Hunting for a job

CHOOSING A CAREER

Active Vocabulary 2012

Job / work / task / labour / toil

Business / profession / employment

Occupation / career / line / trade

What do you do for a living? / What are you? / What are you by profession? / What do you do?/

What line of business are you in?

To take up / to follow a career / to take up smth as a career

To consider something as a career

To make a career

To be still undecided as to one’s future career

To be still in two minds

To be very much into smth

To appeal to smb / to attract smb

To make / to arrive at / to come to / to reach a decision / to decide on (against) smth /

to make up one’s mind

To make / take a choice

To regret one’s choice

To miss one’s vocation

To be cut out for

To have a vocation for

To follow in smb’s footsteps

To be in one’s line

To go in for something

To commit oneself to one’s family

To provide for a family

To achieve / accomplish / complete / finish

Climbing up the ladder of success

The world is one’s oyster

To make one’s way in the world

To get on in life / in the world

To work one’s way up from the bottom

To make one’s way up to the top

To land one’s dream job

To achieve success / to succeed / to be a success

Skills and Qualities

What is your professional, educational background?

To have a background

To have the right qualifications for the job

Skills: administrative, communication, critical and creative thinking, interpersonal, investigation, language, listening, organisational, problem-solving, secretarial

Leadership qualities

Bossy / domineering / lordly / overbearing

Competence for / as / in smth

To be competent at / as / in smth

To have experience for / of doing smth

To be experienced in (doing) smth

To be skilled in / at smth

To be skilful with smth; Ant: unskilful

To be an expert at / in / on smth

To be good at

To be computer literate, to work with / on a computer

To use / operate a computer

To pick smth up

To develop / improve / refine one’s skills

Hunting for a job

Job hunter / job seeker

Job centre / employment agency

Unemployed / jobless / out of a job / between jobs

To be on unemployment benefit / on the dole

To seek employment / to look for a job / to hunt for a job

To look through the advertisement page

To advertise / make known / publicise

To advertise for smth / smb, to advertise smth on TV, in a paper

To fill a vacancy / opening; Ant: to free a vacancy for smb

To apply for a post

Applicants for a job

To hire / employ for a job/ take smb on / engage / recruit

To be accepted onto a course

To take on a job

To take up a job / a new appointment

To send in, to accept; Ant: to turn down / reject an application

To turn smb down

To refuse point-blank

To set a trial period of one month

To take a (training) course

An interview

To attend / to sit an interview

Curriculum Vitae (CV) / Resume

To write a letter of application / covering letter

Recommendation letters

To provide a good reference for smb

Referees

Interviewee, interviewer

To be shortlisted for smth, to shortlist smb

To schedule an interview with smb

To have an appointment for an interview

To fill in an application form

Appearance counts

Not to sell oneself short

To turn /to use smth to one’s advantage

To stack up against / stand out from the other applicants

To notify about the decision

Personnel department

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