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Career vocabulary 1
career vocabulary words unit 1
Term | Definition |
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benefits | employer provided advantages such as health insurance, sick leave etc. |
career path | plan for an employees step by step advancement in a company |
competition | rivalry among those who are attempting to achieve the same goal |
contract | a verbal or written agreement between two or more people or groups of people |
discrimination | unfair treatment because of race, sex, color, religion, or age |
entrepreneur | a person who sets up and runs his or her own business |
executive | high ranking employee who manages the affairs of a department in a company |
human resources | the department that screens job applicants and manages employee records. |
income | the money a person receives from work or investments |
internship | an on the job learning and training program |
job review | an evaluation of an employee's work by an employer |
journeyman | a skilled worker who has mastered a trade |
mentor | an experienced person who helps and advises an inexperienced person |
minimum wage | the lowest hourly pay rate that a business can legally pay it's workers |
pension | a regular payment to a retired person by a former employer |