The English words for jobs, offices, meetings, pay and careers, each with its CEFR level.
For anyone who uses English at work or is looking for a job in English.
Work vocabulary sits higher than most topics: more than half of these words are B1 or B2. They are the words in job adverts, contracts and meetings, where a guess can cost more than it would in a shop.
Professionals who write emails and join meetings in English, and job seekers preparing a CV or an interview.
Group the words by situation: finding a job (application, interview, candidate), doing it (deadline, meeting, report), and leaving it (resign, retire, redundant). Use each new word in a sentence about your own job, because that is the sentence you will need.
Are you an accountant?
They have an agenda.
Fill in the application.
Other charges may apply.
I forgot my appointment.
Here is my assistant.
I received my bonus.
My boss told me to finish the report today.
This branch employs 20 associates.
Our budget was cut.
Take my business card.
Are you a candidate?
You deserve career success.
My client is innocent.
This is my colleague.
I commute by train.
We have a company.
How was the conference?
They read the contract.
The customer is king.
When is the deadline?
Deal with him yourself.
The fire department arrived.
Are you the director?
We did our duty.
I earn $300 a day.
They employ temporary workers.
Is this your employee?
My employer is very rich.
No outside employment was allowed.
Hải is an engineer.
Are you an entrepreneur?
I have some experience.
His firm opened in 2005.
Did you call headquarters?
Hire a new team.
Income tax is progressive.
That industry rapidly disappeared.
Cut off this interview.
She committed invoice fraud.
The job never ends.
We called our lawyer.
The company lacks leadership.
I know your manager.
She works in marketing.
When are we meeting?
They refuse to negotiate.
The negotiation is off.
He became a nurse.
What is your current occupation?
Go to the office.
Overtime is rare here.
I could lose my pension.
They finished the presentation.
The profession is complex.
Profit comes before people.
The project began terribly.
We deserve a promotion.
We agreed to the plan without qualification.
My sister is a receptionist.
Hey, the new recruit this time seems really cute.
That sentence is redundant.
We wrote the report.
I offered to resign.
That is your responsibility.
You should just retire.
They reduced his salary.
Our secretary rarely laughed.
Things started to shift.
I admire your skill.
Is your staff ready?
He went on strike.
We choose this supplier.
The task is simple.
You are the teacher.
The better team won.
Do you believe in teamwork?
Are you a trainee?
You found yourselves unemployed.
Does unemployment worry you?
I decided to volunteer.
The wage for this job is very low.
We did our work.
Exit the toxic workplace.
Some example sentences come from the Tatoeba Project (tatoeba.org), CC BY 2.0 FR. The rest were written for MindDory. Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.
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