Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A. Vocabulary:
Professional Qualities, Skills, and Experiences. Job Benefit and Employment
Procedures.
Strike : a period of time when workers stop work in order to force an employer to agree
to their demands.
Boycott : to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting.
Employment Vocabulary Employee : a person who works for another person or for a
company for wages or a salary.
Employer : a person or company that has people who do work for wages or a salary : a
person or company that has employees.
Worker : a person who does a particular job to earn money. Apprentice – a person who
learns a job or skill by working for a fixed period of time for someone who is very good
at that job or skill.
Job Vacancy for a quarter refers to the number of unfilled posts at the end of the quarter for
which an establishment is actively recruiting employees from outside the establishment. They
exclude:
Positions for which the employees have been appointed but not yet commenced duty; or
Positions open only to internal transfers or promotions.
Job Vacancy Rate for a quarter is defined as the total number of job vacancies divided by the
total demand for manpower at the end of the quarter. The job vacancies for the whole economy is
estimated based on the assumption that private sector establishments with less than 25 employees
have the same vacancy rate as private establishments with 25-49 employees. Estimates on the
total number of unemployed persons are obtained from the Labour Force Survey.
A curriculum vitae is a document used to list one's qualifications and apply for employment. It
works in much the same way as a resume and provides detailed information about an individual's
educational and work history.
Communicating well during your interview is a critical part of the process and will allow you to
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