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Business vocabulary in use
Work and jobs
A  what do you do?
To find out what someone’s job is you say ‘ what do you do’ ,Here, Kerstin talks about her job：“ I work for a large European car maker. I work on car design ,in fact ,I run the design department and I manage a team of designers： 20 people work under me. It’s very interesting , One of my main responsibilities is to make sure that new model designs are finished on time. I’m also in charge of design budgets.
I deal with a lot of different people in the company.  I’m responsible for co-ordination between design and production， I work with managers at our manufacturing plants.

Note:
In charge of     +noun or verb +ing
Responsible for +noun or verb +ing
Responsibility + infinitive or + ing
One of my responsibilities is to make sure ……
One of my responsibilities is making sure……..

! you can’t say I’m a responsible

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B  Word combinations with ‘Work’

If you work or have work, you have a job. But you don’t say that someone has a work. Work is also the place where you do your job
Here are some phrases with ‘ work’.
1.
Hi, I’m frank, I work in a bank in New York City. I leaver for work at 7.30 every morning
2.
I go to work by train and subway
3.
I got to/arrive at work at about nine
4.
I’m usually at work till six
5.
Luckily, I don’t get ill very much. So I’m not often off work

The economy is growing fast and more people are in work than ever before. The percentage of people out of work has fallen to its lowest level for 30 years.

! You don’t say  ,for example , I’m at the work or I’m going to the work

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C  Types of job and types of Work

        A full-time job is for the whole of the normal working week; a part-time job is for less time than that. You say that someone works full-time or part-time.
        A permanent job does not finish after a fixed period; a temporary job finished after a fixed period. You talk about temporary work and permanent work

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   Business vocabulary in use
  Work and jobs

B  Word combinations with ‘Work’

If you work or have work, you have a job. But you don’t say that someone has a work.  Work is also the place where you do your job

Here are some phrases with ‘ work’.

1.      Hi, I’m frank, I work in a bank in New York City. I leaver for work at 7.30 every morning

2.      I go to work by train and subway

3.      I got to/arrive at work at about nine

4.      I’m usually at work till six

5.      Luckily, I don’t get ill very much. So I’m not often off work
The economy is growing fast and more people are in work than ever before. The percentage of people out of work has fallen to its lowest level for 30 years.
! You don’t say  ,for example , I’m at the work or I’m going to the work

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C  Types of job and types of Work

        A full-time job is for the whole of the normal working week; a part-time job is for less time than that. You say that someone works full-time or part-time.
        A permanent job does not finish after a fixed period; a temporary job finished after a fixed period. You talk about temporary work and permanent work

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Ways of working
A  Old and new ways
I’m an office worker in an insurance company. It’s a nine-to-five job with regular working hours. The work isn’t very interesting, but I like to be able to go home at a reasonable time.
We all have to clock in and clock out every day. In this company, even the managers have to, which is unusual!

Note : you also say clock on and clock off.

I’m in computer programming. There’s a system of flexitime (AmE: flextime BrE: flexitime ) in my company, which means we can work when we want, within certain limits, we can start at any time before eleven, and finish as early as three , as long as we do enough hours each month. It’s ideal for me as I have two young children.
I work in a car plant, I work in shift. I may be on the day shift one week and the night shift the next week. It’s difficult changing from one shift to another. When I change shifts, I have problems changing to a new routine for sleeping and eating.

I’m a commercial artist in an advertising agency. I work in a big city, but I prefer living in the country, so I commute to work every day, like thousands of other commuters. Working from home using a computer and the internet is becoming more and more popular, and the agency is introducing this: it’s called teleworking or telecommuting .But I like going into the office and working with other people around me.

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B  Nice work if you can get it

   All these words are used in front of “job” and “work”

1. satisfying , stimulating , fascinating , exciting : the work is interesting and gives you positive feelings

2. dull, boring, uninteresting, unstimulating , the work is not interesting

3. repetitive, routine, the work involves doing the same things again and again

4. tiring, tough, hard, demanding, the work is difficult and makes you tired .

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C Nature of work

My work involves …..

1.      + noun

Human contact ( 注意哦，昨天学到的是contract,不一样哦)

Long hours

Team work

2.      + -ing

Solving problems

Travelling a lot

Dealing with customers

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Over to you

If you work…..
Do you have a nine-to-five job?
Do you have clock on and off ?  Is there a flexitime system in your organization?
Are there people who do shiftwork in your company?
Could you do your job working from home? If so , would you like to?

If you don’t work…..
What sort of working hours would you like to have if you worked?
Would you like to work from home?

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Recruitment and selection

A Recruitment

The process of finding people for particular job is recruitment or , especially in American English , hiring , Someone who has been recruited is a recruit or ,in American English ,a hire. The company employs or hires them ; they join the company ., A company may recruit employees directly or use outside recruiters, recruitment agencies or employment agencies , outside specialists called headhunters may be called on to headhunt people for very important jobs, persuading them to leave the organizations they already work for, this process is called headhunting .

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B Applying for a job

Tony is a van driver, but he was fed up with long trips. He looked in the situations vacant pages of his local newspaper, where a local supermarket was advertising for van drivers for a new delivery service. He applied for the job by completing an application form and sending it in

Harry is a building engineer, he saw a job in the appointments pages of one national papers, he made an application, sending in his CV (curriculum vitae-the ‘story’ of his working life) and a covering letter explaining why he wanted the job and why he was the right person for it

Note: situation, post, and position are formal words often used in job advertisements and applications

BrE：CV ； AmE：resume

BrE：covering letter ； AmE：cover letter



Cover Letter..

求职信

一般来说，英文的求职信（cover letter）和简历(CV)是分开写的，你的工作经历是写在简历里的，求职信里尽量简明扼要地把你的优势凸显出来，以及你的联系方式等重要信息

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C Selection procedures
Dagmar Schmidt is the head of recruitment at a German telecommunications company, she talks about the selection process, the methods that the company use to recruit people;
We advertise in national newspapers, we look at the backgrounds of applications; their experience of different jobs and their educational qualifications. We don’t ask for handwritten letters of application as people usually apply by email; handwritten analysis belong to the 19th century.
We invite the most interesting candidates to a group discussion. Then we have individual interviews with candidate. We also ask the candidates to do written psychometric tests to assess their intelligence and personality.
After this, we shortlist three or four candidates. We check their references by writing to their referees: previous employers or teachers that candidates have named in their applications. If the references are ok, we ask the candidates to come back for more interviews, finally, we offer the job to someone, and if they turn it down we have to think again, if they accept it , we hire them, we only appoint someone if we find the right person.

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D Over to you：
If you work …..
How did you get your job? Was it advertised? Were you interviewed for it?
Was the selection process very long ?

If you don’t work …..
Have you applied for any jobs? Were you interviewed? How did it go? What’s the usual process for getting you first job in your country?

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pay and benefits
A wages, salary and benefits
1. my name’s Luigi and I’m a hotel manager in Venice. I get paid a salary every month. In summer we’re very busy, so we work a lot of extra hours, or overtime; the money for this is quite good. Working in a hotel, we also get nice perks, for example free meals!
2. I’m Ivan and I work as a waiter in Prague. I like my job even if I don’t earn very much: I get paid wages every week by the restaurant.. we get the minimum wage: the lowest amount allowed by law. But we also get trips, money that customers leave for us in addition to the bill, some tourists are very generous
3. I’m Catherine and I’m a saleswoman based in paris. I get a basic salary , plus commission: a percentage on everything I sell. If I sell more than a particular amount in a year , I also get extra money – a bonus , which is nice , there are some good fringe benefits with this job: I get a company car , and they make payments for my pension , money that I’ll get regularly after I stop working , all that makes a good benefits package.

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B compensation1
My name’s Alan. I’m a specialist in pay and benefits. Compensation and remuneration are formal words used to talk about pay and benefits, especially those of senior managers Compensation package and remuneration package are used especially in the US to talk about the pay and benefits that employees receive. For a senior executive, this may include share options（BrE）or stock options (AmE) :the right to buy the company’s shares at low prices. (See Unit 36 ) There may be performance-related bonuses if the manager reaches particular objectives for the company

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C compensation2
Compensation is also used to talk about money and other benefits that a senior manager (or any employee) receives if they are forced to leave the organization , perhaps after a boardroom row , this money is in the form of a compensation payment , or severance payment , if the manager also receives benefits ,the payment and the benefits form a severance  package
In Britain, executive with very high pay and good benefits may be referred to as fat cats, implying that they do not deserve this level of remuneration

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D over to you
Do you think top executives are too highly paid? or do they deserve what they earn?