Business vocabulary 2

a- Career stages

get a junior position / be in a junior position:
have a job with few responsibilities or power which usually involves doing mainly unskilled jobs

...She left school with no qualification so was lucky to get a junior position in an IT firm.

get work experience / go on work experience:
a short-term (often unpaid) job that young people or students take so that they can get experience of working in an office or company

...He's got some work experience at a newspaper over the summer. He hopes it will help him get a job in journalism when he graduates.
...1-the experience that a person already has of working:Please list your educational qualifications and work experience.
...2-a period of time in which a student temporarily works for an employer to gain experience:Many firms understand that giving work experience to students from colleges and schools will benefit everyone in the long term.

get a permanent position / get a permanent contract / be made permanent:
have long-term employment with a company

...After working on 3 short-term contracts they finally made him permanent last week.
...Are you looking for a temporary or a permanent job?

be promoted / get promoted / get a promotion: move further up in a company to a more senior role. NOTE: The opposite is demote.

...She's delighted. She got the promotion. She's a manager now.
...If I'm not promoted within the next two years, I'm going to change jobs.
...She's just been promoted to senior sales rep.
...If Coventry City win this match, they'll be promoted to the Premier League.
...Did Steve get/Was Steve given the promotion he wanted?
...She was promoted to division manager last year
...She's been recommended for (a) promotion.

retire: stop working when you are old.

...She worked for years as a teacher but now she has retired. She spends most of her time with her grandchildren.

b-Employee relations

a union:
an organisation which employees (but not usually managers) can belong to. A union uses its strength, by having a lot of members, to talk to management to try to improve pay and working conditions for employees

...The unions are in discussions with the government about how the anti-smoking laws will affect workers in pubs and restaurants.

strike / go on strike:
refuse to continue working because of a disagreement with an employer about working conditions, pay or job losses etc.

The unions threatened to strike if the management don't offer a better pay deal.

work-to-rule:
when workers carefully obey all the rules and instructions given to them about their jobs, but don't do anything extra or outside those rules (as they usually do).

They're not going on strike but are going to work-to-rule if the management decides to go ahead with the job cuts.

c-Types of work and ways of working

a freelancer: a person who does short pieces of work for different organisations rather than being continuously employed by one company

We'll get some freelancers in to help us with this project so that we'll make the deadline.

a job for life:
working for the same company all your working life.

The days of having a job for life are over now. Most people work for 8 - 10 companies during their working life.

in-house:
work that is done inside a company, rather than it being out-sourced.

We still produce the company newsletter in-house but we out-sourced the printing. It's much cheaper than doing the printing ourselves.

out-source:
work that is done for one company by another one rather than it being done in-house.

The company decided to out-source its IT so that it could concentrate on its key business area – marketing.

Vocabulary

a right handful :someone who is difficult to manage or control

turned up : arrived

took him to task about it : talked to him about it, blamed him for it or gave him into trouble about it

asserting your authority : showing that you have power

notes : written details about a lecture or lesson that you use to help you study or remember

in the process : while doing something else