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WorksheetsEmployment and Career Vocabulary Worksheet (Grade 13)
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
The unemployment rate: What does this term mean?
The number of people retiring each year
The percentage of people who are not working but are available for work
The number of new jobs created
The percentage of people working part-time
The increasing unemployment rate: This refers to:
A decrease in joblessness
A stable unemployment situation
A rising number of people who cannot find jobs
A rise in salaries
Career prospects: This term means:
The risk of losing a job
The chances of getting promotion or better job opportunities in the future
A temporary job
Job dissatisfaction
Career advancement / development / progression: This refers to:
Staying in the same job position for years
Improving professional status or moving to higher positions
Moving to a different city
Quitting a job
Career ladder / career path: This phrase means:
A list of job titles in a company
The structured sequence of positions through which a person can progress
A company’s organizational chart
Training opportunities
Move up the career ladder: This means:
Change career
Get promoted or reach higher positions in a profession
Start a business
Work fewer hours
Be on the rise: This expression means:
Becoming less common
Decreasing slowly
Increasing or growing
Staying unchanged
Jobless / unemployed: This term refers to:
People with two jobs
People who work part-time
People who have no job
People who quit voluntarily
Increase job/employment opportunities: This means:
Reduce job positions
Create more chances for people to find work
Encourage early retirement
Manual jobs / blue-collar jobs: These are jobs that:
Require complex math knowledge
Involve physical labour
Involve working from home
Require a university degree
Physically demanding jobs: This term means:
Jobs with low salary
Jobs requiring strong physical effort
Jobs done in offices
Jobs requiring language skills
White-collar jobs: These are jobs that:
Require manual labour
Are mainly intellectual or office-based
Take place outdoors
Require physical strength
Blue-collar workers: This term refers to:
Office workers
Manual labour workers
Managers
Freelancers
White-collar workers: These are:
Workers in agriculture
Office-based or non-manual workers
Part-time workers
Remote workers
Find/obtain/gain/secure a job: These verbs mean:
Lose a job
Make a job advertisement
Successfully get employment
Reject job offers
Employment prospects: This expression means:
The likelihood of being fired
Future career opportunities available to someone
Negative work conditions
Working overtime
Job security: This means:
The risk of layoffs
The feeling of safety when commuting to work
The stability of having a job that is not easily lost
The security guards at a workplace
Acquire/gain generic skills: This refers to obtaining:
Very specific technical knowledge
Skills like teamwork, communication, and leadership
Skills used only in science
Skills not needed in the workplace
Part-time job: This means:
A job with no salary
A job requiring fewer hours than full-time work
A job that lasts for one day
A job for senior workers only
Accumulate hands-on/practical experience: This means:
Learn only theory
Gain real-life working experience
Work from home
Avoid fieldwork
Give financial support/aid: This means:
Cut someone’s salary
Provide money to help someone
Give free housing
Offer job training
Place a financial burden on someone: This means:
Help someone save money
Cause someone to spend a lot of money
Reduce living costs
Create job opportunities
Brain drain: This refers to:
Losing job motivation
The movement of highly skilled workers to richer countries
The training of inexperienced workers
Temporary migration
Highly qualified workforce: This term means:
Workers with limited education
Workers with advanced skills and high expertise
Workers in rural areas
Young workers with no experience
Migrate to somewhere: This means:
Stay permanently in one area
Move to another place (within or outside a country)
Change jobs
Visit a place briefly
Immigrate from ... to ...: This means:
Leave a country for a short visit
Move into a new country from another country to live there
Change cities within the same country for vacation
Relocate temporarily for a work trip
This refers to:
Travel for vacation
Enter and settle in a new country from another one
Take a short trip
Study abroad temporarily
Immigrants — These are people who:
Work part-time abroad
Travel for tourism
Move permanently to a new country
Volunteer in another country
Immigration — This term means:
The action of leaving a country
The act of entering and settling in a new country
Temporary travel
Changing careers
Developed countries — These are:
Nations with high income and advanced economic systems
Nations with extreme poverty
Nations with unstable governments
Countries that rely only on farming
Developing countries — This term refers to:
Economically advanced countries
Countries transitioning toward industrialization but not yet fully developed
Countries with the highest GDP
Countries with no population growth
Underdeveloped countries — These are countries that:
Have strong technological advancement
Are extremely poor with weak economic structures
Have high job security
Attract highly skilled workers
Government scholarship — This refers to:
A loan that needs to be repaid
Financial support from the government for study
A reward after graduation
A salary bonus
Job hopping / job switching — This means:
Staying in the same company for decades
Changing jobs frequently
Being unemployed
Working two jobs at once
Job hoppers — These are people who:
Avoid working
Change jobs often
Have multiple degrees
Retire early
