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Employment Unit

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Application
a form used to apply for a job
Attitude
A feeling or opinion about something or someone; a mental position with regard to a state (a "negative" or "positive" attitude)
Benefits
Things that employers may offer you in addition to your wages; for example, health insurance, annual or sick leave, holidays, paid vacation, parking space or monthly reimbursement for parking space area, mileage for travel, and tuition reimbursement
Career
A profession for which one trains; a job or series of job that you do during your working life He wants a career in social work.
Classified Ads/Classified Section/Classifieds
Advertisements in a newspaper, magazine, or online, regarding job opportunities; the section of a newspaper, magazine or Web site devoted to advertisements about job opportunities
Deductions
An amount of money taken from your paycheck every payday (usually for things such as federal and state income taxes, employment taxes, social security taxes, workers compensation coverage, and health insurance payments)
Experience
Knowledge or skill that one gets from doing, seeing or feeling something; the experience a person already has of working
Goal
Aim or purpose; the end toward which effort is directed
Gross Wages
The total amount of your pay or wages before any deductions are taken out of your paycheck
Interest
The desire to learn about and/or be involved in a particular field or topic; activities that you enjoy doing or subjects that you like to learn about and spend time studying
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
A department of the U.S. government that collects taxes
Job
Employment; the regular work a person does to earn money; a specific task or piece of work; a specific task or project that is one's responsibility
Net Wages
The amount of pay or wages you take home after all your deductions are taken out of your paycheck
Network/Networking
Using friends, family, and people in organizations that you know to help you find a job
Occupation
A person's job
Opportunity
The chance to do something you want to do, advance, or progress; the chance to get a job
Qualifications
An ability, characteristic or experience that makes you suitable for a particular job or activity
Reference
A person who knows you and is willing to describe and usually praise you to support you when you are trying to get a job; a statement as to a person's character or ability
Resume
A short written description of your education, qualifications, and previous employment, which you send to an employer when you are trying to get a job
Skill
The ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have practiced it
Tax/Taxes
An amount of money that is paid to the government, which is based on your income
Value
How important or useful something is; "value" can be used to describe something's basic worth (how important or useful people find it) or monetary worth (how much something costs)
Assessment
Evaluation of one's abilities
Personnel Officer
Manager responsible for recruitment, training and welfare of personnel (employees)
Promotion
Advancement in rank or a position in a company
Unemployment Benefits
Payments made by the state to an unemployed person
Strength
Strong characteristic or particular ability
Weakness
A lack of ability or a shortcoming in character
Retire
Leave employment because of age
Resign
To Leave a job voluntarily
Strike
To go on strike: to stop working in protest against something
Vacancy
A job or professional position to be filled by an employer
Notice
Advance warning of intention to leave one's job -to give or hand in one's resignation
Personnel
People who work for a firm or company (employees)
Interview
Oral examination of a candidate for employment
Recruit
Look for and hire personnel to fill a job
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