Career & Business Vocabulary

Internships and Career Development

• Internships provide practical experience and networking opportunities for career development.

Benefits of Experience

• Gaining experience before applying for a full-time job helps you learn essential job-related skills.

Internship vs. Apprenticeship

• Apprenticeships are usually longer, offer structured training, while internships are shorter and sometimes unpaid.

Gaining Company Knowledge

• A job shadowing program helps in gaining knowledge about different departments within a company.

Cover Letter Essentials

• Your cover letter for an internship should include details about your relevant skills and enthusiasm for the role.

Challenges for Interns

• Balancing learning and work responsibilities often poses a challenge for interns.

Purpose of a CV

• A CV should present a summary of your skills, experience, and qualifications.

What to Exclude from a CV

• Avoid including irrelevant personal details like age, weight, and marital status in a professional CV.

Ideal CV Length

• Aim for a CV length of 1-2 pages for most job applications

CV Contact Information

• Your name, phone number, and email address should be in the header or contact details section of your CV.

Career Objective on a CV

• A "career objective" or "personal statement" on a CV should briefly highlight your career goals and what you offer to the employer.

Listing Education on a CV

• List your education on a CV from the most recent to the least recent qualification.

Strong CV Skills

• Being proficient in Microsoft Excel and data analysis is a strong skill to include in a CV.

CV Formatting

• Use clear headings, bullet points, and concise language to format a CV for easy reading.

New Hires

• Twenty new employees have been hired this year

Police Contact

• He insisted on calling the police.

Redundant Staff

• When the factory closed, most of the staff were made redundant.

Missed Train

• The traffic was so heavy that we missed the train.

Job Interview

• During the job interview, they asked many difficult questions.

Business Takeover

• World industries is planning to take over our business.

Receiving Change

• I gave the waiter a $50 note and waited for my change.

Business Investment

• Bob invested money in his brother's business and made a profit.

WTO Acronym

• WTO stands for World Trade Organization.

USP Acronym

• USP stands for Unique Selling Point.

BOGOF Acronym

• BOGOF stands for Buy One Get One Free.

The Opposite of Expensive

• The opposite of "expensive" is cheap.

The Opposite of Easy

• The opposite of "easy" is difficult.

Achievement Definition

• An achievement is something you have succeeded in doing after a lot of effort.

Opposite of Strength

• The opposite of strength is weakness.

Opposite of Weakness

• The opposite of weakness is strength.

Selection Stage

• Shortlisting chooses candidates for the next stage of selection.

Grade Definition

• Grade is a letter or number that shows the quality of a student's work.

Assignments

• Currently 'am doing' two assignments.

Daily Emails

• Once a day, he checks all his emails.

Ireland Visit

• This week a friend from Ireland has stayed over.

Awaiting Contact

• At the moment has been waiting to hear from an IT company to which I sent my CV.

Summer Work

• From time to time she does a bit of work in her father's company during the summer holidays.

University Student

• This person has been a student at this university since they were 19 and/or for three years.

Good Time at University

• There was a great time during my university days.

Early University

• I had a great time the first two years at university, but after that there was a lot of work for months.

Skill Definition

• Skill refers to an ability to do something well, especially because you have practiced it.

Experiencing Knowledge

• Knowledge or skill you get from being in different situations is experience.

Best Collocation: Career

• Make a career choice.

Best Collocation: Long Term

• Reach long term goals.

Best Collocation: Job Preference

• Prefer money rather than job satisfaction.

Best Collocation: Learn

• Learn new skills

Best Collocation: Gain

• Gain experience.

Best Collocation: Send

• Send off a job application.

Job Responsibilities

• What are your current responsibilities?

Measuring performance?

• How does the company measure your performance?

Achievement Identification

• What is your greatest achievement?

Strength inquiry

• What is your greatest strength?

Workshop conditions

• The person insisted on seeing the workshop and conformed to the poor working conditions.

Finance Analysis

• A full investigation of a company's activities and finances is called 'due diligence'.

Measuring Company Debt

• The amount of money that a company owes are liabilities.

Combining company definition

• The process of combining two companies to form a bigger one is a Merger.

Company Assets Example

• Things such as money, buildings, or equipment that a person or company owns are assets.

Annual sales measurement

• Total amount of money coming into a company from sales (usually given as an annual figure) measures turnover.

Production cost drops measure

• Reductions in the cost of producing a unit of a product that occur as the output increases are Economies of Scale.

Business cost variance measures

• Costs that alter directly when the business alters its level of output are Variable Costs, and fixed costs, and liquidity.

Converting Assets to Cash

• Measure of a company's ability to quickly convert assets into cash = Liquidity.

High measure variance

• Change frequently, especially from a high level to a low one and back = Fluctuate.

Steady State Measure

• Stop changing and become steady = Stabilize.

Business Deal

• An agreement that unites two existing companies into one new company has the objective 'A Merger'.

Total Sales

• A measure relating to 'is the percent of total sales in an industry generated by a particular company' is Market Share.

What is a Market Leader

• Relating to 'industry is the company with the largest market share' identifies The market leader.

Industry Purchases

• unlike mergers, or generally not voluntary and involve one company actively purchasing another are associated with Acquisitions.

Unrelated Business

• A merger between two or more companies engaged in unrelated business activities is considered a Conglomerate.

Selling the same products different markets

• A type of merger that occurs between companies that sell the same products but compete in different markets is a market extension.

Merger Synonym

• Synonym for "Merger" = Combination

Merger Antonym

• Antonym for "Merger" = Split

Definition of Acquisition

• The meaning of acquisition is: The purchase of one business enterprise by another.

Definition of merger

• The meaning of merger is any combination of two or more business enterprises into a single enterprise.

Graduation Job Application

• Before graduating, Josef applied for jobs in twenty companies.

Manager Interview

• Manager attended a second interview conducted by a panel of managers.

Master degree

• While he was unemployed, Josef studied for a master's degree.

Arguing with Authority

• He found a new job, but was dismissed after arguing with his boss.

Retirement plans

• He is retired from business and now lives in south of France.

Reasons for Dismissal

• Could you tell me exactly why you were dismissed from OQP?

Difficulty Finding a Factory Job

• After the factory closed, was it difficult to find a new job

Other application areas

• Have you applied for jobs in other companies in the area?

Interview Availability

• Would you be available to attend a second interview next week?

Product manager availability

• How would you feel if we offered you a position as a product manager?

Long work experience

• He has been working on his CV for a long time

Coffee spill

• Mr. Singh has spilt coffee over the interviewer's papers.

Job application

• Sally has written 100 job applications.

More application

• She has been writing job applications since this morning.

Harry compromise

• Harry negotiates and offers a compromise.

Government payment

• Part of income paid to government is named 'taxes'.

Money for transport

• Related questions for this would be:
  • is money for transport and it's Fare.
  • Pension
  • Interest
  • Salary

Money to children per week

• What name is given to this: Money parents give children every week = pocket money.

Money from work per hour or week

• is money from work, usually hourly or weekly is wages.

Money from work monthly

• Money from work, usually monthly, is a salary.

Sociable personality

• Sociable refers to someone who loves meeting people and going to parties.

Adventurous

• Adventurous refers to someone who likes new things and new places, even if they are difficult or dangerous

Well Minded

• "Peter never gets upset or annoyed when things go wrong" describes someone that's considered easy-going.

Money example

• The unwritten rules of an organization are demonstrated by the Monkey Experiment.

CEO Title

• CEO stands for the title Chief Executive Officer.

Product choice

• The correct sentence is: The product

Sort It Questions

• The correct question is: a problem

Work amount

• "The AMOUNT OF WORK THAT A PERSON HAS TO DO" describes workload.

Behaving correctly and rule compliance

• "A SET OF RULES FOR BEHAVING CORRECTLY" would be Etiquette.

Description of the main features of something

• Description here is overview.

Positive definition

• "ENTHUSIASM, DETERMINATION AND LOYALTY" falls under a commitment

Former roles

• "The person who had a job before someone else" is Predecessor.

Final result definition

• "The final result of a process, meeting, etc." = outcome.

How to be successful definition

• "An opinion about how successful someone is" is defined as appraisal, and rated.

Departmental charge

• "Be in charge" as a department is 'of' a department.

Task Involvement

• be involved in - means work is 'In' progress.

Work Responsibilities

• How to apply your work to an area in a work capacity - 'For'

A workers availability to task

• Have responsibility for somebody - "working Under" means work responsibility.

To whom to report and why

• The best preposition for this - Report directly To somebody.

Time to get the Job done.

• Run the business is 'On' a day-to-day basis.

What is the most important area when working

• To take care is 'Of' an area or work.

Staff condition when working

• Staff state = Clean environment

Staff Turnover

• Turnover is High when something is wrong

Skilled Staff

• Staff are Competent

HR title

• HR is related to areas within an organisation as Human Resources.

What is R&D

• R&D is defined as 'Research and development' within and organisation.

Manufacturers last words for a products

• Packaging is the manufacturer's last chance to seduce the customer.

Identical View

• Many products are identical from the consumer's point of view.

Meeting Deadlines

• the main point, where 'Most purchasing decisions are made' is 'Sale View'.

Design Issues

• "The principal problem is a lack of" Communication, between the people involved in in the design and development process

Skilled Experts

• Special mention of a area within a project "There are different groups of experts, all working in their own specialized" Field.

Consumer Neglect

• Production people know nothing about consumer needs. This can also involve the 'Sales and View' fields.

Deal type

• People with "The manufacturing people deal with the technical" Issues as and when they arise. This can also involve different people in the Sales view as a technical field.

A Work Task

• Our task forces can deliver an optimal solution in one week, sometimes less. This action can be linked other team needs and sales, to build a new product view

Match the design verb and the noun to make a better product

• What verb could be used to 'generate'?
• We could generate new ideas in focus groups
• What verb could be used to 'launch'?
• We could launch "the product to the market" specification
• What verb could be used to 'draw up'?
• We could draw up "Specifications for the product" documentation
• What verb could be used to 'conduct?
• We could conduct "market studes" research projects.
• What verb could be used to 'draw'?
• We could draw"sketches to build mockups" models
• What verb could be used to 'go into'?
• We could go into "production on a large scale",
• What verb could be used to 'test'?
• We may test "production on a large scale',

Product Features

• In product tests we should define The thing that makes a product special or different from others = USP (unique selling point)
• This test also defines, An Important "Feature" something.

New Careers

• The best outcome, to MAKE A CAREER, means we have a " Choice" in the matter of career creation.

Goals

• An advantage that you get from "something" = benefit

Long Term employment and goals

• Meaning, "the right phrase", we should REACH"a goal".

Phrase ending

• The right end phrase for "PREFER MONEY RATHER THAN JOB = satisfaction".

Learning

• What verb applies when you say LEARN" a skill"? As the company expects to see gained as employment continues.

Employment Phrase.

• The right employment phrase reads "SEND OFF A JOB" means one is ready for application.

Gap Year

• The right term to 'APPLY FOR' relates to GAP YEAR placement.

Words with similar objectives

• Line with the words which are similar to GOAL = target

Skill check

• Knowledge, you need to be able to do something = Know-how

How to apply a skill

• Information that someone knows "Knowledge".

Skill to know

• The best action "An ability to do smth" is skill.

Company back ground

• Type of education background can also refer to " the company".. background

Make an agreement

• Place, take, fill , An order What type of nouns are correct for the next action What type of phrases apply to these actions:

Negotiating a agreement

• what noun applies to negotiating to State what is "brought down". A price
• How to grant, apply and ask = a discount
• How it will improve and sell. = the benefits
• What order is agreed by the company" a proposal
• We are the police; can we make an arrest? We require a deposit.
• what applies open action is used on = negotiation

Assets

• The full investigation of a company's activities and finances- due diligence
• The amount of money that a company owes- liabilities
• Combining two companies to form a bigger one- merger
• the actions of companies = merger

What happens with money

• We can change money by "The process of combining two companies to form a bigger one" = assets
• Turnover. This requires the accurate and precise method of money = assets.

Low amount of money

• the way to manage change with money = fluctuate
• If this is going against us = can we stabalize?

If we are ready

• ready for problems = you will come

City living conditions

• You have had your day living at the capital " If only we didn't live".

Spare time

• Having the opportunity to take on new task or sport? "If I had / would take up"
• What new tasks or changes will take place with people or animals? "The police has warned"
• They don't want to work now" the factory factory working are "strike "

The Salary

• Are they giving me a salary if it is high and " They haven't been offered"

Pension Savings

• How much money have you saved for your retirement? Now is a great time to discuss these options
• have you saved?
• have you been saved?
• saved?
• you saved- all have correct value, but can you do it in your capacity.

Job role applications

• New opportunities may arise. Apply here for what you know " i have applied for a new job", where new connections may rise and appear new"has ben elected", where someone should = has been elected" "new career opportunities maybe discussed to determine applicant status" = career List which we provide = CV,

People

• How to determine "job status", can it all be measured as "retired", "qualified" or "redundant"?
• or just about a simple CV and their past career plans" . A way to measure "background"...

Test your knowledge of vocabulary related to career development, mergers, and acquisitions. Questions cover completing sentences and understanding business terms.