The company employs or hires them and they join the company
A company may recruit employees directly or use outside recruiters, recruitment agencies or
employment agencies.
HeadHUNTERS = outside specialists may be used to find people for very important jobs and to
persuade them to leave the organization they already work for.
HeadHUNTED = Key people who are recruited like this in a process of headhunting.
Situation vacant = pages in a local newspaper where company’s advertise for a new position.
You can apply for a job by completing an application form and sending it in.
‘Harry is a building engineer. He looked at jobs with different engineering companies on a jobs
website. He made an application, sending in his CV(curriculum vitae, a document describing
your education, qualifications and precious jobs) and a covering letter explaining why he wanted
the job.
CV American English = Résumé or resume
Covering letter American English = Cover letter
Selection process = the methods that the company uses to recruit people
They look at the backgrounds of applicants, their experience or different jobs and they
educational qualifications.
They invite the most interesting candidates to a group discussion. Then they have individual
interviews with the candidates. The candidates are also given a psychometric test to assess
their intelligence and personality.
After this, they shortlist 3 or 4 candidates and they check their references by writing to their
referees – previous employers, teachers, and so on that the candidates have named in their
applications.
Finally they offer the job to someone, and if they turn it down they have to think again.
(some applicants may get other job offers at the same time as theirs).
If they accept it, thet hire them. They appoint someone only if they find the right person
Appoint = iemand aanstellen
Voorbeeld : the selection procedure has lasted 3 months, but we’re going to appoint someone next
week.
1
,Unit 4 : skills and qualifications
Graduates : people who’ve just left university. their paper qualifications are good.
they have qualifications in interesting subjects, but they have no work experience.
Education should teach people how to thinks, not train them for a particular job.
You can graduate from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and do very well.
For some companies, its more useful to do training in a practical subject: it’s better for them
if you train as a scientist, and qualify as a biologist or a doctor, for example.
In-house-training = courses within the company.
Management development = where managers regularly go on specializes courses in
leadership, finance,..
You need to acquire experience = get knowledge through doing things.
Master’s degree = a qualification you can get after 1 or 2 years of graduate study
Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) = a master’s degree in advanced business
studies.
A Skill = a particular ability to do something well, especially because you have learned and
practiced it.
Jobs and people who do them, can be described as;
o Highly skilled (car designer)
o Skilled (car production manager)
o Semi- skilled (taxi driver)
o Unskilled (car cleaner)
you can say that someone is skilled at or skilled in/ or good with (computers, figures,
people,..)
Words who are often used in job advertisements. Companies look for people who are:
Methodical, systematic & organized – working in a planned, orderly way
Computer-literate – good with computers
Numerate – good with numbers
Motivated – very keen to do well in their job because they find it interesting.
Talented – very good at what they do
Self-starters – they must be proactive, self-motivated or self-driven – good at working on
their own.
Team players – people wo work well with other people
Voorbeelden
You graduate from a University with a degree in politics.
He decided to train as an accountant at evening classes.
He went on a number of management courses to get training in team-building and other
skills.
Proactive : able to work on your own initiative.
2
, Unit 5 : pay and benefits
As an employee, you get paid a salary every month
When it’s very busy, you sometimes do overtime (work a lot of extra hours).
Perks : voordelen
Sometimes you don’t earn very much. you get paid in wages every week by a restaurant.
Minimum wage = the lowest amount allowed by law.
Tips = money that customers leave in addition to the bill.
Working conditions can be good: you can have a nice office and don’t have to travel much.
Basic salary plus commission = a percentage on everything you sell
Bonus = if you sell more than a particular amount in a year.
Fringe benefits = company car
There is a health plan to pay the costs of medical treatment if you get ill.
Pension = money that you get regularly after you stop working.
** Benefits package
Pay and conditions remuneration and compensation are formal words used to talk about
pay and conditions, especially those of senior managers.
Remuneration package and compensation package are used especially in the US to talk
about all the pay and benefits that employees receive.
Share options = Stock options benefits for a senior executive the right to buy the
company’s shares at low prices.
Performance (-related) bonuses = if the manager reaches particular objectives for the
company.
Compensation #2 = also used to talk about money and other benefits that someone receives
if they are forced to leave the organization, perhaps after a disagreement with other
managers in what newspapers call a boardroom row. This money is in the form of a
compensation payment or severance payment.
Compensation package or severance package = if someone also receives benefits with the
compensation/severance payment.
Fat cats = executives with very high pay and benefits, implying they do not deserve this level
of remuneration. (in Britain)
Unit 6 : People and workplaces
Management
White-collar workers
Labour
Manual/Blue-collar workers
3
