Summary Vocabulary

Business English:
Unit 1:
- Work and jobs:
o What do you do:
 Work for
 Work on  to spend time preparing/improving something
 I run  leading/ running a department
 I manage  to succeed in doing/ dealing with something
 Work under  function below someone
 Responsibilities  need to make sure that things are done
 In charge of/ Responsible for  responsible for something/ someone
 Deal with  you have to face somethings
 Work with  need to work with other people

o Word combination with ‘work’:
 Have work  having a job/ something you do/
 Work  place where you do your job
 In work  people who have a job
 Out of work  without a job
 For work
 Go to work  transport to your work
 Get to/ arrive at
 At work  you’re at the place itself
 Time off work  away from work due to an illness

o Types of job and types of work:
 Full-time job  normal working week, around 38h a week
 Part time job  less working hours, around 20h a week
 Permanent job/work  does not finishes after a fixed period
 Temporary job/work  finishes after a fixed period
Unit 2:
- Ways of working:
o Working hours:
 Office worker  person who do their jo in an office
 Nine-to-five  working a whole day
 Working hours  the time you work
 Swipe card  most of the time to have access to a room/office
 Flexitime  work when you want
 Shifts  doing your job for a period of time in a day or on weekly basis
 Clock on  register your time when you start
 Clock off  register your time when you’re done with working
 Day shift  you work during the day
 Night shift  you work at night
 Overtime  working more hours than usual for more money
 Commute  to make the same journey regularly between home-work
 Work from home  working at home

,  Commuters  someone who travels between work and home
 Teleworking/ telecommuting  from home, using the computer +
phone to communicate with other people

o Nice work if you get it:
 These words are used in front of job + work
 Satisfying – stimulating – fascinating – exciting  gives you
positive feelings
 Dull – boring – uninteresting – unstimulating  not interesting
 Repetitive – routine  involves doing the same things again
 Tiring – tough – hard – demanding  difficult + makes you
tired

Unit 3:
- Recruitment and selection:
o Recruitment:
 Recruitment – hiring  finding people for particular jobs
 Recruit/ hire  people who persuade others to work for the company
 Employs/ hires  hires someone to do your work
 Join  to connect
 Recruitment agencies/ employment agencies
 that represents one group of people when dealing with
another group
 Headhunters  outside specialists
 Headhunted - headhunting key people, they are needed

o Applying for a job:
 Situations vacant  where you can find/apply for jobs
 Applied for  give you up as a candidate
 Application form  form you fill in to apply for a job
 Jobs website  online platform about the jobs available
 Made an application  given yourself up as a candidate
 CV (curriculum vitae)/ resume  work experience
 Covering letter  a letter that covers your life

o Selection procedures:
 Selection process  assessing candidates to narrow down the pool of
applicants
 Backgrounds  what experience they have
 Applicants  a person who requests a job
 Experience  knowledge of seeing/ doing things
 Qualifications  showing that you have finished a training/ study
 Candidates  person who is competing for a job
 Group discussion  exchange of views between a group
 Interviews  a meeting where they ask questions
 Psychometric tests  measure an individual’s psychological attributes
 Shortlist  putting someone on a list

,  References  a mention of something
 Referees  previous employers
 Offer  if they like to do something
 Turn it down  not taking the job offer
 Job offers  an offer from an employer to give you a job
 Accept  agree
 Appoint nominate, benoemen

Unit 4:
- Skills and qualifications:
o Education and training:
 Graduates  left university
 Paper qualifications  paper that you have finished a course
 Qualifications in the knowledge that makes someone suitable
 Work experience  the experience that someone already has of
working
 Train… for  teach a particular skill
 Graduated from – With a degree in  successfully succeeded a course
 Training in – Train as  the process of developing skills
 Qualify as  have the requirements
 In-house training  course within the company
 Management development  process of improving the skills
 Go on courses  study to get more knowledge
 acquire experience  getting knowledge through doing things

o Skilled and unskilled:
 Skill  something you are good at
 Highly skilled someone with advanced knowledge
 Skilled  having abilities to do an activity
 Semi-skilled  still need some training
 Unskilled  not having a special skill

o The right person:
 Methodical/ Systematic/ Organized  working in a planned way
 Computer-literate  good with computers
 Numerate  good with numbers
 Motivated  to do well in their job
 Talented  good at what they do
 Self-starters/Proactive/ Self-motivated/ Self-driven  good at working
on their own
 Team players  who work well with others

Unit 5:
- Pay and benefits:
o Wages, salary and benefits:
 Salary  the amount of money someone get paid
 Overtime  working extra hours